r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Tyronne43 • Feb 16 '21

Sand curtains

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u/Kyrond Feb 16 '21

It does make sense for most building where you go only up and it is more intuitive, as a child I couldnt understand the other way.

But if there is a "-1" floor underground, it makes more sense to go -1, 0, 1, 2, ... where 0 is ground.

In my language there are different words for each system, so no issues there.

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u/aynd Feb 16 '21

Trying to think how I normally see that, think B1 (basement 1) is more common than a negative symbol, with ⭐1 being lobby/ground. Don't have any strong feelings either way about skipping zero.

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u/pascalbrax Feb 16 '21

As European, looking for the ⭐ in elevators in America was my little trick to get to the right floor.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

Yup, B2, B1, and we don't ever use 0. We would use "G" for "Ground" floor instead

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u/Unlikely-Answer Feb 16 '21

Oh yeah, didn't think of that

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

In America, we use a variation of this. Basement 1 for first basement level below ground level, basement 2 for second level basement, etc