More generally, they like dark, cool places where they aren't likely to be disturbed. For a few years in my childhood, my mother and I shared a small house with

More generally, they like dark, cool places where they aren't likely to be disturbed. For a few years in my childhood, my mother and I shared a small house with a widow who'd set up housekeeping between the toilet tank and the wall; we got along fine, no doubt as much due to her ability to keep well fed in an old and not well constructed rural home, as to the respect we were careful to maintain in our dealings with her.