天美麻豆

We reside in both Highland Chiapas (SanCristobal de Las Casas) and at Lake Chapala (Ajijic, Jalisco).聽 I was born and raised in Coastal Alabama and that is where I married my native French聽 spouse who had only recently moved temporarily to Mobile to teach French at a private high school.聽 After a brief period living聽 in Mobile we moved to San Francisco and when we retired we moved to Mexico - both Jalisco and Chiapas -聽 two places in which we continue to reside some 17 years later.

I bore you folks with my origin and past and current residential status to talk about cockroaches, not to otherwise extoll the virtues of any of those places in which we have chosen to live over the past nearly 50 years but to share with the reader that which聽 we have learned through experience聽 about the chacteristics of these nasty bichos and thereby聽 pass along this wisdom to the few of you who might have an interest as you contemplate geographical retirement locations in North America.聽

Cockroaches and, specifically what we in Alabama called "tree roaches" - that is, the huge gruesome, creepy monsters that are a plague in Coastal聽 Alabama at sea level and聽 at Lake Chapala at 5,000 feet altitude that we have lived with since retirement. We have only identified the small so-called "kitchen roaches"聽 聽where we live in in Highland Chiapas at 7,000 feet and even then only on rare occasions.

We are therefore (and not by choice) authorities on the giant tree roaches that are ubiquititous in Coastal Alabama and at Lake Chapala and have determined that Lake Chapala cockroaches are superior pests in one麓s home to the variety of the pest experienced in Coastal Alabama.聽 The reason is not complicated.聽 Alabama cockroaches can and do fly about one麓s home at night in the dark,聽 landing on occasion during the night聽 in one麓s hair as one reposes in one麓s bed trying to achieve a good聽 聽
night麓s sleep聽 while surrounded by these monsters flying about one麓s bedroom. Lake Chapala cockroaches, on the other hand,聽 do not fly and thus do not land聽 in one麓s hair and upon one麓s bedsheets during the night.聽 Rather, Lake Chapala cockroaches stick to their assigned territory on the floors or kitchen counters around one麓s home feasting upon聽 miniscule bits of cockroach food undetectable by human beings聽 that these creatures identify here and there leaving us to our peaceful slumber while they fatten up during their evening food hunts.

In summation, if you detest cockroaches and, particularly flying cockroaches, as companions in your chosen retirement home, I recommend Highland Chiapas or, secondarily,聽 the no-fly cockroach zone around Lake Chapala and not Coastal Alabama or any other location on the U.S. Gulf Coast.