I live on the second floor and it’s NBD. Used to live on the third floor of the same building and that was a little worse, only because the stairwell isn’t climate controlled so it gets very steamy in the summer. Still, not a big deal.

Importantly though, I hardly ever have to carry a large load of groceries up the stairs. I live near a corner shop and get most of my groceries there as I run out of stuff, so I hardly ever have to do the big shop. And when I do need stuff from a supermarket, I order from Instacart, so the delivery person will do the stairs with my stuff.

I was not a huge fan of walking up several stories for everything, no.

Normally it’s just more inconvenient to do anything, like getting mail or groceries - slightly, but it does add up. When moving in or out or replacing furniture, anything like that, it’s suddenly very inconvenient.

On the bright side, I guess the extra exercise probably doesn’t hurt.

6th floor, no elevator. I think of it as part of my daily exercise. It doesn’t bother me day to day, but moving in sucked. I think I would be annoyed waiting for an elevator.

It has never bothered me. I paid movers to get my shit up here, and they did. It is rare that an extra flight of stairs or two matters on your way to/from the car.

My wife and I lived in a 3rd floor walkup and yes it could be annoying but we loved it because we had three facings and lots of light. We left because after some knee surgery it was just not doable long term. The passive excersise was sorta nice but you have to be able to handle it.

It wasn’t a big issue until I screwed up my ankle really bad. A couple years later I messed up my back and moved out.

I used to work in public health in NYC. I got to see all the people comign into the hospital. The elderly folks who had lived their whole lives on the higher floors of walkup apartments were almost always in great shape compared to their contemporaries who weren’t getting exercise every day.

I didn’t really care day-to-day but it’s awful moving into/out of one or any other time you have to carry a lot. I did it when I was young without minding too much but wouldn’t even try now that I’m old enough that my knees can tell when a storm is coming.

Yeah, I liked it. I carried the groceries two or three blocks from the store already, what’s a couple flights of stairs?

I did in college and I liked it.

I didn’t necessarily like it because no elevator, and I was only on the third floor, but the lack of an elevator was never much of a problem.

I do remember at the depth of my depression, those stairs seemed like to much at times.

But looking back, knowing what I now know about psychology, those stairs were actually helping me with the depression.

I had an apartment in the 5th floor without an elevator. I liked it at the time and it had some advantages (great view of the city, cheap rent) but was horrendously impractical if you needed to carry anything big up. Even simple things like taking out the trash were really annoying.

Never had an elevator, but the highest I’ve ever been is the third floor. I loved it, but yeah I definitely made 1 trip for groceries

I spent a week in Denmark in a fourth floor apartment without elevators. It’s normal there. You also only buy a day or two worth of groceries at a time from stores like Aldi.

Honestly, doing laundry in the basement when I lived on the 3rd floor was the most annoying part of having no elevator.

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