Are Stairs Really A Problem?

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Anonymous wrote:It's more of a problem for groceries, etc...

If you need to save money and have a place that is livable now, I would go ahead and buy it. I smucked groceries up the stairs for ten years before we could afford a non-stair house, and not a townhome.

OP here. We get groceries delivered.

Make sure you tip them REALLY well if they're having to carry your groceries up the stairs.

OP here. We will. We always tip well above the 15%.

[Anonymous]

Is this you again or just someone with a very similar scenario? The answers are the same either way: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/927009.page

[Anonymous]

We live in a townhouse where garage is bottom floor and kitchen, living area is second floor. Two kids, born there and oldest is 7 now. We manage fine. One parent brings the groceries from the car, the other puts them away. Sometimes annoying when we forget something and need to go back upstairs but overall not even close to a deal breaker.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this you again or just someone with a very similar scenario? The answers are the same either way: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/927009.page

Not Op from this thread but I’m Op from the other thread. We ended up buying a house that came on the market in the area we wanted a couple days after I posted this. It has stairs ( 3 levels) but it hasn’t been that big of a deal.

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Hard pass

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Wow people on here are lazy.

We lived in a garden style condo for 3 yrs from when our son was born until he was 2. We had our own entrance and then went up a flight of stirs to our condo. Condo was also at the end of a long walkway. Never had in issue getting groceries and a kid/baby inside. We did do things like keep our BOB stroller in the trunk of the car. But I certainly carried the bucket seat up and down the stairs all the time.

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30 steps is a huge set of stairs. 10 ish would be ok but not 30

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hard no. Baby and groceries. Baby and car seat bucket. Baby and sibling in a few years. Stroller after someone in the building reports theirs was stolen.

Also toddlers are PAINFULLY slow on stairs. So it will take 5 min (not joking) for your kid to get up or down the stairs and you can't just run and put stuff down while wait. So imagine coming home from work with your work bag, dinner, your jacket, kid jacket, and then step, wait. Wait. Wait, step, tell you something, step, look at the wall, step, wait. Wait. Wait. Step.

If it was your only option, fine. Not saying you have to spend 25k more, but 5-8 stairs maybe. 30?? Heck no. I want to kill myself watching my 2.5 year old on 13 stairs.

OP here. All storage units are locked. We wouldn’t keep it in the foyer because it’s so small. I didn’t realize little kids are that slow on stairs.

Not all little kids are that slow on stairs. Some of them (mine) will zip up very quickly. Mine were NOT slow on stairs ever. But it's a little dangerous and cumbersome and I just hate carrying things up and down stairs.

[Anonymous]

Honestly? Move to the suburbs now.

[Anonymous]

“Hold the rail!” Just say that a million times a day and now my kids always do and it saves them every time even as older kids who lunge down the stairs.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow people on here are lazy.

We lived in a garden style condo for 3 yrs from when our son was born until he was 2. We had our own entrance and then went up a flight of stirs to our condo. Condo was also at the end of a long walkway. Never had in issue getting groceries and a kid/baby inside. We did do things like keep our BOB stroller in the trunk of the car. But I certainly carried the bucket seat up and down the stairs all the time.

Right, but did you do that with a toddler and a baby?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in a townhouse where garage is bottom floor and kitchen, living area is second floor. Two kids, born there and oldest is 7 now. We manage fine. One parent brings the groceries from the car, the other puts them away. Sometimes annoying when we forget something and need to go back upstairs but overall not even close to a deal breaker.

This is a totally different scenario than OP. Imagine grocery shopping with your kids (groceries in basket below stroller) and lugging that up two flights of stairs. While you’re doing that, what do you do with your child? If you have a TH you can easily leave groceries in the garage while you secure your kid. OP will have to bring everything up at one time. She may be a hardcore baby carrier which might be fine until she has a second kid. Also, they won’t always have two parents every time they go out of the house.

I lived in a building with two elevators and only one went to the ground floor. When that elevator was out, it was very difficult to manage the long flight up with groceries and kids. It was also impossible for the nanny to manage and caused issues sometimes. If you do go with the cheaper condo, spend some of that money on fancy strollers like the yolo fold up one and a few baby carriers you like.

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I am a nanny and when I have worked with families in walk-ups, I babywear. I have carriers that work up to 40 pounds because with some kids it is easier and faster to just put the big kid on my back and the baby on my front and then carry everything else in IKEA bags on my shoulders. It’s exhausting but good exercise.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow people on here are lazy.

We lived in a garden style condo for 3 yrs from when our son was born until he was 2. We had our own entrance and then went up a flight of stirs to our condo. Condo was also at the end of a long walkway. Never had in issue getting groceries and a kid/baby inside. We did do things like keep our BOB stroller in the trunk of the car. But I certainly carried the bucket seat up and down the stairs all the time.

Just because people would make a different choice doesn’t mean they’re lazy. Both of our moms have mobility issues so that many stairs would be a hard no. We would also be concerned about resale. While some people don’t care about a lot of stairs, many people do. It’s just not a feature that we would choose if we had another option and could afford it.