Hi there! Recently I've shocked my Hungarian friend. I told her that in Russia we count floors from the first one, without any zero floor, ground floor or so. We enter the building and immediately we are on the first floor. In the elevator you will also find no 0 key, you will see a column or a grid of buttons starting from 1 which basically means the floor where you can exit the building, the base, the first floor. In Hungary they have such a thing called "földszint", ground level, if we translate word by word. And only after that ground level they start to count floors from the first one. I even have recorded a video today to show her that I'm not joking, I've demonstrated buttons in the elevator and the process when I come from a street, enter the building and up to my apartment.
Also, I know that in China they used to skip some floor numbers because of unlucky numbers or something associated with death and suffer. I'm not sure about that but I heard it somewhere a few years ago.
What is the situation in your country? How do you count floors?
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In the United States, you walk into most buildings on the first floor. The thirteenth floor is skipped for whatever reason. I'm not in an area that has basements, so I'm not sure what happens then.
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Yes, yes, great people here, all starting from 0! And yeah russians are weird :D of course just joking but ehm. First floor? Why? You didn't even climb any stairs when entering a building.
Όταν θα κοιτάς την θάλασσα Χωρίς να το θέλεις, θα βλέπεις εμένα Και τα μάτια σου θα ‘ναι θλιμμένα Όταν θα ξυπνάς στον ύπνο σου Χωρίς να το θέλεις, θα σκέφτεσαι εμένα Και θα νιώθεις μεγάλο κενό
So in short, here in most places the ground floor is considered number 0. But some buildings don't have a ground floor they directly start from floor 1, most likely because there's another building built below that building.
I've lived in 3 countrys. two of which considering the ground floor as number 0, that being aruba and colombia, and the other, the US, considering it floor 1. I've always found that strange
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sometimes it starts with main, or L for lobby, or sometimes ground but we sometimes in that case also have a first flore. At my old school we had a ground flore under the main level with classrooms, room numbers started with G on that flore.
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I was in elevators in Ukraine and Czech Republic, and they all began from the first floor. And if there were some minus floors, there was no zero floor between them. But if we talk about the buildings in general, then it depends on the building. I have seen different Architectural solutions and some buildings really often have floor that can be called ground floor, and people do call it like that.
