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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, op, look at the rules in the condo building and see if people are allowed to walk out of the car park area.  Don’t laugh, some buildings only have doors that can accomidate a vehicle meaning that people are discouraged from walking out of the car area.

What this looks like is that while you can keep your stroller in your car as another poster mentioned, you can’t use your stroller in the sense that you can’t bring the baby downstairs, strap them in and roll on out. You’d have to go get the stroller, bring it upstairs, put the baby in it, and then get it and baby downstairs.  You might be able to leave the stroller in a lobby while you go get the baby, either way, it’s way more work both physically and mentally then you are thinking. 
People tend to talk of babies like luggage “bring the baby” “take the baby” that sort of thing and so until you have one, many things seem doable.

Talk to the people in your building, the ones who live there.  Look around to see if there are kids and talk to people you see with kids.

If you can’t or don’t find anybody, that’s a clue you won’t like living there. 
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This is great advice to look around at the people living in the building (no experience with the car/lot/access question).  "Kid friendly" in the community sense is probably the best indicator of whether this is something you can manage comfortably.  My walk up building is certainly not kid friendly in the strictest sense (narrow doors, tiny foyer to leave our stroller, etc) but there are other kids among the 3 other units in the building, and our block is full of families making it work.  There's a community vibe of "could you watch my kid while I run upstairs?" a tolerance for kids making noise as we're coming in, a general acceptance of kids gear clogging up the entryway, etc.  The stairs I can handle, but I'd be miserable if I had to constantly worry about minimizing my kids' physical footprint.  Which is not to say that we don't go to great lengths to make sure our floors are thickly carpeted, we're minimizing early morning noise, etc.  But knowing that we're not the exception in the area is comforting.[/quote]

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