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Ive been speaking to my cousin and a friend of mine about me and the fiance's eventual move into the nyc area.
There is a lot of false negative hype surrounding nyc and I'm wondering if the notorious rat problem is one of them.
My friend and cousin tell me rats are way over hyped there. Both claim to rarely if ever sre a rat or mouse. My cousin, who moved out to nyc from Cincinnati in the dead of night about 10 years ago, said they arent any more of an issue there as there are in Cincinnati.
Are they correct in this? Is this just another myth?
Thanks and sorry for typos. On my phone and its being funny.
There are rats in the NYC subway.
But, they are way down on the tracks...completely separate from people. You observe them much like you'd observe a monkey in a cage. An interesting novelty, but not much more than that. You don't see them at every station, it's more like once in a great while, and you think, 'oh, that hits the stereotype about rats in NYC' and that's the extent of it.
I never had any experience with rats at any time ever...outside of seeing them in that context, every once in a great while.
Edited to add: very occasionally I would also see a rat in the street, and one morning early I saw several dead rats in front of a restaurant in Midtown! But rats not on subway tracks were a rare sight.
Staten Island definitely has the most rats.Don't you watch mob wives ? The place is infested with them.Karen Gravano's father was a rat,Drita D'Avanzo's husband is in jail because he got ratted out,same for Carla Facciolo's husband.Now Renee Graziano's husband has also turned out to be a rat.
When you say that, what are the real implications? If I found an apartment in or near Chinatown will I be sharing the streets and my apartment with rats? What could one expect from living in a 'hood considered to be infested with rats?
I personally think roach/bedbugs are a much larger problem to do with than rats. A cat in your apartment will usually solve any mice or rat problems unless its already a complete disaster. My neighbor in Bensonhurst complained a couple of times of mice but once we moved in with our cats they didn't come around anymore. Not that a cat will necessarily eat them or kill them but mice/rats can smell cats and will avoid them. Roaches and bedbugs on the other hand do not care about cats lol.
But, they are way down on the tracks...completely separate from people. You observe them much like you'd observe a monkey in a cage. An interesting novelty, but not much more than that. You don't see them at every station, it's more like once in a great while, and you think, 'oh, that hits the stereotype about rats in NYC' and that's the extent of it.
I never had any experience with rats at any time ever...outside of seeing them in that context, every once in a great while.
(I lived in NYC for 2 1/2 years).
I see them a little more than 'once in awhile.' On several occasions, I've seen them up on the platform.
Wherever there are people there will be rats. If you see one, there's likely 15 more. Anyone who's going to flip if they see a rat doesn't belong in a city.
I see them a little more than 'once in awhile.' On several occasions, I've seen them up on the platform.
Wherever there are people there will be rats. If you see one, there's likely 15 more. Anyone who's going to flip if they see a rat doesn't belong in a city.
"See a rat", or have them everywhere? I can handle seeing them in the subway tracks. I can't handle them in my apartment or running around the streets as I walk down them...
"See a rat", or have them everywhere? I can handle seeing them in the subway tracks. I can't handle them in my apartment or running around the streets as I walk down them...
You would have to be living in a really infested, overrun neighborhood to have RATS in your apartment. Mice are completely different.
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