As for Japan… well, I’ve heard apocryphal tales of people taking up residence in nearby hotels when they see roaches in their apartment. That sounds like a tall tale, but in any case, it just goes to show that no one is happy to see even a single roach. If you want to roach-pr...
If it’s not a matter of only knowing that you have a floor because all your s--t hasn’t dropped into the apartment below you, everything isn’t piled up like the first ten minutes of an episode of Horders and the cockroaches haven’t moved out to find a place more upscale, then...
It’s this location, paired with the warm heat being output by the systems and lack of solid airflow, that attracts bugs. It’s gross, and it’s particularly scary if you’re moving a console from one place to another, like an apartment that might be infested with cockroaches to one ...
I like to blame Frank Loyd Wright for a lot of this urban/rural stupidity, he was one of the first to say if we stacked all the agricultural workers in nicely designed dorms and apartment buildings that So Much Land Would Be Freed Up. Which is true, and given the automobile there’s ...
That’s all bad enough as it is, but when relocating to a new home or apartment, they can turn the moving process into an absolute nightmare. On the bright side, discovering bed bugs doesn’t have to put a crimp in your plans. ...
Cockroaches, mice, etc., damp rooms. No heating. KitChen is totalIy inadequate and dirty. ChineSe Iady OWneEs Very IoUd as are all her relatives. It has deteriorated Very badly a shame. 4 It WaS in a hostel like this that I had stayed, for 2 months. MoSt Of the guests Who IiVed...
“This is New York. Mary doesn’t have any locks on her doors. The first thing you do in New York is you lock your door when you get back to your apartment.” I would say, “We need some locks on the doors, and there are no hot tubs in Harlem. You do not go home and ...
Director Sam Peckinpah describes his vision to a new actress, steadily brutalizing her in the process. A parody ad for Jamitol features a husband and his exhausted wife. An exterminator, horrified at the prospect of killing, shows his partner a film about the history of cockroaches. Gilda ...
They’ll clean it up for you.’ We were like, ‘This place has got three inches of dust and there’s cockroaches and there’s brown water coming out of the sink. I don’t know if I feel like that’s something I want to sign a lease on.’ But because there’s a glut of ...
I’ve had experiences with cockroaches, fleas and all those things, but they don’t have the same psychological impact as bed bugs. The first time I had bed bugs was 2004, a couple years after I moved to New York. I got some bites and didn’t know what was going on. This wasn’...