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Quick rundown of the advantages (I usually live in high-rises): High rises usually have spectacular shared amenities: grand pools, exercise rooms, party rooms,
by BrentOzar 6y ago
Quick rundown of the advantages (I usually live in high-rises):
High rises usually have spectacular shared amenities: grand pools, exercise rooms, party rooms, theaters, etc. One of mine had outdoor grilling areas that you didn't even have to clean up: the apartment had cleaning staff who would scour the grills every day.
High rises usually have 24/7 door staff to sign for & lock up packages, get taxis, handle dry cleaning, store grocery deliveries in a fridge, and let you into your unit if you get locked out. The sheer number of units makes this cost-effective for them because the costs are shared across all tenants.
High rises usually have maintenance staff during business hours and on call after hours to fix issues. Sometimes you can also hire them for handyman duties, too - I've had them install TVs, hang green screens, or paint a wall.
High rises are often the only cost-effective way to live in the core of a really vibrant city like Chicago: we couldn't have afforded a town home, let alone a single family home.
- klodolph 6y agoHigh rises are the closest thing we have to arcologies. Not saying that they’re close to arcologies, just that they’re the closest.
- PaulHoule 6y agoNah. The elevator stack in high rise buildings is predicated on almost all the trips terminating at the entrance. That is is why the NYT building has the cafeteria on the 2nd floor. Thus a highrise is mostly a place where you live and leave or work and leave. If it had the kind of N*(N-1) scaling of interactions a city had there would be no room for apartments and offices between the shafts.
- xkeysc0re 6y agoI know this is the most pedantic of all comments but unless something has changed in the last few weeks, the cafeteria is on the 14th of the building. I believe 2 is bottom floor of the newsroom, which is an open mezzanine of 3 floors. Having said that, the elevators at the NYT are a nightmare with exceptionally long wait times and very little throughput.
- tehwalrus 6y agoIn the UK, high rises are cheap social housing, and rarely have any of these features. (it's possible a few nice ones were built here at there, but those are the exception - people here value houses and gardens, and nobody builds high rises with large floorspace.) C.f. the fallout from the Grenfell Tower fire. Most of our tower blocks are like that, and all the flats are currently impossible to sell because they all have the wrong, dangerously flammable cladding on.
- throw0101a 6y agoThis may be (slowly?) changing: * https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/living-the-high-life-in-london-123849 https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/living-the-high-life-...
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- justinclift 6y agoAnd not having to mow the lawn! :)