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

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 was fine. In NYC roommates and I have been in different apartments that were both 5 and 6 floor walkups. This was when we were in our 20’s - early 40’s. Thing is that after a few weeks you don’t really notice the stairs anymore. Bonus is your legs will be pretty strong!

Sure we also had to lug groceries/laundry up the same flight of stairs, a bit annoying but nothing unusual. Didn’t have a car either so all that stuff would get carried x amount of blocks from the apartment or even a subway trip.

In my late 40’s / going into 50’s I’m not so sure I’d still do those type of walkups anymore.

PS - Yeah pay for movers when doing moves in/out of walkup buildings, you really don’t want to do that yourself. It’s fine when you only need to go up the stairs once/twice a day but repeatedly for a move is much harder.

3rd floor

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

It’s ok, I think more about the apartment itself than the stairwell up to it but it’s an ok enough stairwell.

Fine for living without children.

But moving in and out was a lot of work.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I did once in college. I lived in the attic of an old Victorian house so three floors up. Old crappy stairs. I loved it. It was only me though and my girlfriend for a bit so not much groceries to carry up.

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