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Fox5Atlanta<\/a>: Atlanta named in the top ten most rat-infested cities in the country (#10)<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m not even going to try and defend the city, or think of any excuses to why this is.\u00a0 There have been plenty of times in my life where I\u2019ve thought to myself, or out loud, the phrase, what a fucking shithole<\/em> when going around and about the city.\u00a0 Short of any of the areas where the gentrification bombs have exploded, there\u2019s lots of parts of Atlanta that are complete shitholes, that I\u2019m not the least bit surprised to hear that the aggregate of the city breaks the top-10 in most rat-infested cities in America.<\/span><\/p>\n What I do find ironically offensive and laughably embarrassing is Atlanta\u2019s ranking in comparison to supposed less-rat-infested cities that I would\u2019ve figured to be way bigger shithole rat-infested places than Atlanta.\u00a0 Like come on really, Baltimore (#11) is a less rat-infested city than Atlanta?\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 I find that very hard to believe.\u00a0 Sure, it\u2019s just a difference of one spot separating the two, but like in any competition, a one-point win is still a win.<\/span><\/p>\n I also heavily argue Detroit (#16) and Miami (#22) as somehow being less rat-infested than Atlanta is.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to both those cities too, and much like Baltimore, they\u2019ve all seemed like bigger shitholes that would have rat infestations than Atlanta does.<\/span><\/p>\n The funny thing is that no matter how long I\u2019ve been down here, walked streets, and been around old Turner Field especially, I\u2019ve actually never seen a rat in the wild.\u00a0 Dead or alive.\u00a0 I know they\u2019re out there, and I\u2019ve definitely seen places that have clearly been occupied by rats, but I\u2019ve never actually seen one out in the wild.\u00a0 I have seen rats in Baltimore and Miami though, with the latter not being more than just two months ago when I was barely in city proper for a few hours prior to the start of my cruise.<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps all these other cities with surprisingly low rankings are just so plagued with squalor that nobody\u2019s just contacting Terminix and boosting their numbers, and the rats are just overrunning these entire cities?\u00a0 Seems more plausible than being ranked better than Atlanta is.<\/span><\/p>\n But metrics are metrics, and as much as I ironically want to cry foul and point out that there seems to be a correlation between rat-infestation and general size of markets, it\u2019s not something worth the effort to debate.\u00a0 When it comes to arguing over who\u2019s more rat-infested it\u2019s like asking yourself if you\u2019d rather have herpes or the clap, because no matter what side of the argument you come out on, you\u2019re still fucked.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fox5Atlanta: Atlanta named in the top ten most rat-infested cities in the country (#10) I\u2019m not even going to try and defend the city, or think of any excuses to why this is.\u00a0 There have been plenty of times in my life where I\u2019ve thought to myself, or out loud, the phrase, what a fucking … Continue reading Oh, Ratlanta #488<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,143,52,49],"class_list":["post-50193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50195,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50193\/revisions\/50195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}