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[quote=Anonymous]We have been living in apartment on the 5th floor of a building in DC for 12 years and are about to the suburbs. Now that we have two little kids apartment living stinks. Before kids it was great but it started sucking with the first kid and is a nightmare with two and COVID.

It’s an ordeal to get out of the building with kids. You have to have everything - diapers, snacks, hand sanitizer, masks, wipes, water for everyone, etc. etc. There is no just popping outside or stepping outside to test the weather. You commit to what you wear and then have to bring layers and backups in case it’s too hot or too cold or there’s a blowout. God forbid
You forget something and have to slog back inside. Getting in and out of the building with kids is an ordeal. Most people don’t mask anymore and our kids are not vaccinated so there are millions of little land mines to navigate - the old neighbor who grabs my baby’s hands when we see her, the neighbor kid who wants to ride in the elevator and coughs on the way down without a mask cause he’s 2, the millions of random delivery people in and out of the building.

Don’t forget that Little kids touch everything - elevator doors, elevator walls and railings, lobby door, etc. which during COVID is a damn nightmare. The laundry room is shared and dealing with family laundry during COVID has horrid. Literally pre vaccine you had to worry you were risking your life to get the kids out of the apartment or do a load of laundry. We went through gallons of Purell. The shared roof deck was great before kids, but instead they run around and touch EVERYTHING that probably dozens or more of other residents touch that are never sanitized. The germ factor is insane and with delta flying around I am done.

What else can I say? So many neighbors smoke pot, even in our upscale building. The second hand in the hallways is annoying and it stinks. Constant noise from neighbors who love to drop things or vacuum or have sex when my kids are napping. Or the random ambulances or police cars or motorcades that constantly zoom by. Walkability was amazing. I loved it. But we aren’t young anymore and we aren’t going to restaurants, bars, movies, metro or anything indoors. We certainly aren’t taking the bus anywhere. So the benefit of walkability has largely evaporated safe from the occasional Starbucks that I order on my phone and grab on a walk.

You’ve got some fantasy ideas about the benefits of high rise living. It’s not fun with little kids, it stinks. We are moving the the suburbs soon and I literally cannot wait to be in a house and to not have to worry my kids are going to catch the rona just to go outside and play anymore. [/quote]

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