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Then I'll be the first person to tell you that I'd love to live on the 90th floor of a building... I don't have a family yet and am going to live in an apartme

• bombcar 3y ago
  I've little experience with "[being sent] to work in tall buildings" besides staying in hotels in the non-penthouse suites and it seems to me that usually the view you get is of a street and a building across said street. Obviously tall buildings make sense in places like New York where there are more people who want to live there than available dwelling units.
  • ladberg 3y ago
    > a street and a building across said street I guess different cities have different distributions of building heights, but living in NYC I feel like this is accurate living on any floor <10 and inaccurate on any floor >=10 (roughly). Even in the densest neighborhoods the fraction of tall skyscrapers is pretty low so if you're 10 stories up you'll usually be able to see pretty far even though you're still surrounded by much taller buildings.
    • bombcar 3y ago
      NYC has the advantage of "additional" coastline with the water around the main island and the "internal island" of Central Park. I feel that other cities might tend much more to the 'walls of nearly identical height buildings'.