We have em too in Texas, big ones, the tree roach kind. Those are the ones that craw up the wall and if you spray them with roach spray they fly right at you in a suicide dive. My wife is from California, it took her a while to get use to that!
Actually, they are one of the most unclean of the bugs that get into a house. And, you are correct, it doesn't matter how clean your house is, if you don't keep the outside sprayed, they will come in. We have woods in our backyard and will see them out in the streets in our neighborhood, but I keep the outside as well as the attic sprayed and we rarely get one in the house. I've seen them many times at PORS on the walkways and balconies. I carry a small spray bottle of non-toxic pesticide that I spray around the door and window when we stay at PORS, and I've never had one get into the room. I've also seen them running around at CBR but that was four years ago. Someone will now say they are Palmetto bugs, but Palmetto bugs are a kind of cockroach. I don't really think it's a big problem or anything to worry about.LOL.
It's Florida there are going to be roaches
Clean / unclean is part of the reason you "have" them but in truth even the cleanest places have them in the south. From what I know they are pretty clean bugs. Nasty as all get out in appareance but clean.
Those big cockroaches are called Palmetto bugs I believe. We've seen them often at night in Epcot too, right at the benches where Off Kilter performs.
One of those suckers scuttered by us in DHS one night. That was not very magical.
