My wife and I live on the first or ground level in an apartment complex in Santa Rosa. I’ve been told that level one is undesirable, because people can look in your windows and so on. We chose level one because climbing stairs is no longer one of our hobbies.
We know several couples, friends, who enjoy Level Three in San Francisco. That's a higher level, of course— I am writing about a specific village above the city in downtown SF, near the Ferry Building, where we will soon be dog-sitting for friends of the family who are going to Europe for a month.
Level Three has existed for many years. It is (I’m guessing) about ten acres of high rises that have a large outdoor platform at the third-storey level that extends over the congested city streets below with pedestrian bridges. If you look up, you can see the bridges. The weather is good up there: breezes off the water, sunlight, flowers, grass, deck chairs. Level Three people walk their dogs around the elevated space, crossing bridges, strolling trom park to park, passing a movie theater, restaurants, whatever. There are no homeless people at that height, but rats come out at night from the shrubbery and trees.
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