Roach Coach

So we finally broke down and got one of these:

It's only been a few days of transportational freedom. So far, I've noticed:

1. It's easy to get to awesome places that we otherwise didn't go to because (in spite of not being that far away) too many tram transfers tended to be involved...like St. Kilda, for pizza to eat on the shore, or the South Melbourne Market, for tasty antipasti, meats and dips.
2. Everywhere we've been so far has these:

I can't tell you how much I hate cockroaches. Strange, that we just went through 15 months of hoofing it...we get a car, and suddenly, everywhere we go is teaming with them.

What could it mean? Why? Why?!!!