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where the fuck y'all living that is constantly infested with rodents lmfao

i've lived in three major cities and never had that problem in any of my apartments

proud of you

i've lived in more cities then that and encountered mice in every single one, including dorms. whether or not management is responsive depends on how close that asshole lives to the building

but it says something that anons have convinced themselves that everyone who acknowledges that rats live in cities and get into apartments sometimes is living in slovenly "infested hovels," despite no one saying that. y'all just aren't living in reality on this one and it's such a very tiny and embarrassingly privileged hill to die on

rats and mice live in cities, yes. but there's a huge difference between "rats and mice living in cities" and "rats and mice living in apartment buildings."

the first one is normal, the second one is not. hell, my parents live in a house in a wooded area and even then they've only had mice inside two or three times in the twenty years they've lived there. it is absolutely not the norm to be getting rodents inside your house or apartment.

nayrt we seem to have several jeds and shays among us. unless it's just one delusional hoarder anon or something.

https://www.wyseguys.com/blag/shitty-roommate/meet-jed/

https://shiroioji.livejournal.com/114944.html#cutid2

shit lasagna

pest control exists because mice notoriously don't enter buildings

are you listening to yourself

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0t2VPBF6Kp4&pp=ygUTcmF0cyB0aHJvdWdoIHRvaWxldA%3D%3D check this out

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yeah you can just do a search on people describing their apartment buildings. this shit is not the norm outside of developing countries. so many stinky anons.

Not even in developing countries unless you live in the shittiest areas. Sure, the streets might have roaches and rats and all that, but they rarely go into a house unless that house has a lot of things to attract it. Dirty, unkept places, easy to enter areas, and food that is just out in the open are likely to increase your chances of pests in general.

i believed that until i moved here. i live in one of the largest cities in a highly populated area, right in the downtown core, and in the low-rent areas, they're all infested. cockroaches are a problem, but so are bedbugs. and with public transportation, the transfer of bedbugs is stealthy and unobvious. and as far as mice? they are everywhere. i can't leave anything in bags, like bread, chips, crackers, because there will be mice chewing into them. i have to store things in the fridge or microwave.

this also goes to grocery stores/restaurants. i always double check when i pick up food from the grocery store, because i've numerous times found mouseholes chewed in them. if you go to the bread aisle, you pull out the loaves and you can see the little piles in the back of nibbled bread. even chocolate bars. mice are a huge thing in this city. i've seen them in windows of restaurants as i walk by on the street. i'm in a first world major city in a first world country.

pests are becoming huge issues in a lot of places. i just count my lucky stars it's not as bad as australia. cities are different creatures than suburbs and urban areas. i mean, right now, we can't even take care of the pests of humans shitting in the sidewalk and smoking crack at bus stops. and when you live in something like that for more than a few years, you start to normalize it, because otherwise you go mental.

this could explain why most of dwrp is chronically ill and disabled. the diseases spread by rodents and cockroaches and bedbugs are no joke.

anon, roaches are tropical insects. if you live somewhere that gets frost in the winter, the roaches are surviving indoors by definition.

you can also do a search

or just look right on this page of anons telling you directly that you are confidently wrong and mistaking your own experience for everyone's

my deepest condolences on the hantavirus rotting your brain :(

i'm sorry you can't conceive of a normal person living a normal life who thinks you're wrong, that must be difficult for you

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study with the most rodent-infested cities:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/travel/news/map-shows-the-most-rat-infested-locations-in-the-world/ss-AA1nzXMV#image=2

in the top 10: deshnoke, london, new york, paris, singapore, hamelin, guangzhou, johannesburg, atlanta, marseille - some of the largest and most desirable cities to live in globally.

i'm genuinely glad this isn't your experience and you've never had to encounter rodents, but pretending they're some eccentric improbability that only affects the slovenly who live in hovels perpetuates a pretty harmful stereotype and contributes to the shame (and unwillingness to act quickly and call professional help) of people who end up with vermin.

ngl after googling this and finding out more than half of the top 25 cities with the worst rat infestations are in the US (and I don't live in any of the countries in that list), I just have to wonder how insanely bad your rat problems are in comparison to my experience.

classic wg that this thread went:

"vermin live in everyone's buildings"

"no they don't"

"how dare you personally attack me people who have cockroaches"

classic wg is starting off with the assumption that any disagreement must be coming from the disgusting slob i am currently disparaging, because no one else could have a different lived experience

that would make me wrong!

you're doing it right now: please notice that my comment did not call you or anyone else a disgusting slob, think about why you made that connection, and talk to a professional about taking things too personally even when you know they don't apply to you

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pretty sure no one said mice and rats live in everyone's buildings, but that they are especially common in old buildings in cities with high density of population (i wrote such a comment myself). and just because they appear does not mean they have to stay: people do call pest control teams or, in regions where vermin that appear in an appartment are the problem of management and not of the owner, they call maintenance.

the entire argument of this thread is that while being slovenly can help perpetuate or exacerbate a rodent problem, it's typically not going to create it. rodents get in because there are or they make holes in the floors or walls, and they are usually drawn to heat.

da

another person that made a similar comment, and that's the thing. pest control comes in, but rodents breed at a really high rate, and it's doable to block holes and get rid of the ones they trap/poison, but they never get the whole nests. and over time, and depending on the building (apartment vs house) there's almost no way to wall everything off. things die in the walls all the time. roaches and mice/rats breed fast enough that they keep up with the measures to get rid of them unless the company does the most long term/high-payment measures to eradicate them. and frankly, most apartment managers or rental property managers want to save a buck, so they'd rather hire cheap and fast than expensive and long term. which is one of the main reasons that infestations keep occurring.

blocking off holes with metal mesh scrub pads and paper is a stopgap. glue traps only catch so much. even pesticides only work on a percentage and not the whole. pest control, particularly in cities, need to be a full time maintenance measure, and it never is.

plus, you have places like city dumps and junkyards that you can't in any way try to pest control, and those are usually some of the larger deposits of where the pests come from and branch out of.

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all it takes is one pair of rodents to start a infestation, as their pregnancies last for less then a month. they also reach sexual maturity in three months, so the mother rat is churning out waves of babies who then start churning out their babies and then all of a sudden you have a rat infestation, which is incredibly difficult to get rid of because all you need is one pregnant rat to escape extermination for them to bounce back.

it also doesn’t matter how clean you are (although i’m not saying that it’s ok to live like a pig) because once they settle in they will gnaw through your house for any weakness. they’ll also go through your car too.

hamelin???? The pied piper better get to work.