We've had occasional small roof rats around here but as of the last couple of years it seems our neighbor's wonderful young cat has reduced their population to zero.
A little old neighborhood grocery store was torn down eighteen years ago and our neighbor across the street had a large rat relocate from the store crawl space, we surmised, to our neighbors' bathroom closet where she found it happily gnawing on a bar of Ivory soap. Her husband hit it with something the next time he saw it.
One time I was helping a friend of mine deliver his sculpture to the back door of a gallery in Boston at dusk. He said, "You probably don't want to get out of the car in the alley, rats might be running around."
If you park in a city alley, where garbage bins are usually kept, chances are you'll see a bit of scurrying going on. Not a place to wear sandals. 
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