People who live in flats

[VannaB]

Why, if you live in a ground floor flat, does it appear to be the case that no matter what room of your flat you choose to walk into, someone from upstairs appears to mirror that and walk into their equivelant room upstairs at the same time? It's like they have some sort of skin magnet and cannot help but follow you around the floorplan of the flat!!!

Is it just me? Does it only happen to people who have others above them, or does the human magnet effect work both ways and people upstairs suffer equally from being followed by their downstairs neighbours? Maybe I just ned to buy a house!!!!

[4getmenot]

I live in a flat and to be honest dont take much notice of others unless they are being really noisy. I think you have to much time on your hands, turn the telly up and relax :-)

[Andyvon]

I lived in a lower flat once - it was hell. I heard every scrape of furniture above me, every object that was dropped on the floor, and every footstep. It was particularly bad when upstairs had guests with children running round when the banging and scraping was like a herd of elephants. My flat plan mirrored that above and, depending where I happened to be, I could even hear them going to the loo. I always knew what TV channel upstairs was watching and the routine of their day. Worst of all was when I was trying to get to sleep at night - and the bedroom ceiling would start rhythmically creaking to the accompaniment of moans and groans!
Never again! I was in a state of continual stress and I could never relax. If you move to another room they follow you there - then back again - and back again! People shouldn't live like that in this day and age. Don't live below anyone. Buy that house!!!

[VannaB]

Thank GOD! Another Ground Floor Flat dweller who is mentally scarred by their experience.

Clumsy people buy 1st floor flats-how else can they explain the constant dropping of items? Heavy items...items that roll.....
Also, people in 1st Floor Flats do not own slippers.
They also think tha breaking wind whilst sitting on their sofa will not effectively be like farting on the head of their downstairs neighbours.
I almost had a stroke one night when woken from a dead sleep by what I thought was either a cannon or the flare of the lifeboat going off. T'was neither-just upstairs post curry!

[161warrior]

As an ex-copper, I can at least assure you that nothing ever happens on the ground floor. My experience was that the further up you lived the more likely you were to need police and the lift never worked! Or did it just seem that way?