| Comment | This is great example of why I get so confused by these claims of dire circumstance in Govanhill: " Tenements are infested with cockroaches"
Of all the things you could have chosen to mention, the claim you make is cockroaches. And yet, while Glasgow (as a whole) has a relatively high callout rate for cockroaches, compared to some other cities, it is still only a few hundred call outs per year for \*the whole city\*. Bearing in mind that many of these callouts will be revisits to failed extermination attempts, that number is far from high - there are 2 - 3 \*thousand\* callouts per year for both mice and rats, separately. There are more callouts for bedbugs than cockroaches - yet you insist that the tenements are \*infested\* with them.
This is why the claims about Govanhill confuse me - because they always assert it is an awful place, then make some (often easily) verifiably false declaration to back up the claim.
Now, maybe when you lived here, your flat was riddled with cockroaches - and I don't deny that some of the claims made by others *may* have been true at some point - but that does not mean those issues extend to all tenements/streets/people for all time, and I genuinely don't understand why some people are so keen to claim it does. |
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