I live on the third floor. No noise problems since I don't face the street, but we get NO sun. In fact it's nearly impossible to ever be able to tell what it's like outside by looking out the windows.
I currently live on the fifth floor and have lived on the third floor. Right now we may get an opportunity to live on the first floor of a building. All seemed good and then I randomly heard two people talking about the bad side of first floor apartments. They mentioned things I personally never thought about. Now I am wondering how much truth they hold. Have you ever heard of bad first floor things that are specific to that floor? Or can you think of any?
we lived on the 6th floor and weren't dying to live below people after being spoiled for so long so we live on the 3rd/4th floor with no one above us.
my bro and sil just moved into the ground level of a brownstone here in Brooklyn and they have bars on all the windows and gates on the doors which made my SIL happy. Their BR is in the back so I think its quiet enough. The LR faces the street and it can get loud with buses and people walking by but since its the LR you just deal. I am sure they are enjoying the 'not having to walk up flights of stairs'. They step down 2 steps into their place. It would be awesome with a baby to live where they are but we deal with our situation. We keep the strollers downstairs in the lobby and if I go shopping sometimes I have to carry baby up 1st and then the bags but I survive!
I don't know if they have any problems with the people above them. They currently have a problem with someones dog using their front area as a bathroom so that is all we hear about TGIF!
hmmm.. they haven't said anything and not about to ask SIL since that might freak her out! if my brother calls I will ask him if he has worried about them at all.
I no longer live in a big city, but I think the reasons I didn't like living on the first floor:
1. Safety - It's harder to break into a third- or fourth-story window than it is to break into a first-floor window. This is the main reason for me. 2. Bugs - I lived in a corporate apartment on the first floor in a pretty good building when I first moved to New York and it was summer and lots of ants and mosquitoes. In subsequent summers and higher apartments, I had fewer bugs and definitely fewer mosquitoes. Unfortunately, this probably doesn't apply to rats. 3. Noise - Too much noise on the first floor.
On the flip side, if your building is a walkup, the first floor is probably not too bad a thing. :)
I hate mosquitoes!! But my big concern is rats. So you think first floor apartments get them just as much as higher floors? Or do first floor apartments get them more?
I don't think you're going to have a significant different between potential for rats between the floors. It's probably mostly the same, but the first floor is probably a *slightly* higher likelihood. I would just make sure that the building has good vermin control.
I was going to post pretty much what anemone720 did.
Also, when I lived in a first floor apartment, the amount of dirt that would collect in my window sill from the street was thick, black and constant. I was always amazed at the amount of soot-like dirt that would collect there.
I actually wanted to be on the ground floor, because it's such a pain in the ass getting a stroller in and out. Having someone above you can be a noise issue, but I guess it's always an issue unles you live at the top!
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my bro and sil just moved into the ground level of a brownstone here in Brooklyn and they have bars on all the windows and gates on the doors which made my SIL happy. Their BR is in the back so I think its quiet enough. The LR faces the street and it can get loud with buses and people walking by but since its the LR you just deal. I am sure they are enjoying the 'not having to walk up flights of stairs'. They step down 2 steps into their place. It would be awesome with a baby to live where they are but we deal with our situation. We keep the strollers downstairs in the lobby and if I go shopping sometimes I have to carry baby up 1st and then the bags but I survive!
I don't know if they have any problems with the people above them. They currently have a problem with someones dog using their front area as a bathroom so that is all we hear about
TGIF!
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1. Safety - It's harder to break into a third- or fourth-story window than it is to break into a first-floor window. This is the main reason for me.
2. Bugs - I lived in a corporate apartment on the first floor in a pretty good building when I first moved to New York and it was summer and lots of ants and mosquitoes. In subsequent summers and higher apartments, I had fewer bugs and definitely fewer mosquitoes. Unfortunately, this probably doesn't apply to rats.
3. Noise - Too much noise on the first floor.
On the flip side, if your building is a walkup, the first floor is probably not too bad a thing. :)
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Also, when I lived in a first floor apartment, the amount of dirt that would collect in my window sill from the street was thick, black and constant. I was always amazed at the amount of soot-like dirt that would collect there.
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