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Yeah, those would be like the back stairs, in a nicer building. Good point.
Thanks, but I don't really know what you mean by backstairs, as most apartments I know just open to the one staircase. It's not way thin, but I'm just saying most of the ones in my city were wider and thicker. The ones which exist, that is. There's only some of them left in the center and other apartment buildings are basic concrete shits.
My point is rather that it needn't be a bank or anything like that to be somewhat fancy, that used to be in style... some time. Early 20th century, maybe?
OOh I can answer that one since it’s a conversation floating around Lemmy ……
There are different standards for apartment buildings, where US building code requires two means of egress and it can’t be a window if over a certain height (3 floors?). American apartment buildings will have two staircases (and the argument is you could have fit another apartment in there) whereas some other places might require only one (where the argument is modern technology like smoke alarms make the second exit less necessary)