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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

crickets? millipedes? isopods???
is this what living in the rest of the world is like?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Rest of the world compared to where? All those things can be found just about everywhere

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not sure where you live, but in central Europe (I live in Germany) you definitely have spiders, harvestmen, mites, millipedes, isopods, slugs, beetles, cockroaches (in my case cute little wood cockroaches), moths (their larvae at least) living inside and around your house. Maybe not directly inside your living room dancing on the table. Although there are some cockroaches that do run around everywhere in my home. But have a look around in your cellar, garage, any spaces that aren't frequently heated or where you store food and you'll find them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we have spiders and harvestmen in abundance, but the rest is not something you will see in a house here.

maybe you'd see isopods in a garage because they caught a ride on something you brought in from the garden, but there's not much for them to eat so you'd likely see them dead not long after..

I have never in my life heard of people having millipedes, slugs, beetles, or cockroaches in their house in sweden, that makes it sound like your homes are absolutely filthy for them to have stuff to eat. Also pretty sure the scandinavian peninsula just doesn't have cockroaches, i have yet to see one in real life outside of captivity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Except that insects don't really like filth especially cockroaches. That's all stigma.

But no you absolutely have critters around you just don't acknowledge lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Define filth. What we call spoiled food is great for basically all the critters entering our houses. That's where the stigma comes from - if you don't really clean your kitchen and leave scraps and crumbs in narrow spaces, that's where they will feast.

While I've yet to see cockroaches in the wild in Germany, ants inside the house can be prevented by just cleaning regularly (and not even obsessively).

It's not like lice for example, that really don't care how often you wash yourself and infect anyone with long enough hair.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

bro i'm not saying we don't have bugs, i'm saying those bugs are all spiders and flies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

OP's house:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Depends on where your house is, and if it's urban or rural.