A New York City Exterminator Tells Us The Places He'd Never Live

[@cyber2729]

Exterminators are brave as hell and we overlooking it

[@freejtautomatic]

NootmyDoot straight facts my dude 😔🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@greygods9824]

Or we're all just pussies.

[@TheKEVIN3151]

I’m A Exterminator, Thank You !

[@rsoul7282]

NootmyDoot how are they brave? They just aren’t squeamish, it’s not like their lives are at risk. No disrespect, but it is just a job, there are worse things you could have to do.

[@blizzbee]

I agree!!

[@qanh96]

Excuse me I need to go wash all my dishes, do all my laundry, clean my room and then burn whole thing down. Back in a bit.

[@icehot900]

😂😂

[@jefferyfloydjr4185]

Lmaooooooooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cat_pb]

same omg.

[@historystorieswithreggie2865]

Literally what I'm thinking right now

[@amyrussell860]

Lol. Same.

[@stevenholt5484]

This well - spoken and articulate gentleman needs his own channel, I'm sure he has many stories and useful tips that anyone living in a large city would enjoy and find useful.

[@JLBREMER]

Agreed!

[@harrygirl56]

Y u gotta say the first two things like that tho

[@negativefreeroll5089]

He’s too busy WORKING

[@fatvegan4621]

Don't live in near a park, near a restaurant, in an old building?? That's all of New York

[@user-cu6ii3gv1x]

aimless wander also don’t live in a large apartment building? So like..all buildings?!

[@magno5157]

That’s right. Don’t live in New York.

[@athenachristinemusic]

Yep

[@luisd8818]

Move out of NY lol

[@WholesaleTurbos]

yup

[@taesang5664]

if i was an exterminator, i’d legit wear a hazmat suit all day everyday

[@noahdg884]

hae chan NCTZEN❤️❤️❤️

[@jaleelconnelly]

Dude definitely

[@Fatima-hl2qg]

hae chan omg it’s an NCTzen

[@dingus6076]

Roaches arent radioactive

[@amanteheru8572]

Lmfaoooooo

[@vino8109]

Born in Manhattan, raised and reside in Brooklyn. My friends and family can laugh at me, but this is one of the biggest reasons I am a clean freak and a minimalist.

[@AnniseAromatics]

That intro story, no way in HELL could I be an exterminator! For those who are, you have my respect.

[@dylanbollinger8599]

Dee Tess thanks! I’ve seen shit like this. It’s pretty gross.

[@kaylahall1219]

Yeah. I'd NOPE right outta there.

[@clivechiam]

I see a dead roach 4 feet away and l literally take off screaming. Mad mad respect

[@acestarone]

How did it get that bad? Just gross.

[@marylamb7707]

Dee Tess Even if i THINK theres a bug its time to move.

[@ededdedison]

“Never live near a restaurant, a park, or an old apartment” Oh so basically don’t live anywhere in New York

[@ededdedison]

Curly Savv Mine’s actually different though 👀🌝🌝🌝

[@ANA-ie1lf]

@Curly Savv why care lol. your comment is ironically the most common reply that comes almost after every common sense thought people have that just gets commented.

[@w7n424]

Reveluv Edy unless it’s hamptons

[@natalie8212]

Odd, the commenter above you seems to have copied you. Except his was 4 months ago. Weird.

[@jburns1999]

“You can copy my homework, just don’t make it so obvious”

[@Zeldafan1ify]

As a sufferer of roach phobia, I hold exterminators like this guy in high respect. A job like that would put me in an ambulance

[@caspersmith3504]

I'm watching this from an old, multi unit building next to a cafe across the street from central park. Help

[@monica_g456]

Condolence

[@pandapuffs9326]

damn you must have a hella nice apartment then hahaha

[@caspersmith3504]

@@pandapuffs9326 ha I wish. I'm visiting family. This appt is amazing tho, I'm lucky to get to stay here, even for a short time!

[@pandapuffs9326]

Cas still nice though!!! i’m so jealous you’re in new york right now lol

[@caspersmith3504]

@@pandapuffs9326 yea it's awesome! I'm from denver so just here on spring break, but I have a bunch of family around here and it's so much better than the suburbia I call home

[@colterwehmeier7258]

wish this was longer. this guy probably knows a lot more interesting things about NY!

[@XCVi_MAC]

I’m sure he knows what restaurants to avoid.

[@jimgritty7064]

Yea this guy is interesting.

[@unbreonblade5904]

Exterminator: I've seen things your people wouldn't believe...

[@skyry101]

He needs his own KZbin channel

[@stormblessed2321]

My thoughts, exactly.

[@daibm5392]

I'm from Africa and I have seen all kinds of weird animals. However, I freaked out when I saw a nasty cat looking rat pop out of the tracks in a NYC subway station LOL

[@wannamlwithu]

Lol well 34th Herald is notoriously famous for gigantic rats on the track and sometimes on platform too

[@unabashed]

Poor rats. Everyone's just trying to survive out here.

[@zzzzf99309]

I doubt you’re from Africa. Nobody from Africa says they’re from Africa it’s a huge continent with 54 countries, so you’re telling me you’re from every country? Be specific 🙃

[@daibm5392]

@@zzzzf99309 why would I be specific for some creepy guy on KZbin who desperately needs attention?

[@Retromaster364]

@@zzzzf99309 Creep

[@JustAGuyProduction]

It would be better if he told us where not to eat.

[@netnegativenosferatu]

I've delivered food supplies to kitchens in Manhattan and youd be surprised even the fancy places have roaches and mice

[@acacius9903]

Everywhere

[@gersonponce5764]

Everywhere

[@drink15]

All restaurants have pest issues in NYC. Cook your own food.

[@MK-hh1vo]

At a restaurant in an old building on the ground floor, near a park. Weren't you listening?

[@ZachVanHarrisJR]

*These brave men and women that work in pest control deserve Medals of Honor*

[@bostonmass7679]

You should have the most 👍for your comment!

[@candicedice8605]

Calm down

[@MGillDesign]

I wouldn't be able to sleep after an 8 hour day on the job. I'd be thinking something's crawling on me.

[@SarahR2D2]

Not just pest control my husband works in heating and air and he's had nightmare stories too

[@Backyardmech1]

@@MGillDesign It’s not a job for everyone for sure and I guess you get used to it. I sleep like a baby after multiple 10 hour days of running to 10 or more customers a day.

[@dianeconti7602]

I've lived in many places in NY and FL. The first thing I do before moving in is to hire a cleaning service to come in and scrub the place. Next, I go to Home Depot and buy masking tape and roach bombs, Raid spray and roach motels. Tape up the windows and set off the bombs in every single room. Leave and tape up the entry door from the outside. Return the next day and sweep up and dispose the sealed bag of bodies in the dumpster out in the street. Be sure to pull out and clean the back of the fridge and drip pan. Spray with Raid and put a roach motel under the fridge, under the sink, in bathroom vanities and behind the toilets. Change roach motels every 3 months. Keep dirty laundry in a tall covered plastic hamper lined with a bin bag, tied closed. Use screens on your windows. Leave no open food out. Use plastic storage containers for pantry food. Use a small kitchen bin to force you to put out the rubbish daily. Keep your stove top, ventilator and oven clean and free from grease. It takes vigilance to maintain a roach free house, but I have done it while my neighbors could not.

[@rosa16340]

which cleaning services would you recommend?

[@AW-ue2ls]

You forgot one most important thing.....inspect every nook and cranny of the apartment and close any holes with steel wool and plaster (always throw mice poison in any holes you find before closing it).

[@mrscee44]

It all comes down to hygiene point blank I live in NYC and my neighbor has roaches and mice. My apartment does not. The landlord refuses to hire an exterminator because only one apt is infested. It really comes down to cleanliness and personal hygiene. No excuses

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

Man that seems like a lot of work lol. But I have never lived in New York.

[@nicolenunya984]

I live in south Fl and agree with cleaning your apartment or new home before moving in and bombing it. I don’t do all of that but do have pest control spray every once in a while. I don’t have any roaches either. I do live in a nice decent place

[@sophiamorrillmancilla8174]

I live in a pre-war building, in front of a park, next to a restaurant.......

[@cgurl]

Sophia Morrill Mancilla .......... 😂😂😭

[@donaldj.trumpfromthetrench8849]

Then your just jail dropped the soap fucked

[@kaylaglazz]

I live across the street from 3 fast food places hella old buildings and a gas station I hate my life

[@ChromaticaCitizen]

so you’re a roach?

[@Caesar319840]

Is it bad? - Curious Low East Sider

[@elsea8901]

“A roach egg.” Damn that’s just a nasty as hell phrase.

[@mrpower328]

Rice crispies are roach eggs

[@elsea8901]

Border Man 🤢🤮🙈

[@elsea8901]

mrpower328 🙈🤣🙈

[@juniorlsdmusic]

30 roach babies inside a single egg

[@owlani3950]

EWWWWW

[@awsd2992]

I think overpopulation has a factor but Tokyo has it figured out. It's just public hygiene at this point.

[@gazir7168]

Tokyo restaurants and supermarkets are required to dump poison all over their discarded food to kill rodents and dumpster divers looking for food

[@pikameme3322]

Japan is always one step ahead

[@mancerrss]

@@gazir7168 Damn so no homeless

[@mcadaal]

Cleanliness is part of their culture. USA is a nasty melting pot that’s rotten.

[@IncognitoSprax]

@@pikameme3322 Except when it comes to criminal justice and work life balance.

[@LIVEFRMNYC]

I used to be a cable guy in Brooklyn and Manhattan. There were apartments and homes that I refused to service just based on it being too dirty or infested. And when I saw bed bugs, I immediately left, drove back to the base, and trash my clothes.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

was* threw away*

[@LIVEFRMNYC]

@@PANZERFAUST90 Nobody cares*

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@@LIVEFRMNYC You're right. I should have just said that 😂

[@kelleychicago7049]

F*ckin' grammar police are worse than roaches

[@ctnative203]

what would you say is worse in new york the rats or roaches ?

[@gato7908]

Pre war buildings next to parks would include the area around central park west and south, some of the most expensive real estate in NYC

[@TatuSings]

Central part is infested with rats. They literally walk with yoh at the day light

[@susiq1121]

Madonna had a live with a rat running across her hall 😷🤢

[@SarahR2D2]

@@susiq1121 😂😂😂

[@rog809]

is a different demographic since all tjose all building are well maintained and updated this are upper class areas

[@rmw090]

yeah, right? that realestate is beautiful. I'll rent it if you dont!

[@tiredapplestar]

Walking up three flights of stairs with groceries doesn’t seem so bad anymore.

[@SalsHQ]

The roaches and rats in NYC are democrats/liberals 🤣 Tekashi69 all over the city

[@tiredapplestar]

@@SalsHQ Tekashi 69 is a Trump supporter. 😉

[@jamesemerson9557]

Reminder NEVER BRING PAPER BAGS OR BOXES IN YOUR HOUSE. Roach eggs live on the glue on the bottom. ALWAYS GO PLASTIC

[@SalsHQ]

@@tiredapplestar ALL GOOD REPS AND DEMS ONLY PLAY ENEMY ON TV WHILE THE PPLE KILL EACH OTHER, WE LIVE IN A SICK SOCIETY HERE IN THE STATES WHERE PEOPLE ARE NOT ALL THERE IN THE HEAD, COST OF LIVING, HIGH DIVORCE RATES, FATHERS ABSENT, GANGS, DRUGS...

[@SAOrules]

@@tiredapplestar no is a common sense patriotic American

[@clxwncrxwn]

I watched a video on rats in new York. It’s disgusting. They’re also pretty smart. They have a hierarchy, first the lower rats will eat the food and if they don’t die, then the higher rats will eat.

[@mayshac8189]

Yeah ur right, New York rats are fat and tough. But not everywhere, Staten Island is so lonely.

[@clxwncrxwn]

IOozeAwesomeness yep, and they’re also immune to a range of poisons no matter what the dosage is, they build an immunity.

[@jcnot9712]

Just Renegade you’ve never seen a rat in nyc? You’re either LYING in capital letters or a sheltered kid who just got to the city.

[@theorenmaybee7927]

@Just Renegade tourist can spot rats within 1 day going around the city.. hell my sister saw a rat 3 hours into being in NYC

[@lourencovieira313]

New York and new yorkers need to take actions. Specially new yorkees cant throw trash in tge streets

[@seni8871]

“There’s probably 30 more you’re just not seeing”... well guess it’s time to burn the whole house down 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@avasd59]

Lol

[@memyself1868]

😂😂

[@ChildofGod1433]

Marceline Ingot I just got rid of my infestation with Boric Acid. I haven’t seen 1 fucker ever since! 👏🏻

[@PANZERFAUST90]

not the partial house?

[@RebelLyfeBoxing80]

@@ChildofGod1433 it does work

[@Paul-ou1rx]

"You'll just love this place. It's a historic building near the park with lots of restaurants and coffee shops within walking distance."

[@SonOfGod0600]

Oh and some roommates...

[@AmeBelleWins]

i live in new york lemme tell you the joke about our rats wearing tims is true

[@Tj-uu1ww]

Do they wear fitted caps too?

[@FrenchSaladMac]

Is it true you have to rap to your principle in order to graduate

[@FrenchSaladMac]

Is it true your perfered du rag color is on your driver's license

[@Tj-uu1ww]

@@FrenchSaladMac preferred*

[@ilickyourtoesatnight9535]

They even have their own mafia

[@meliakillia9223]

Exterminator got some nice subtle New York accent

[@detroitisback8021]

The city will never be able to do anything about these rats period. Its way to late. These rats got burrows built around this entire city. These mofos paying taxes, rent, they arnt going anywhere.

[@anoblesteed5685]

😂😂 Hell yeah

[@royalgoddess3284]

They can do something about it they choose not to.

[@SRLovesPandas1]

gotta include them in the census now lol

[@charlineorozco]

😂😂😂😂

[@strandedinanisland457]

Even rats pay taxes huh

[@ChristopherMoom]

The trick is to just not live in New York City at all Just live at New Donk City instead

[@111justinjames]

Christopher Moon lmfao this comment is underrated 😂😂😂

[@martinezb825]

They have worst pests tho... goombas, those giant flies, even rats too

[@angsleeper6588]

@@martinezb825 just bring a hat. Ez

[@ScienceProject99]

pauline has big boobz

[@comradecat1922]

@@ScienceProject99 nice, But Peach is still better

[@TonyqTNT]

At least the rodents in NYC are more intellectually inclined and socially progressive then their contemporaries in less enlightened environs. Last time I was in Manhattan I saw two rats in an alley discussing the relative philosophical merits of Sartre and Camus.

[@superoriginalname]

Your joke had a good start but failed as it tried too hard

[@alyssalidman5123]

This joke made me smile.

[@TonyqTNT]

@@alyssalidman5123 Glad you liked the joke! I actually adore NYC and am looking forward to moving to the Ozone Park-Richmond Hill Area of Queens at the beginning of 2020 if all goes well. Manhattan is currently way beyond my reach from a practical perspective but as they say have Metro Card will travel!!!

[@heyclementine5478]

This comment is painfully underrated. Made me smile

[@TonyqTNT]

@@heyclementine5478 Thanks, I 💘 Queens!

[@Fadeddreams5]

When I was a little boy in New York, I caught a roach, put him in a shoebox, and fed him lettuce and bread crumbs. I named him Larry. I really liked Larry, so I showed him to my mom. She squished him in front of my eyes. I cried.

[@BennieTarrMusic]

When I was a child, in New York, I found a crack vial...

[@spritezecplaysson2078]

When I was little I found a baby mouse. Same as you, I put it in a shoe box and fed it something I then showed it to my sister and she proceeded to tell my mom and I had to get rid of it 🥺

[@nishantjoglekar3068]

And then there were 30 more...

[@sirsnakespeare]

Bless your mom 😊🙏

[@333pinkelephant333]

aww you have the spirit of Wall-E

[@armandofuentes]

So basically don't live in New York City.

[@bmartin4549]

Armando Fuentes if you want the pleasure without the pain just live in Jersey. The commute from the closest spot to NYC is literally about 10 minutes. Go for work and play and come home to a luxury apartment which for the same price in the city you’d be getting a broom closet. Just saying.

[@cactaceous]

I was born in Manhattan, have lived here all my life apart from my college years and have only had problems once, when I was like 12 we had a mouse in the apartment and we caught him after like a few days. Exterminators sealed an entrance point and done. Have lived in West Village, East Village, LES, midtown and UES. Only one place had mice. More than 20 years ago.

[@Eze49Pana]

B Martin Jersey sucks -a native New Yorker

[@yeseniaarias2395]

A live in Las Vegas

[@parksideracks8075]

Yeah basically

[@mixflip]

What we learned today....never move to NYC.

[@AskMiko]

💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@anime_enthusiast5622]

Sad I'm already living next to 2 grocery stores old buildings a restaurant and a park and in nyc.

[@toxicleaguex5546]

@Lala Ryn HOLY SHIT

[@tjjefferson3410]

@diggs19 last time i checked everyone is coming to their senses and moving out. Nyc lost like 3 and a half million people left nyc this year alone lol. They are all moving mear by to Connecticut, new jersey or down south to florida

[@wturner777]

@mixflip Unless you can fork over tens of thousands of dollars a month living in a penthouse in Manhattan, then I'm with you.

[@-.00__I__o8o__I__00.]

The smell of roach infestation is... A sickly sour, chemical smell that makes you want to vomit. I used to walk past a roach-infested house. I could smell it from the sidewalk

[@KeikoKeepSmiling]

You described it so well.. it nearly smells like decomposition.

[@kimlipeatingmango3318]

@@KeikoKeepSmiling r u korean

[@wilburdesouza]

Yes that smell is so disgusting, it smells very close to what lithium grease smells like

[@bobby3210]

Y’all smell that...that smelly smell that smells...ROACHES

[@talamuffy3094]

I’m around such places so much that I don’t even notice anymore

[@sanjayraju988]

As someone who has wanted to live in NYC his whole life, this video made me want to reconsider.

[@mayshac8189]

All you have to do is live cautiously and you’ll be ok.

[@oscarmorales8979]

Unless you like paying 2000 a month for a roach infested broom closet, stay away from NYC.

[@tomanderson6545]

radio tech They'res rats in every major city. I live in Boston and when they were digging a highway tunnel 20 years ago a billion rats ran out of the sewers and onto the streets.

[@cooldude2106]

U better remain in India i think

[@kikipooh6350]

NYC is gross

[@yarinelperalta6428]

So basically all of New York

[@yarinelperalta6428]

Yes

[@contentwithchaz8916]

yarinel peralta nope, area I live in is much cleaner than downtown

[@cjtreasure4731]

ny is a shit hole just got back home last night lmao

[@contentwithchaz8916]

Cj Treasure you don’t even live in ny

[@XX-fd1ix]

People tend to forget that New York is a state. I'm from Manhattan - a tiny ass island that's part of a big ass state. People who think of New York automatically think of New York City, big city lights, traffic, etc.

[@dignityhonor8754]

They asked me once: do you have pets? I responded: Sure, I'm a new yorker of course I have pets, I've got roaches, rats, mice, etc...

[@shannon2748]

When my friend lived in Brooklyn, she said her cat caught 3 mice in one week, in one of the apartments she lived in. Yikes!!!!

[@dignityhonor8754]

@@shannon2748 i believe that, if her cat caught 3 mice, that means an entire mice family lives in that apt, maybe they own it by now :)

[@Sophie-gk1me]

I thought he was gonna say neighborhoods not to live in

[@No1reallydies]

Jake L “ all of Detroit” bro come here than say that why be ignorant. There’s only like 5 miles radius that is bad with crime and I never heard of bad pest problems.

[@No1reallydies]

Jake L Los Angeles is 10x more dangerous lived in both places Detroit just gets a bad rep. Small city traditional values

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

It speaks volume when you go to your fast food restaurant and the cashier is behind bullet proof glass.

[@No1reallydies]

Bobbius Shadow not really bro that’s only in Detroit for the bad blocks once u go past 16 mile north there’s no bullet proof glass and if u go west instead of north 8 mile is actually really nice . It’s just certain areas that are bad like all cities

[@No1reallydies]

Rational PoC bro black people never f w me In Detroit it’s all about staying in ur lane If u go out of ur way to annoy ppl or be a snitch than u will get what’s coming If u never mess with no one and stay clean u won’t get dragged in

[@jayesimond9301]

This guy must be a joy at dinner parties ... “Soooo tell me what’s ur job like?”

[@clumsytriangle2436]

I'm an expat living in Shanghai (around 24 million people) for 8 years and within a very local type neighbourhood. I can count on my one hand the number of times I've spotted a rat or roach. The city's hygiene standards are high and waste disposal is very organised (recycling is practised diligently and waste disposal happens at specific times, so it is not sitting for the whole day waiting to be collected etc.). There are constantly cleaners cleaning public places and within business areas and private apartment spaces, the local community/building managers take responsibility of keeping their areas clean. So NYC needs to get its act together. There is no excuse for filth in a so called world class city.

[@pyrovania]

I've been to Shanghai and saw a human turd on the street. It must depend on the neighborhood.

[@bzibubabbzibubab420]

They just the city clean with roach and stuff but not human waste

[@billpetersen298]

In the countryside, rats are food. Maybe in the poor areas of Shanghai, too?

[@yvngsn0w]

just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

[@DigitalYojimbo]

This video is basically a "Just don't live in new york" video.

[@Atombender]

Unless you earn more than $250k a year.

[@blythesaunders3124]

New York is an expensive wasteland. We visited my cousin there last year and I thank the lord that I’m way up north. Away from the filth.

[@wturner777]

Don't move there unless you can actually afford a penthouse apartment in Manhattan.

[@marcelrodriguez2067]

@@wturner777 manhattan aint the only borough you know that right? The bronx is still the cheapest borough.

[@boot2themoon]

LA is rat infested too and there is talk of the plague coming back there. Avoid both cities. Move to Arizona or New Jersey even instead...and vote red. De Blasio cut the sanitation department’s budget this summer. 🤮 Guess he needed the money for more yellow paint.

[@jibba1681]

Long story short if you don’t like roaches, don’t move to NYC

[@michellelewis3673]

Who TF likes creepy crawling nasty roaches 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@boot2themoon]

@@michellelewis3673 hipsters and people who want to prove something to the people they went to high school with.

[@vladimir-savage72]

@@boot2themoon Ok Boomer

[@boot2themoon]

@@vladimir-savage72 I’m 33 but ok Moody Blues fan, fellow boomer. Question: how is it we are here, on this path we walk? In this world of pointless fear filled with empty talk. Also, enjoy the roaches and lack of sanitation, friend. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIeniJWHqceBbbc

[@boot2themoon]

Woof. Thanks Deblasio for cutting the sanitation budget. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXmmo5SJoM6Bga8

[@BennieTarrMusic]

We had beg bugs in Alaska. Left the mattress outside in -25°F and they all froze.

[@genxnomad1978]

Did they thaw out when you brought it back inside??

[@crystaloats8177]

@@genxnomad1978 bed bugs cannot survive extreme cold or heat.

[@jamesemerson9557]

@@crystaloats8177 Yes thats correct. A lot of exterminators will bring in heat lamps I believe they cannot survive over 115 degrees. I had them in my house form a damn hotel we stayed at. I eventually won the battle by sleeping in my bathtub for a year. They couldnt move well on ceramic. If they dont fed within I believe its 8 months or so they will die. I had no pets. I know I didnt wanna pay terminix the 1000 or so to kill them.

[@larrydavid6852]

The problem with that is they don't only live in beds. They will live all over your building, on soft furnishings, crevices - pretty much anywhere within a few feet of a food source. I lived in an apartment building (in Long Beach) that became infested with them. To get away from them I had to move and dispose of almost all of my stuff. They are bad news. I am still completely paranoid about them.

[@larrydavid6852]

@Temporary Account I love travelling but I *hate* staying in hotels. My wife thinks I am being ridiculous about it.

[@wilterfilho]

When he said clutter, I peeked suspecting at my pile of dirty clothing on top of my bedroom chair...

[@aleenaprasannan2146]

Oh that universal chair. That's why I don't have a chair in my bedroom anymore

[@Handlewithluv]

I just looked at mine ...

[@arianasantiago331]

I just look at that pile of clothes in my room too like 👀😭🥴

[@Chicagocubs21]

I got so itchy watching this video

[@skyforce2132]

I’m itchy either way cause of eczema

[@jaayeee24]

Just leave New York. It’s filthy...I didn’t realize this until I left NY.

[@hikmahking5351]

New York is a great place to live. Not everywhere is like that.

[@lisaellis2593]

New York, is nice to visit, but I would not want to live there.

[@marcelrodriguez2067]

All my family live here so thats kinda hard.

[@jaayeee24]

@@marcelrodriguez2067 somebody has to be the 1st to leave. Start the migration.

[@---ob7yj]

@@hikmahking5351 Well... I mean NYC isn’t really high on standards of living compared to other cities. Though I’m sure it’s amazing

[@theeel8981]

Jokes on you, I can only live underwater!

[@quit-5027]

well u will be extinct

[@terraxgaming4117]

Yo I've seen you today wtf

[@quit-5027]

Terrax Gaming. who me?

[@dubwilly7134]

Jokes on you I don't even live

[@chelsey8737]

I was like ummm ok but then i saw the name and laughed

[@NotDerek._.T]

How does he know its not a shit covered mattress

[@GoodestKitty]

Roaches shit so technically it is

[@novastar3990]

Ferguson101 You’ve never seen a weeaboo walk before?

[@mr.potatoeshead5317]

@Ferguson101 wait til you watch South Park. You'll realize you've been lied to.

[@gersonponce5764]

Oh it is a shit covered mattress . A roach shit covered mattress

[@geebuttersnaps773]

He looked with his eyes

[@piggiesmalls4]

How did the guy whose place was THAT infested with roaches manage to not call an exterminator until THAT point. Jeez 🪳

[@infallibleblue]

@@magnetohex703 good for you in trying to help her. Sometimes they have no one to help, refuse help, or can’t see the truth. It’s tough, but you tried.

[@infallibleblue]

Mental illness is really hard on friends and family if they have any.

[@shahab814]

@@magnetohex703 Good guy Pablo Escobar

[@shahab814]

As others have said, Mental Illness, I once went to my gf uncles house, and the whole house was infested with roaches. Like the way this guy describes, I went to home depot and bought Boric Acid and Roach spray, and I went back and sprayed the whole house. Unfortunately, 2 days later his uncle got a stroke and ended up in the hospital for 2 years.

[@magrebtraveler]

Don’t forget about the Bed Bug. Live in a prewar building , those things go from one apartment to another. Left NYC and never going back.

[@ctnative203]

magrebtraveler lol where were you living ?

[@mochamommyATX]

God bless him for taking on a job to make our lives safer and better.

[@benjaminogle11]

“Don’t live in a pre-war building, next to a park, or near a restaurant.” Gotcha...so basically all of NYC?

[@Lifxzvb]

I wake up every morning like damn I don’t feel like going to work(mind you I work at a grocery store lol) but then think to myself like hmmmm there’s other people out there who got it harder than me so I get my ass up. Respect to all exterminators and all people who have hard jobs where they have to be brave 💯

[@DEVINdevdev]

get yourself roaches and rats. you would never want to take those long naps and sleep in.

[@sagatuppercut2960]

Working in a grocery store is hell.

[@sercanfreak1]

Jokes on you guys, Im a rat. And now I know all ya'll trick.

[@Rob_Lerch]

I remember touring apartments in NYC. The first apartment I went into was on the first floor, next to a restaurant. The real estate agent proceeded to show me the bathroom, where we found a roach in the toilet. She said it wasn’t a roach, and flushed it down. I left immediately.

[@genxnomad1978]

Probably told you it was 'just a water bug,' huh?? I have heard that 1 before.

[@Rob_Lerch]

@@genxnomad1978 Thats exactly what she said lol

[@MiniM69]

This man is a hero! You do God’s work, sir!

[@AngelaNakiyingi]

Really wanted to hear the rest of the roach apartment story 🙄

[@ariellekaplan707]

That's scary af

[@brehaorgana9409]

I honestly thought a dead body was going to be involved

[@RetNemmoc555]

This can happen in small town buildings too. In my first apartment, a contractor on my floor arranged with tenants and the building owner - If he paid for materials residents would pitch in labor to seal the building. My job was to go around with steel wool and a caulking gun on my floor. Others worked in the basement and foundation, entries, windows, pipes, electrical. All the complaining in the world didn't get this fixed until the tenants pitched in. I didn't have so much as an ant crawling on my kitchen counter after we did that. Not every building has people that will work together like that, though. It took a strong personality who knew what he was talking about to get results.

[@j134679]

even whole gated communities in suburbia. The whole HOA must coordinate with pest control otherwise it'll just be a game of cat & mouse with the pests just moving between houses.

[@Rae-bs2jq]

0:44 😲Yo, rats in New York have webbed feet.

[@derricke5745]

They leveled up

[@unknown-fz1kc]

For swimming

[@v06261]

Rae it’s a coypu lol

[@alexmaddox8307]

they evolved this trait to swim

[@justicem4495]

+1 Rats

[@c-light7624]

Oh My God...kill me now. When he started talking about getting foods from restaurants and infesting your home that way, my heart and stomach sank. Jesus.

[@mrpower328]

There's roaches and rats in the processed foods you eat

[@jhova187]

Was born and raised in a prewar building in Nyc, no matter how much you clean they come from cracks crevices. I saw an albino roach 2x in my life time

[@Icybubbles945]

Exterminators don’t get enough credit 😭

[@fl00fydragon]

Moral of the story. Burn everything and run away screaming.

[@wturner777]

You can burn all you want, but roaches will still be there. They can survive an apocalypse.

[@rangerbud]

As an air-conditioner repairman 30 years ago ( I was in college,) I had the experience of walking down in the basement of a Manhattan restaurant. As I walked into abasement electric utility room, experienced the site of a room in which every inch of floor, ceiling and walls were crawling with roaches; they crunched under my feet. I really don't go to restaurants a lot as an adult.....

[@cyberdroid2300]

Who else has goosbumps throughout the start of the video? I cannot fathom a wall of roaches.

[@Youngboyfan42069]

So basically this guy cut out 90% of new york

[@kapa4929]

Shoutout to all the bug exterminators. A job thats actually worth appreciation and respect.

[@wallysmithii117]

I got a bowl and fork in the sink now with water in it. I'm about to go wash it

[@Karmen2010]

I live in the south and I NEVER leave dirty dishes in the sink.

[@TheCinnamondemon]

Same, not me taking out the trash randomly at 2 am 😭

[@ccbl6270]

i opened this video while i was eating biggest mistake of my life

[@sanjayraju988]

You idiot, didn’t you read the title???

[@emmanueloladosu8987]

As a teen born and raised in NYC, this is very much true. You will see a lot of rats in places like the train tracks, below construction, and especially in old houses like the gug said.

[@tiffany8154]

I live in nyc and this just makes me scared to eat at restaurants

[@geensjc]

Be right back, just going to clean my entire house and throw away everything

[@frankd8957]

Many years ago I was a telephone repairman in lower Manhattan, back in the days when the phone was wired to a square covered terminal block. I was sent to a nice restaurant to repair a phone whose bell would not ring. First thing to do is tap the terminal block on the wall with your hammer and stand back. The covered terminal blocks were typically roach motels. The reason why the phone would not ring is due to the bell hammer being jammed with - guess what - and would not hit the two brass bells. A telephone company foreman happened to be in the restaurant and he came over to me, took the wire cutters out of my tool bag and cut the connecting wire at the terminal block. He carried the phone by the wire to outdoors and flung the phone into the back of a nearby NYC trash truck. Thank you for saving me from unclogging the phone!

[@TehTechExpert]

You want to kill roaches in your home? Follow these steps Identify the problem they getting through the walls, sinks, ceiling, under doors, floors, vents etc make sure they are secured as possible. Next clean up your home if there is food laying around good luck. Clean your tables and floors cover the trash bins. Just have good habits should reduce them no food no roaches. Next is the fun part KILLING THEM Advion is the best pest control guys use them for work. I've used a mix of ant/roach versions extremely effective. Put them in the cracks of cabinets, tables, draws, walls, holes anything that roaches will hide or run to is a good place. Females love cracks to lay eggs put them there. Near refrigerators, microwaves, stoves, computers, tv's, under sinks put it everywhere. Only a tiny tiny drop should do. Make sure sinks and pipes are sealed tight. I use regular roach houses and I cut the sides better so more roaches can get into them usually companies sell the same roach house just cut the sides differently and sell higher cost. I also buy generic gels that that dont kill them immediately this is important to cycle your poison you dont want them to build tolerance. Boric acid with bait it goes all over their body and antennaes literally sucks the life out of them when they clean themselves. And they bring it back to their nests and they leave it on their paths. I dump it around the corners on the floor near trash, around the toilet everywhere. It's easy to clean and non-toxic you can literally eat a spoonful(dont do it). Dont use poison to kill them immediately you want them to bring it to their nest their families their eggs their buddies. They eat each other and they eat each others poop if it has boric acid has some advion cya buddy. I dont even bother to kill them if I'll give them a quick blast of boric acid. There are hundreds of different gels ingredients use them wisely ones that dont kill immediately are the best mix and match. I've gotten rid of my roach problem when my neighbor moved all the roaches come to our home. This stopped them dead in couple weeks. replace gel every 4-6 months GL MY FRIENDS.

[@comradecat1922]

Dude, do you really have to write a novel about the video

[@TehTechExpert]

@@comradecat1922 For the greater good of mankind... YES.

[@PetrukStarker]

solid advice, also if you've just moved to empty house/apartment try dusting the whole house with (food grade) diatomaceous earth

[@sixrats]

@@TehTechExpert the hero we need but don't deserve

[@ritzkola2302]

WOPPER more advice oh wise one!

[@paranoid5881]

Yeah, I'm not moving to New York...I'll visit but not gonna live there.

[@gn2665]

I know it’s something weird to say but this guy sounds like he is so nice, a good person, he’s good looking, I hope he found a good and respectful woman

[@jonseres]

You gathered this by him talking about roaches and rats?

[@alexacoupet]

@@jonseres yes.

[@harrygirl56]

Some people are just too cringe to live

[@garythree]

“Pests go from the ground up” You don’t say. I thought rats flew into multilevel buildings.

[@cQ2DHPavXTqemm9Vsbgi4TV7x]

Gary Hudoff III 😂😂😂W H E E Z E😂😂😂

[@svyalinirnhut890]

all jokes aside, roaches can actually fly.

[@toshinouu3306]

Fascist Dragon皇龍 stop we dont speak of that

[@swevixeh]

Rats did 9/11

[@Atombender]

Some Middle Eastern Rats did 18 years ago.

[@ItzMeWill]

I freaked out just looking at the animated cockroaches on this video. I can't imagine seeing hundred of roaches in my house

[@janetdavidson8798]

Lived in Alabama for 33 years. No matter how clean you keep your house they sneak in. They love the humidity there. So gross. I loved the friendly people and beautiful green landscape. I moved to a dry western state and never saw a roach the 3 years I've been here.

[@ToLovelyJesus]

Our next door neighbors had a really bad roach infestation, and we didn’t discover it until they moved out. We kept wondering why we were getting roaches despite spraying and cleaning regularly. If you can afford to NOT live in an apartment, please don’t!

[@DWilliam1]

Over 20 years ago I lived on E27th street between 2nd and 3rd. I started noticing roaches mostly in the hallway and a few in my apartment. I called up the building owner(6 floor walk up building) and he sent out an exterminator. The guy shows up squirts some stuff around and starts looking around the building. He notices the garbage chute and shines a light in there. He called me over(I was following around) and noticed the wall moving it was covered in wall to wall roaches. We go down stairs and the entire brick wall was shimmering with roaches. At first you couldn’t tell because it was the entire wall, but it was moving. The guy gets on his phone and tells his boss he has never seen anything like this before. Next thing we know we all have to leave the building for 24 hours as they sealed the building and pumped in some kind of poison. I’ll never forget it. Roach issue cured.

[@ctnative203]

D William damn they fixed the issue in 24 hrs ?

[@DWilliam1]

ctnative203 it might have been 48 hours. I don’t remember it was a while ago. They did “tent” the whole building and posted signs with skulls and cross bones to stay away.

[@feintfaint7213]

These stories Im reading getting more horrifying than ghost stories

[@katarinastankovic1526]

i never thought i would fear doing a job, but this is a job i'd be absolutely terrified to do

[@wturner777]

You and me both, and I live in the southeast region of the US and we get more than just roaches and rats.

[@justapseudonym7]

My boyfriend used to be an exterminator, his stories are wild 😭🤣 also got somebody to kill bugs for me lol

[@Galvatron_Studios]

Whenever I kill one big fat roach I always tell my mom “whenever you see one roach there is never just one”

[@____Anonymous___]

Imagine those who sleep with their open mouth lol hell no

[@MsTuliplady]

I can attest to this. Lived in a pre-war building in Brooklyn, on top of non-food retail shops. Was great for 6 years. Then one of the stores below was converted to a chicken restaurant. Within a month, mice everywhere. And they were brazen. Would get right on the kitchen counter as you were putting food away from a grocery errand and take a bite out of a loaf of bread. We moved out in months...

[@brainey001]

I was extremely scared of roaches and mice as a child so i developed a hearing... When there is one of them in the house i would know and i will find it... I've been detecting it in peoples houses and they were shocked but i can't help it because as a child i could not sleep peacefully knowing they could be around and with time my ears started to buzz and detect the sounds roaches make with their antennas and just the presence of a mouse, it doesn't need to do anything for me to fall dead silent and focus and once it makes a move i know exactly where it is... I'm also very good at catching them based on knowing where they are and where theyre going...it'll take 5 minutes for it to fall in my sticky trap. I can also creep on a cat or dog without it hearing me

[@ctnative203]

lol if this is true you would go crazy in new york

[@VDR2612]

You have super powers

[@TatuSings]

You need to see a psychologist

[@lucin2586]

💀

[@LITMOVIESCENES]

creeper

[@HTPCYMC]

That’s how New York works

[@nm56342]

also Vermin look for a come up, they also want to improve their standards of life, lol.

[@Press_X_to_doubt]

LOL'ed at that face. 😂

[@fortnitexminecraftclips525]

How to properly clean your metal computer that’s why it’s a shitty city

[@SS40-nah]

I heard a couple people who live in buildings/apartment complexes say, "If one person got roaches, EVERYBODY got roaches!" 🤢🤮

[@j134679]

@Mr. Canadian dumbass The bugs will still try to migrate. I spent so much money on chalk & sticky pads for my previous apartments front door. Every morning I was cleaning dead roaches that tried to get in ugh. Moved to a detached house with wrap around yard & had the exterminators bomb the place & the yard. Unfortunately rats are the problem in the yard now. They burrow under ground. They can't get in but it's still annoying knowing they're out there. Not sure I wanna nuke them because other wildlife might die too

[@m4_amg530]

this is why new buildings matter

[@empyrean196]

Rats are iconic to New York City, but I never expected roaches. I thought the rats ate every other pestilence. Lol

[@bbygrlpt2]

THE COSMOLOGY Lmao roaches run NYC! U cant get away from them no matter how clean u are they will always find a way.

[@ricecakeboii94]

Rats were brought in by early European Settlers. Just imagine, if the early explorers did a better job with traveling pests there wouldn’t be a single rat in NYC.

[@rmw090]

somehow i doubt that lol

[@greenmachine5600]

If only

[@caesar5588]

If the early explorers did a better job some irresponsible people would still fucked it up later

[@free_boiling4502]

Its impossible that not a single rat makes it across im houndreds of years of sea travel between europe and america

[@shanescatsandcannabisfarm2965]

They should have brought alot more CATS 🐱 on board with them. They did do that but apparently not enough 😆 thats actually why cats can be found ALL over the world. Like literally. They took cats on the ship to help with the rodents and the cats also would breed. 100's of years of this has spread cats to every continent and probably every country on the planet.

[@stevelovessialetsdance5966]

This guy is more brave then me if I went anybody's, house and, saw, all those roaches I would run and never look back.. 🐛.

[@prokopjonas]

I used to live in a prewar apartment right next to morningside park, and I would hear the rats inside my walls fighting sometimes...it was the grossest thing I’ve ever experienced

[@christinehutchins123]

Rat fights...🤦

[@blink184]

Revolting.

[@fluffalexx]

Exactly why I would never live in a pre-war building. I was just having this convo with my mom the other day. Those building are old and usually the people who live in those buildings have roach and rodent problems. But if you keep your house clean, they won’t stay in your apartment because there’s no food for them to get in to. People need to also make sure any openings are stuffed snd plastered over so the rats/mice won’t eat through it.

[@janetslater129]

It would also help if the building itslef is up to code so that the rodents can't get in.

[@dbrav727]

Rodents enter buildings from the ground up? Who would’ve thought

[@Dina52328]

Oh yuk, reminds me of the time 35 years ago when I lived in a roach infested apartment complex in west Texas. The roaches were those smaller ones, not the big ones and no matter what the apartment management did to get rid of them it was futile. Exterminator would come periodically and spray, other times roach bombs were used and the renters had to leave their apts for a while to let the fumes do the work; meticulous cleaning did not work either. The roaches were so bold that as soon as you would start cooking the roaches would come out crawling all over the counters, and the stove, and see what was for dinner, or breakfast or lunch. The infestation was behind the walls of every apt unit and IMO that whole apt complex needed to be torn down. But, of course, the owners were not going to destroy hundreds of apts because they were making a lot of money with the rents. I moved out as soon as I could but it was the most disgusting thing living there. 😜😝. BTW that apt complex is still there with a new name, fresh outside paint, and the rent has tripled. Go figure.

[@jhors7777]

Thank you for posting this! You really explained this very well.

[@rgw1380rw]

I've lived right across the street from a big park in Queens for 21 years. I've never had to deal with anything more than the usual raccoons when the weather gets warm. I do see many rats when I'm heading to work in Manhattan's Chelsea area though.

[@ShyMplsMale]

This is the reason I always live on the top floor in an apartment complex.

[@POWER-LINKS]

I keep a spray bottle with a strong solution of water and Dawn dish liquid for cleaning dishes at the river when camping. So one time, during a winter storm I came to town and and stayed in a motel converted into weekly rentals in case it got really bad. I went to the store for supplies and bought some Raid roach spray because that place had roaches. One night I went in to the bathroom and saw a roach on the bathroom sink. The roach spray was out in the motel room so I grabbed the dish liquid spray so I could stick him to the sink while I went and grabbed the Raid. The dish liquid solution killed the roach almost instantly. It took maybe 10 steps and died. I used Raid on the next roach I saw in there and it made it all the way off the sink and down to the floor before it died. It does the same thing to bees, wasps, spiders and every other insect that I've sprayed it on. NO POISON NECESSARY. No shit. A true game changer. Now I can put garbage in my trash can and just give a healthy dose of that spray inside the trash can. Ain't no flies or roaches around my apartment at all. NONE.

[@hermanmunster22]

Just dawn and water???

[@POWER-LINKS]

@@hermanmunster22 That's it.

[@wwaex7573]

So everywhere in new york😂😂😂 guess he ain’t living there

[@gottaluvpink89]

Adam Ellis lol he must travel to Jersey after work

[@TheStarswearee]

Ya

[@ApartmentKing66]

@@gottaluvpink89 Yeah, I was just thinking "Jersey suburbs" myself.