> For the last 7 years I've been only living on the 7th and 8th floor, I think only twice I had problems with the elevator. Still it's a bother, especially if

> For the last 7 years I've been only living on the 7th and 8th floor, I think only twice I had problems with the elevator. Still it's a bother, especially if you're a senior citizen. Also you still spend much time just waiting for an elevator and riding it, > I'm very fine with that, I don't need huge spaces to live all of by myself (or with my wife + kids). As a matter of fact I have several coffee shops on a 10-minute walk radius, there's where I also spend most of my free time. That's ok, but many people would like something more than a 50 m^2 flat and don't spend most of free time in coffee shops. > I don't have that much spare time, and as such I don't have time for gardening (plus, I don't like it). On top of that, "raw" nature beats "gardened" nature by several orders of magnitude I don't mean some fancy garden, just grass and maybe some trees/bushes. And I don't agree that raw nature beats it by several orders of magnitude, of course someone likes it better, and it's no mountains, but it's still real trees, real flower and real grass. > I want my kids to be able to wander by themselves in wild-ish forests just outside the city (as I used to do as a kid, while I was living in an communist apartment building), I don't want them to enjoy the sort of "manicured" nature that the suburbia promotes. If you want that than living in a large city is really not an answer. Your kids only can do that if you live on the very edge of the city. And suburbia has more places like that because it has more edges (there's many detached patched of sprawl). Or you can live in a very small city.