YUCK! I grew up in "projects" (well, til I was 4 or 5). Roaches everywhere. Rats in one house we had

To this day, mom FREAKS whenever she sees ANY bug. She has so many bad nightmares about the roaches. She said they'd fumigate every few months, where she'd have to leave the house for 2 days (this was back in the 70s) and when we'd return, there'd be a pile of roach bodies wall to wall. She said it looked like a roach carpet. Thank goodness I have no memory of it... it makes me itchy and crepy feeling just thinking about it!

Knock on wood, no roaches here.