# When did you see a cockroach for the last time?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [December 5, 2023, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-see-a-cockroach-for-the-last-time/994128 "2023-12-05T09:48:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-see-a-cockroach-for-the-last-time/994128/61 "2023-12-09T22:35:13Z")

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> [@JaneDoe42](#):
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> We live in the desert. It is too hot for roaches.

Really? Tucson is not in the desert? Because that is where I saw an enormous one.

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-see-a-cockroach-for-the-last-time/994128/62 "2023-12-09T22:43:34Z")

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Never saw one in exurban California growing up but when I lived in San Francisco fuck yes. I am cool with almost all insects but NOT ROACHES. Give me the shivers and make my gorge rise. It’s been forty years since I’ve moved out the City and nary a sighting since.

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-see-a-cockroach-for-the-last-time/994128/63 "2023-12-09T22:44:12Z")

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I was only stationed in Tucson for 13 months back in the 70’s but I don’t remember seeing them there. Only in Hawaii and California, but that was pre-80’s.

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