5th Floor Walk Up?

[Moderate Guy]

Originally Posted by SOON2BNSURPRISE

Do these places have air conditioning?

nah, but you bring it up the 5 flights and stick it in the window.

[Moderate Guy]

When you live in a fifth floor walkup, you learn a few techniques to make lfe easy. I used to have my visitors stop in at the grocer's and bring any items I needed for the evening thus saving me a trip up and down those stairs. When they were ready to leave, I'd have them take my garbage down on their way out.

There are advantages too to being so high - you can hang your laundry on a line between buildings without passersby noticing your selection of intimates, you have a good view of the neighborhood from above, if you have an "active life when the lights go out," sounds usually don't go down and there's rarely an up to go when you're on a 5th walkup.

Yeah, there are pluses and minuses to that form of housing.

[WhereInTheWorldIsPetra]

If after a long day at work or a good night out partying, you can get yourself to walk up five flights of stairs, then I'd say go for it.

Do you have roof access?

[Moderate Guy]

Originally Posted by WhereInTheWorldIsPetra

Do you have roof access?

Oh no.....in my case that would have been a minus. No one caring to visit, lonely nights up there, tired of lugging a.c.'s., furniture, bicycle, gas cylinders, up and down..I'd wanna throw myself off the roof!!! lol.

[aadam101]

I live in a 4th floor walkup. Not a big deal.

[passdoubt]

I live in a 4th floor walkup. I don't mind it. It's good exercise. I'd rather be on a lower floor, sure, but the rent's a little lower up here.

[NJ Chutzpah]

Living on the fifth floor is great exercise

Just about everyone today will benefit from walking up those many flights of stairs, a few times a day

My RE instructor said the elevator law in 5+ floors buildings is because walking that many steps is bad for your heart

I think that is Mod cut: language

two of my buildings are five floors and I walk up those steps as many times as I can

[canyontothesky]

I lived in a 6th floor walk up for a year. I never huffed and puffed to get up and down, but I never went out because I dreaded it. Laundry, groceries sucked. Moving in/out sucked. It was so hot up there, too, we ran the AC all winter (utilities were paid, so what did I care?) We had to move because my dog needed leg surgeries and we would have had to carry her up and down for 8 months. So we moved to a building with an elevator.

[UWS Cowboy]

My building in Manhattan Valley is perfect. I live on the 5th floor (top), walk up. No way in hell could they put an elevator in this building, and I don't mind it. Only problem is my grandparents coming to visit me...