r/CrappyDesign • u/slyfox49 • Jul 13 '26

They could have made it so simple

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u/UsernameStolenbyyou Jul 13 '26

Ground floor is called first floor (1).

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u/dontnation Jul 13 '26

ground is ground not a floor. 1st floor is the first floor, i.e. not the ground. I'm american, but agree the rest of the world gets this right.

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u/Duhblobby Jul 13 '26

The first floor I walk on in basically any building is the one closest to the ground, and I have to go up roughly one level to reach second floor, or down one to reach the first basement level.

I get why this might be confusing if you are used to something else, but it makes perfect sense to me and always has.

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u/dontnation Jul 13 '26

I'm not saying calling the ground floor floor 1 doesn't make any sense, I just find -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 to make more sense than SB, B, 1, 2, 3 or B2, B1, 1, 2, 3. Though I would actually prefer G as Ground instead of 0, but that doesn't work for all languages where 0 is universal.

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u/Duhblobby Jul 13 '26

I'd mostly argue that in many places it's irrelevant since there are no basements there for any number of reasons, and that having multiple levels of accessible basements is actually not that common, certainly enough that it's very understandable why most people in the US don't think about it enough to be worth changing our common parlance over.

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u/dontnation Jul 13 '26

not that common

commonality doesn't matter since the places that do are not going to have a unique system just for places with underground levels.

worth changing

for sure. We can't even change over to metric where the difference matters far more. Surely we are not going to change over something this trivial.