If you have ever lived in an apartment block, how high up was your flat?

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The tallest apartment block I ever lived in was in Hong Kong, and I lived on the 34th floor.

You?

― C J (C J), Monday, 14 July 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

currently on second floor, have lived as high as the 4th.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

[obligatory Television Personalities joke]

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on the 4th floor in a prewar walkup hellhole.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

4th floor, but from my window it was five floors and you could see the Bay of Fundy on a good day. Well sorta.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on the 3rd.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I grew up on the 23rd floor. My apartment now is on the ground floor of an eight-story building.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy mackerel, this used to be my apartment!! (The one I like to imagine Betty Page stayed in (she talks about having lived on 46th St between 5th and 6th Aves)) I paid $800 a month for the studio they mention. It's now going for $3300 a month@@@@!! It was on the 5th floor. I've never lived in a tower block before.

But why do you ask?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

nice floral bedding, sissy
http://www.arc-corporate-housing.com/images/apimages/arc_ap88_i1l.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm only on the second floor, but you should see how huge the flight of stairs is! It probably wouldn't be so terrible if I didn't have a knee problem, but as it is it is kind of a bitch.

― Lars (Nicole), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

We were just talking about this at work today and I wondered who amongst the ILXers had lived high up in a tower block, that's all. I liked living on the 34th floor - there was a sort of snobbery about how high up you lived in Hong Kong - the rent was more expensive the higher you went, for some reason. Daft, I know.

― C J (C J), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Less street noise, better view?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

frequent nosebleeds

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to live on the third floor of this building....
http://www.corcoran.com/images/media/BldgPhotos/157.1.jpg

...but am now on the fifth floor of another building.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I know that building!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

4th floor.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 14 July 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My apartment is on the fifth floor (the highest I've ever lived). However, the building is built into a hill so steep that the front door is on the first floor, and the back door on the fifth.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

That's amazing!

― C J (C J), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You can see the Warbasse Houses (where I grew up) behind the Lincoln High baseball diamond. The ILXors who were with me on the trip to Coney Island got to walk past my old building.

http://www.lincolnhsbrooklyn.com/tourfield1.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on the 3rd floor (UK style) in a pre-1900 walkup heavenhole.

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

where I be now....

http://www.idouglaselliman.com/elliman_data/PropertyPics/562180.1.JPG

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude! An awning and everything...

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/images/myhouse.jpg

My house during a blizzard.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on the second floor. Or is that the first floor, as the first floor is the ground floor. I exist on both floors.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I live on the top floor of this building....

http://well-of-souls.com/tower/dtgamelq.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you get attacked by arrows often?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the thread where I talk about how often I played that game in the early eighties (answer: quite often).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ally i know exactly where that is. i live in a 3rd-floor walkup and my apartment in france will be a 4th-floor walkup i believe.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, did the street sign help? ;)

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 July 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Never in an apartment block. Lived in what we call a maisonette, which is like a terraced house on top of another row of terraced houses. Do you have them in America?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The highest I ever lived was on the 9th floor - now the first/second.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't even noticed the street sign!

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I live on the second floor.

― Luca (Lara), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

luna do you mean to say what was once the 9th floor is now the first or second?

that must have been some hurricane.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Currently on the 14th floor of a shiny new building.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah well this IS LA - earthquakes are a bitch!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Douglas: is the bloke next door a Jamaican?

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you get attacked by arrows often?

Constantly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the thread where I talk about how often I played that game in the early eighties (answer: quite often).

I LOVED "Dark Tower". It was like Crack for me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Geek.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't make me smite thee with a vorpal sword of reckoning, foul temptress!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time I lived in an apartment block, I was 12 and living in Brooklyn, NY. No crack addicts, so no stereotypes;> It was about 30 stories high---but not high enough to play Wonder Woman.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

did that tower play tchaikovsky's "1812 overture" when you won? if so, i had that game (sort of a lonely person's RPG).

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and i'm on the 4th of 4 floors (although who knows for how much longer).

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

did that tower play tchaikovsky's "1812 overture" when you won?

Yea Verily!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

grew up on 17, now live on 34

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Most non-tower residential buildings in Montreal are three stories high, or sometimes four. The third floor is always the most coveted. And that's where I live hahaha!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Townhouse here, so first and second floor, I guess (ditto when I lived in Mass). Second floor, first floor, first floor, second floor, respectively, for my various apartments in New Orleans. Benefits -- second floor, no floods, less need to spray for bugs (I never needed to spray, in that first apt.); first floor, much easier for grocery shopping and cheaper hospital visits [they made me stay an extra day in the hospital after surgery cause I lived on the second floor].

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Highest I've ever lived is the sixth-floor WALKUP on E. 13th between First and Second when I first left college. Ed and I are on the first (UK style) floor here; most places I lived before were on the second or third floors.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha. I lived on the fifth floor my freshman year of college. After that I moved to the solitary dorms and lived on the 3rd floor (room 303! Ner nwynwy nyowr nyowrr ner nwynwy nyowr nyorrrrr) and since then thanks to the vagaries of fate and the rules of military architecture I've never lived higher than the third floor.

My parents' super fancy house out in the woods of TN, however, overlooks a decently steep drop down to a riverbed in a valley, so if you walk out onto the deck it's as if you're on the 5th or 6th floor of a tall building. God, I can't wait to move there and become a hermit.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I've ever lived above the 10th floor. (Which I did on East 46th Street for one summer.) Although I am theoretically in favour of living up that high (higher in the building = closer to heaven) in practice I don't like it because I invariably end up walking up and down because I am scared of lifts.

I currently live on UK 3rd Floor. HSA makes me take the lift and distracts me from my fear by pretending to be a dog and growling at himself in the mirror. (But when he's not there, I still walk up.)

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Foul temptress!!!! Alex, I never knew you cared.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

E 46th St == I NEVER walked over there. 5th Ave was like the dividing line of a wild frontier! What the hell was over there? No laundromats is all I remember.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://glasgowguide.members.easyspace.com/images/parkhead/springfrdtenm_0202.jpg

I own a flat sorta like this, on the top floor (which is either 3rd or 4th depending how you wanna count it), but I don't live there no more - tis rented out. I live on the 1st floor now. (hope I remember how to do pics right...)

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/vacations/images/photos/High-Holborn-Residence.jpg

i lived on the 11th floor for the academic year last year. nice location!

other than that, i've never lived above the 3rd floor.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just moved into a new flat in a converted building that was originally a convent. The bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom are on the (UK style) second floor but the living room is up another level inside what used to be a bell tower - so my new living room has all-round views across town. This obviously rocks mightily.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you disturbed by the ghosts of nuns in the middle of the night?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I lived up a little bit high - 5th or 7th or something - not very high. Mostly on the ground coz that's where houses are built.

― toraneko (toraneko), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

You guys are bizarre eloi sky-dwellers. The highest-up I've ever lived is in my current place, about 2-3 feet off the ground (houses in south LA are raised because of the whole below sea level thing). Any higher up and all I can hear is the sweet sweet call of gravity.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, my previous apartment was in a basement, which was very nice during the summer. Until I got to thinking, and then worrying, about radon.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

3rd floor in Germany when I was a kid, second floor as an adult. I lived in a six-story dorm for a year in college, but was on the ground floor.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. I've never lived in an apartment before.

I do live in a house that's situated on the near-top of a hill, though. It's a hill with a 20 ft elevation, my house is a tri-level, and all the bedrooms are on the top level, so I suppose I live about 35 feet up. Approximately.

I do live in an area with a wealth of apartment complexes, though. Though none of them reach any higher than three stories tall. They're all these huge, spread out jobbies. The rent there is comparable to the monthly mortgage payment of this house, though, so there'd be no saving money if we/I moved.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Except you don't have to pay for repairs!

(This has always been my argument in favor of apartments, but I grew up in a 250+ yr old Colonial, so my idea of "the cost of repairs" = you could buy a nice new car with the money you save.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, the house we live in is only about 35 years old. We're still talking minor repairs here, and usually the kind of thing I can tackle on my own. As a plus, we live about maybe a mile away from a Home Depot, which is fab.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The 15th floor is my highest, but I've lived on two different 9th floors as well.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

My highest was the fifth floor (UK-style), in an old Georgian building without a lift. There were 110 steps up to my flat; the day after we moved in, I couldn't get out of bed because my legs had stopped working.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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