Probably the "Who wouldn't" phrasing.

That said, having lived above a restaurant, I personally will never again live in a building shared with a food-related business. Even the cleanest tend to have a poor record controlling pests; and when they exterminate, all the critters will flee into your apartment.

A grocery store a couple doors down on the same block, though? Ideal. Pharmacy on the ground floor of my building? Absolutely. Shoe store? Jewelry store? Toy store? Hairdresser? Why the hell not?

Many of the most popular neighborhoods in New York are built out like this. The convenience is part of what makes them so popular.

> with little to no downside

The cockroaches are a downside, as are the bottle deposit machines running (and crunching glass) at all hours, but you're mostly right.

That is not typical of grocery stores I know. None has glass crunching machine, only few run whole night and there are no cockroaches around.