Rats and mice will always be around no matter where you are. We've lived together for thousands of years, we aren't gonna change that. But rats aren't IN your house. They are mainly outside with the raccoons. For the most part, your house/apartment/building isn't going to be infested, but you're gonna see or hear them every so often

Anything in Worcester under $1200 is fair game for some kind of infestation.

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Outside is A OK. I heard mice often come inside, at least in Boston

I live in an old house (1850s) in a rural area, and we get mice in the walls all the time, usually in the winter. (Never in the actual living space, and never rats.)

We've rented in Boston, Somerville, Newton, Westboro, Lowell and Arlington and have never had mice or rats in any of these apartments. We have had three mice in our owned home. Two times because we left the basement door open. I do not know how the third got in but it might have been the same thing. We've lived here since the 1980s and we're near a wooded area so I guess that's reasonable.

I grew up an hour outside Boston and we always got the occasional mouse in the house. Never had any rats until my parents got chickens. They set traps and secured the coop and food better and haven't seen any rats since.

I've seen a few mice in my Boston dorms/apartments over the years, but not many. Never heard of a rat going into someone's home though. They usually get into trash/compost outside.

There everywhere, I was living in a building in Lowell that was recently shut down for having to many mice and caused poor air quality due to the mice shitting on top of the drop ceilings.

I live in an old house right outside of Boston and we get mice sometimes. So do a lot of other people in my neighborhood. I've only seen rats outside.

Mice are common everywhere. Like EVERYWHERE.

They're inversely common to the number of cats you have.

Rodents could be anywhere in the world that has a food source attracting them and a method for rodent entrance in your dwelling.

I don't get any but I'm on the second floor and non of my pipes allow entrance but I have seen dead mice in the parking lot.

Trailors are actually the worst for rodents and insects for sure ,stay away from mobile homes if you don't want vistors

You had more than three mice, there is never just a few homie

I live in southeastern MA and have only seen rats in Boston, Worcester and Providence and the surrounding areas but mice are everywhere. Mice are fairly easy to control though.

We live in the 'burbs. Occasionally mice get in the attic. Keep glue traps up there just in case. The pest service will inspect for openings into the attic when they are spraying for ants. They close them off with caulking or steel wool shoved into any areas mice can squeeze through. Haven't had issues in the last 4 or 5 years. At one point they chewed through a pipe insulation to get in and it tool a week or two to get them all. The key is to address it quickly. If you wait, the house can get overrun fast.

Mice will come into your house during the fall and winter Months especially as it’s nice and warm, plenty of places they can hide, and a crapload of edible stuff and water source… we had em a couple of years ago out of the blue and it was a real pain to get rid of them.. thanks to my supercat and glue traps, we managed to kill around 40 in total… I know glue traps, but seriously it’s the only thing that really works… poisons, humane traps just don’t do it… and mice in a house are regally dangerous because they chew wires, and carry so many bad bugs…

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Very find holes, fix holes