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

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.

Lived 4th floor for 2y (4th floor as in 4th floors up from the ground floor), good for exercise

3rd floor

You buy less stupid shit because you have to carry it. Also never skip leg day.

Third floor (two sets of stairs), ten years with my mother. Groceries were the worst, but you haul and you get used to it. The human brain and body can get used to a lot of things. Carrying groceries is not one of the worst things it can get used to. Not even close lmao.

Exactly how much groceries do people have? I currently live two stairs up from the ground floor as I have lived for more than 15 years. It has honestly never even crossed my mind that carrying up groceries could ever be a problem.

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

It used to annoy me when I still had a car, because I had to carry up a lot more groceries at once and I was an unfit sack of shit. Now I walk to the store every three days or so, meaning the weight is a lot less at once and it’s just a minor extension of my evening walk…

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.

Fine for living without children.

But moving in and out was a lot of work.

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.

Day to day life was fine but it sucked ass when…

1. Moving furniture in or throwing out/giving away old furniture
2. You buy too many groceries at once
3. You store your bike upstairs

I’ve had in unit laundry so I can’t comment on that

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 have not, but I had a friend who always ended up getting apartments on the 3rd floor, and I helped him move several times. Would not recommend.

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.