by Doug » Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:58 pm
I never lived in a high flat so perhaps i shouldn't comment but when i was younger i worked as a service engineer (not lifts) and visited many customers in high rises and i have to say that most of them were generally quite happy. Lifts were an annoyance in some flats where there was no caretaker with youngsters messing about and jamming the doors open and damaging the interiors and that sort of thing. But although folks generally liked their flats you have to bear in mind that most of my customers in the early 70's came from run down tenements so anything was better. But one thing was for sure all would have loved to have been given a house (or flat) with some garden. Some high rises i visited had dreadful exteriors with graffiti scrawled everywhere and dirt and filth in the entrance areas but i think that sort of thing has largely been overcome
Ahm entitled to my opinion as well