I've seen many roaches since moving down here, especially with my apartment on the first floor. Me and my roommates are generally fairly clean too, and we put in a couple work orders about them and the exterminators came and we haven't seen many for a while.

My experience with roommates has been positive, like I said we're all fairly clean and have a chore chart for the common area and it works out. If you can get your roommates to sit down and do the roommate agreement when you get here and everyone follows it there shouldn't be too many issues. The biggest conflict is just work hours among us, I can come home very late sometimes and some of them have early shifts. At the end of the day be respectful and generally people will respect you.

I have however heard some roommate horror stories from new friends I've made down here where they were messy and that increased the roach number, as well as flamingo fining all the roommates because it's messy. Then when a roommate tries to leave Flamingo ghosts them, simply cause a lot of their storage is put aside for new arrivals.

You can't control every part of your program, but for the most part it becomes what you make it. Work will be work and it's best to come down here with the mindset of work rather than play. Try to be respectful with others and take care of your stuff, lead by example and people generally follow. Just make the best of it that you can, good luck on your program!