Bluh. The guy in charge of section 8 in my county outright told us that if we tried to file a discrimination complaint, we'd be laughed out of the office. If I was his boss, I would have fired him on the spot.
Yeah the places in mine are either seniors only, or noted as being particularly dangerous. I'd rather avoid that as a woman that lives alone.
Big centipedes in Florida, those were dope. Pale-banded field roaches I've seen a few times and lost my shit too. Want go try and collect some and start a colony.
If you get a colony of roaches I want to see. I can't keep anything like that in my current situation but once things settle down I want most likely an eastern hercules beetle (or another yellow bananaey lookin beetle idk they live very short lifespans anyway) or maybe an isopod colony (I know not bugs but still associated with bugs.)
Dear lord, that's just depressing. Around here, a lot of the buildings were built in the 1920s, so even if they were at market rate (which they aren't), they likely wouldn't meet modern housing code requirements for Section 8. Hell, the apartment I lived at before this one had a death trap door leading to the laundry room; the door swung out towards you and had no space to move after opening the door, so you'd fall right down the stairs, cracking your skull on the pavement, trying to open the door to take your laundry up.
I don't know but I've seen articles about people getting sick from mold and stuff in poorly-maintained complexes. The more dangerous ones also have issues with violent crimes like robberies, assaults, even murders. Unfortunately there's so few protections for renters and low-income housing in my state that its a problem that's been allowed to fester for years.
Oh I've kept roaches in general since I was 17. I have 7 species right now, including a feeder colony of dubia.
List everything you're currently keeping, what are you feeding the dubias to?
Dubias are for spiders/geck/any other bug eater I might have. I have hissers, giant cave roaches, dubia, smokey brown roaches, horseshoe crab roaches, extinct in the wild roaches, deaths head, and one rhino roach.
I'm envious of your bug life. I want the bug life so bad. You can finally say "I, android raptor the short bus riding retard have someone that's jealous of something in my life"
I’m glad you have a psychiatrist on your side helping you navigate the labyrinth of public social services. Keep in mind that the reason why it‘s a labyrinth is because the government (both state and the feds) don’t actually want to give you any services. Red state or blue state, doesn’t matter; people on social services are bad for optics. I say this as a political centrist — in America, your duty as a citizen is to work for someone else until you die so that the wealthy don’t have to share what they steal from all of us. They are all as rich as kings, rich beyond the hopes and dreams of you and I.
Be patient, young grasshopper. Someday you will be able to live the bug life as well. I have hope.
I want to, I just need to get my housing situated first. Dealing with both trying to find housing and taking classes at the same time is something I can smell ending in the psych ward.
If you weren't dealing with calling everyone a pedophile online, that would free up a lot of time, improve your mood, and you'd have tangible results at the end of the day. Take a week off from shitting up A&N threads, put your phone in a drawer from 9-5, and engage with the reality within arm's length. Your terrible anger problems aren't being helped by this place.
Homie I come here to blow off steam and unwind. Pretty different than doing actual work.
Civilized societies always care for their more vulnerable and weak.
What's the pharmacy situation in those retard group homes and how good is their security?
