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Re:Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age by delfinom on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:12PM (#36974656)
> the USA (and Canada) goes to the effort to build two stairways in apartment buildings, which makes them harder to build, and compromises the design in making them subjectively worse to live in.

Did a developer tell you that? Adding multiple stairways in a building is not difficult unless we are talking some sort of converted slum building.

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Re:Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age by Tiktaalik on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:25PM (#36974850)
yes developers increasingly are advocating against these buildings.

I'm sure it's not technically terribly difficult to add a staircase, but it's added time and expense and restricts architects in what they can do.

https://slate.com/business/2021/12/staircases-floor-plan-twi...

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