“Spiral staircases: They are super interesting and architectural, but hell to move things up and down.”

"We had a washer/dryer on the second floor. The washer broke, so we had to hire a cherry picker to bring the new one in through our second-floor window. The spiral stairway was too narrow. Such a pain in the ass."

"Also, trying to properly clean around all the feet (especially in a smaller bathroom) is almost impossible."

"I have friends who put a barn door on their bathroom for the 'aesthetics.' 🙄 The door opens into the main hallway, and the toilet is positioned in the corner of the room, in such a way that when you're sitting on the toilet, you can SEE right into the hallway through the crack in the door, and be heard by everyone on the other side!! Whenever we have to use the toilet, we've learned to drape a towel over the handle for some privacy — it's truly that bad. Don't put barn doors on bathrooms, folks."

"We eat a lot of fish and use garlic and onion generously in our cooking. The noise I can live with, but the smell? Not to mention that grease builds up on walls and furniture over time. And I like being focused when I handle hot or sharp objects and not tripping over my cat who smelled fresh meat. 

Last time I moved, my number one dealbreaker was no open concept, and the agent just looked at me and said, 'Well, that removes about 80% of listings; are you sure? I mean, who even cooks in this day and age?' Bro, in this economy?"

"Lol, my apartment in college had a smoke alarm directly above the oven, so every time I opened the oven, it would go off."

"Our primary was like this, and I hateddd it. Not only was it impossible to get ready in there if one of us was still sleeping, but our vanity always had to be clean/presentable, or I'd just be looking into a dirty bathroom from my nice, clean bedroom."

"My mother-in-law fell down that step because we didn't properly highlight it with a rug (her words), and we heard about that step every time she visited for 20 years until we sold it."

"We've nearly come full circle with AI. It's so confidently incorrect sometimes that we can't fully trust it, so we have to resort to caveman mode just to get by. We're a few years in now, and it hasn't improved my life in any meaningful way."

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