closed shelter or a cockroaches infested apartment?

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I'd take the apartment then call the exterminator.

Living at close quarters with a group of people is not an option I could consider at any time.

It's unlikely the roaches would invade my privacy or disturb my peace whereas I'd have to wave both of them goodbye in a shelter.

The cockroach apartment any day. Not only would I cook the cockroaches---there'd also be noöne I'd have to share them with.

I'd take the closed shelter. Ten days of confinement and frequent human contact isn't something I can't handle through use of meditation. It's actually been the only thing keeping me together while living in close proximity with my current roommate for the last year+.

I read that cockroaches taste bad compared to other insects; is that true?

This is only me personally, but for me literally anything is better than roaches. I don't know that this would be the best choice practically, but roaches are definitely in my top five things that I would do just about anything to avoid list. They're so putrid!

I would imagine they would taste bad, based on the nature of what they themselves eat...... I did once deliberately step on one of those large ones to kill it, and this whitish gunge oozed out it that smelled indescribably bad!

Seriously, that one little bug had this stuff in it that smelled like everything rotting in every dumpster you ever stood downwind of. I never crushed one again after that. They stink.

I'd still choose the apartment though -- I just wouldn't crush them or eat them.

^ That's disgusting!! I regret reading that. Now I'm imagining that stuff and its smell. Yuk!! I've never purposely squashed a cockroach because the juice and stuff that come out of the body are gross!

I think live cockroaches also have some bad smell, too. Hard to describe - a bit like moldy-crawlspace-like smell but it's not strong enough to be noticed unless you try to smell it. They also eat soft plastic if food is stuck on it. So you had better not eat them.

Sorry about that, jk1 -- reading back my own post, I'm kind of disgusted all over again too; I still remember the smell, hahahah!

Poor little boogers; being born smelly bugs nobody likes! But yeah -- blugh -- never crush one.

^ I actually found that description rather funny (and disgusting!).

Dunno. Maybe it's time to move to an actual cockroach-infested apartment to find out.

I suspect we don't all have the same kind of cockroaches in mind.

Well, the roaches wouldn't kill you in ten days while the shelter guys can do it in an hour. Still with the roaches, disease or not.

Does anyone hope the roaches will be like in the movie Joe's Apartment

It depends on the shelter.

There are some shelters--which cater to families--which are actually okay.

Also: one should consider the possibility of there being roaches in shelters.