I was very excited to see the American Reunion movie. I saw American Pie just after college and remembered it was quite funny.
Jim, Michelle, Oz, Heather, Stifler reunite for their high school...
Actually, Harley, a lot of the rats we get in America don't come up from ground level. They're Norwegian roof rats. They move across phone and power lines and go from rooftop to rooftop, chew their way in on the top, and come down, often inside the walls. So it doesn't really matter which floor you're on.
Sweet dreams.
You're still better off on the upper floors than in a garden apartment. At least here in Chicago, they're just referred to as "rat traps", as the existence of this thread attests..
I had a run in with swarm of sewer rats on a beach once, it was like a Sci Fi Channel original movie. The sound that they made was ungodly, so naturally a friend of mine threw a big rock at them.
Then they must be experts, because I don't even know anyone who's seen a rat in the wild since the 1950's and I come from farmer-types on both sides of the family, my dad's and the other one.
We get fruit (roof) rats in the backyard due to the citrus trees (FL). They also gorge themselves on birdseed if we don't take the feeders in at night. They then in return, attract snakes. Ah Florida.