My *crawling* neighbours
Bernarda Maia February 1st, 2009
I moved to Sydney a couple of months ago to accompany my husband in his employment. We were living in Melbourne from November 2007 and I really enjoyed living there. In spite of living on the forty-first floor of a building in the CBD (I didn’t enjoy living in furnished apartment and I have fear of high buildings), I found that Melbourne has lots of entertainment. The cultural life, restaurants, fashion and the charming trams give to the city the quality that you can read in the car numberplate: “the place to be”.
The cold weather, the biggest motive for people’s complaints about Melbourne, is nothing compared to the awful experience that I’m having now in Sydney and that I’m going to share in the following paragraphs.
When we arrived in Sydney we moved in to an apartment leased by my husband’s company in the CBD. After one month we moved in to our own place in St Leonards, a nice neighborhood in north Sydney. Close to the city, trains, buses, Fitness First and shops, this place had everything to be perfect, but…my apartment is full of cockroaches!
Everyday I have to kill one. EVERY SINGLE DAY!
Talking to some friends and neighbours I discovered that it’s not just my apartment. Sydney itself is full of cockroaches!
It reminded me of when I went to NY. One of the things that I hated the most was the rats and the cockroaches that inhabited the city (there were certainly more insects and rats than people). Here it is full of rats as well, although I have never seen one in any unit, I see a lot on the streets.
I really wish to live in a nice place, where I can have nice dreams that are better than the ones I’m having now. Even in my dreams I can see these crawling insects. They disturb me, my dreams and my house. Please, NSW Government, do something! I pay 35% in taxes every month!
Yes, Sydney has beautiful beaches, but I don’t see them every day…
This is a funny video that I found called We Will Survive (The Cockroach Song)
Oi Bernarda! Ninguém merece baratas. Eu tinha uma receita básica no Brasil que acabou com todas elas no meu apartamento. E olha que não eram poucas. Posso tentar encontrar para você. Mas já adianto que comprava ácido bórico na farmácia. Não sei se vai ter aqui.
Mudando de assunto, dá uma olhada lá no meu blog num selinho que deixei para você. Espero que aprecie. Um grande beijo.
Bê!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this video is disgusting, but hilaurious!!!!!!!!!!
I laughed hipes…oh my god! so funny!!!!!!
I agree with you, the gov should erradicate the cockroaches, they are appalling creatures, urgh!!!!!!!
numa boa, bÊ, tu tem certeza que está morando em Sydney? isso tá parecendo apartamento em Copacabana.
“la cucaratcha, la cucaratcha, la cucaratchaaaaaaaaa…”
Bernada…I am from Sydney, haven’t lived there for 30 years..why? you guessed it.
The place is alive with those revolting creatures.
I hate their sneaky digusting habit of being there, hideous antennae moving.. when you’re wandering to the toilet, bleary eyed and disorientated by sleep..nightmarish..then you can’t get back to sleep – wondering where the horrible large b******* has gone to, is it approaching your bed? ugh.
My friend, whatever you do – DO NOT move to Queensland or further North. They’re bigger and more numerous and exalt in the heat. The largest cockroach recorded in the world, was in Brisbane.
Best Wishes from a fellow cockroach hater.