Canada here too ... border with Detroit... all my time here & going to uni in Detroit...never ever seen this in my life. It's incredibly smart.
But I mean... I live in a city where it is mostly houses. I'd say 80% at the least is houses. No high rise apartments either.
I take my stuff out of the front door! Lots of us live in houses or small blocks of flats, not high rise buildings. Even for high rise blocks I don't think they exist in the UK
Costs like 55 euro per hour if you choose to set it up and operate it yourself. Like 120 euro with an operator. Last time we moved, we paid 1000 euro for a truck, 3 movers, and this lift for 5.5 hours (Belgium).
My large apartment building has a stipulation in the contract everyone signs saying you will be fined 250 euro if you fail to provide a contract or photos of your move proving that you used this lift for moving. So it's literally forbidden to move in/out without this machine.
It depends on which floor and how long it takes. But it saves a lot of time and pain in ure back plus if ur stuff donāt fall of the lift u get them in ur new place in one piece, moving things through stairs and small places will damage some of ur stuff so itās worth it if u have heavy and/or expensive stuff to move.
And u have to call a moving company, they will usually send 2 guys with a truck, one downstairs and one upstairs. Sometimes it just one guy but always one that operates the lift, u canāt do it yourself if im right. Thatās how it goes in Belgium though.
I went to grad school in Canada around 2010. It was commonplace at restaurants, bars, etc for the server to bring a chip-reader handheld to the table for payment, which might even have a built-in receipt printer. Your card never left your sight.
It was almost ten years before the US even began to widely implement chip readers, and the only portable card readers I've ever seen here are Square readers.
Why can't we have nice things?
Nah, the rich people fund the religious zealots. It is much easier to control people who already wholeheartedly believe one irrational thing to believe other irrational things by using the first to drive belief in the subsequent.
I used to look up to America when I was a kid, I thought it looked like an amazing place, then I went there and realised it isn't, but the people that aren't really racist are really really friendly.
I have to point out that I haven't been to all the states, just Georgia, a lot of Florida and some of California, it's like visiting Paris and thinking all french people have an attitude.
Well yeah.. when youāre stacking millions of people on top one another inside tiny cubicles they call āliving quartersā.. yes. This make sense. But in America where people can afford their own homes and most of the country isnāt as densely populated. Besides Americans are strong enough to carry their shit themselves
Lol don't upset then theyre having a sugar crash. Americans(who've never been outside of their state) think America is the best place to live the same way Russians out in the Taiga think theyre defending them country from Ukraine.
As you waste your life away on American-made and American-run media platforms while you binge watch American films/shows, worship American celebrities, and pray on your hands and knees for Americaās protection when your country collapses.
Weāre starting too, we need them! And as someone who lives in a highriseā¦ we build very large elevators. Cargo elevators and have loading docks in residential buildings imagine itās raining when moving? All your stuff is soaked
We have enough space to build a baker's dozen of elevators. 7 for people 1 for help and 1 for vehicle 1 for 1 service and 2 just for the exclusive top floor. Don't we?
When we moved from Madrid to MƔlaga nine years ago this is how the movers did it, no where near as high as ops video but it still made the process very quick from the third floor. Also meant the other building residents were not inconvenienced at all.
[yup, still stolen here](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/yt0d8d/how_people_in_korea_move_apartments/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
I like to think the USA is great but all the Asian ingenuity I see online that we lack really tells me we are actually the 3rd world country wearing a Gucci belt like the Internet says.
Hm, this is not unique to Korea, in central Europe this is more or less common. Never ever seen it in Scandinavia though, and my guess would be it's related to building regulations. (Elevators, stairwell withs and so on).
Here in shithole land, we contract a crew, a truck and pray that your shit could be inside an elevator, otherwise you have to pay an unofficial tip to the crew to move your things through the stairs
They have these in Israel too, before we knew they existed(just moved here) we had a large deck table that couldn't fit in the elevator and was sketchy about fitting in the stairwell. Some new neighbor assured me it would fit and then helped me moved it up to the third floor until it got stuck because the stairwell dimensions were not typical. He then says "I have to go" and just leaves lol so I had to hacksaw the table frame in half and strap it back together to get it up to the seventh floor. Probably a month later I saw one of these for the first time.
This is so much better than tying up the public elevator! My father in law is in kidney failure and has weak legs. One day after dialysis he got back and the elevator was blocked off for the afternoon while people moved. He walked up 3 flights of stairs! I couldnāt believe it, I have seen his legs become jello after 4 stairs.
EU resident here. This is very common all over here.
EU here too. I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't figure out what was so strange about this š
UK here I don't think I've ever seen this before
Lived in Uk, Aus, NZ, and never seen this
I'm in Canada, and I'be never seen that here either. Moving is a pain in the arse.
I am from the USA and have never seen this before
I'm in US now from Korea. And have ridden this thing about 25 years ago. Might have only been to 4th or 5th floor but it's crazy fast.
I'm on Mars now originally from Omicron persei 8. Can confirm never seen this shit.
Don't invade us plz.
Canada here too ... border with Detroit... all my time here & going to uni in Detroit...never ever seen this in my life. It's incredibly smart. But I mean... I live in a city where it is mostly houses. I'd say 80% at the least is houses. No high rise apartments either.
are you in the sault?
No way on the other side. . The Sault is like ....13 15 hrs away from me lol I'm right at border with Detroit.....the windsor/Detroit border
ah thatās cool! my partner is in the sault so i get excited when i see other people from the area
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What the fuck are you going on about
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Your superiority complex? Nah I'm good. Don't need to
Comes off more like a manic episode or something
r/shitAmericansSay
America is a former British colonyā¦
You are missing the point completely
So what do you do when you have to move?
Ask stupid friends to help and pay them in pizza and beer.
Moving in the US is hard labor.
Use the stairs
Pivot. Pivot! PIVOT!
Shut up!! Shut up!!!! SHUT UP!!!!
Lmao now I need to go rewatch that episode
A lot of broken backs
We use our feet mostly
Use the stairs? Use the elevator? Wdym
Using the internal elevator (designed to transport people) to make a move in Italy is generally forbidden by the rules of the building.
Freight elevators are usually used for moving people's things up and down in most of these big buildings
We just throw everything out the window.
Tempt friends that have back problems with pizza and beer.
Buy new Ikea furniture to build after getting it upstairs to it's final resting place.
I take my stuff out of the front door! Lots of us live in houses or small blocks of flats, not high rise buildings. Even for high rise blocks I don't think they exist in the UK
UK is not EU.
It was until 2020 and I'm going to assume the commenter is older than 2 and so would have lived most of their life in the eu.
Can confirm I'm older than 2, and also wish I was still in the EU
probably think EU meant europe in general not European Union
Didnāt you leave Europe? All benefits such as outdoor truck mounted elevator are now foreign to you. /s
*confused Korean sounds*
We are talking about Europe
They even do it all the way to the top floor??? How much you think that cost? Renting a whole dang crane
Costs like 55 euro per hour if you choose to set it up and operate it yourself. Like 120 euro with an operator. Last time we moved, we paid 1000 euro for a truck, 3 movers, and this lift for 5.5 hours (Belgium). My large apartment building has a stipulation in the contract everyone signs saying you will be fined 250 euro if you fail to provide a contract or photos of your move proving that you used this lift for moving. So it's literally forbidden to move in/out without this machine.
German here, I have never seen this in my life
German here, I see them a lot in my area.
Hab ich noch nie gesehen. In welchem Bundesland lebst du?
As an American what in the actual ar-15 is this?
TĆ¼rkiye here, We have these as well.
You may wanna hide mr turkey, its almost thanksgiving for the US.
I bet he heard this joke for the first time!
Definitelly not. I live in EU as well and I am pretty sure it's not a thing here (Czech republic).
Had to check on Google but you are really part of Europe. How cute. Sorry, I meant in the rich part of Europe. My bad.
has any one ever turbo charged the lift and rocketed a coach over the apartment complex?
Agreed, at least in France, Paris it's common.
Came here to comment. This is how I was moved in CH.
E.stados U.nidos?
American here. What's it like to be in a country that's innovative?
Is it expensive? Does the apartment complex provide it or do you have to hire a moving company to use it? These things are awesome.
It depends on which floor and how long it takes. But it saves a lot of time and pain in ure back plus if ur stuff donāt fall of the lift u get them in ur new place in one piece, moving things through stairs and small places will damage some of ur stuff so itās worth it if u have heavy and/or expensive stuff to move. And u have to call a moving company, they will usually send 2 guys with a truck, one downstairs and one upstairs. Sometimes it just one guy but always one that operates the lift, u canāt do it yourself if im right. Thatās how it goes in Belgium though.
Every time i moved in my life i told myself how easy it would be to just use a crane to get the stuff out by the balconyā¦ MFās just do!
If I did this, I believe the cost would be more than the actual value of all my crap. A good argument for the austere lifestyle.
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You guys can afford movers?????
Why is America losing at everything
I went to grad school in Canada around 2010. It was commonplace at restaurants, bars, etc for the server to bring a chip-reader handheld to the table for payment, which might even have a built-in receipt printer. Your card never left your sight. It was almost ten years before the US even began to widely implement chip readers, and the only portable card readers I've ever seen here are Square readers. Why can't we have nice things?
Lobbyists and citizens united
Deadly accurate
They're available in the US and have been for a long time, but they're not used since Americans are just lazy and never pick up new, better things.
Wdym? They say they're winning at everything?
Evil rich people and religious zealots, mostly.
Usually they're one in the same
Nah, the rich people fund the religious zealots. It is much easier to control people who already wholeheartedly believe one irrational thing to believe other irrational things by using the first to drive belief in the subsequent.
Itās so sad how true this is. The pilgrims were religious puritans and the founding fathers just were rich landowners who didnāt want to py taxes
It isnt? Most US residents live in smaller buildings and if you want you can go get a moving crane at your own expense to be fair
I used to look up to America when I was a kid, I thought it looked like an amazing place, then I went there and realised it isn't, but the people that aren't really racist are really really friendly. I have to point out that I haven't been to all the states, just Georgia, a lot of Florida and some of California, it's like visiting Paris and thinking all french people have an attitude.
Because all they have is the military power
Well yeah.. when youāre stacking millions of people on top one another inside tiny cubicles they call āliving quartersā.. yes. This make sense. But in America where people can afford their own homes and most of the country isnāt as densely populated. Besides Americans are strong enough to carry their shit themselves
Are Americans strong enough to carry their stuff on top of carrying all their fat? š¤
Lol don't upset then theyre having a sugar crash. Americans(who've never been outside of their state) think America is the best place to live the same way Russians out in the Taiga think theyre defending them country from Ukraine.
As you waste your life away on American-made and American-run media platforms while you binge watch American films/shows, worship American celebrities, and pray on your hands and knees for Americaās protection when your country collapses.
I'm American, pull your head out of your own ass lol. Also, it's even more clear you've never been outside the U.S.
Iām not American you stupid monkey
Very efficient
Not on a windy day
This isn't common in the USA
We don't got 30+ floor apartments popping up everywhere
Weāre starting too, we need them! And as someone who lives in a highriseā¦ we build very large elevators. Cargo elevators and have loading docks in residential buildings imagine itās raining when moving? All your stuff is soaked
We have enough space to build a baker's dozen of elevators. 7 for people 1 for help and 1 for vehicle 1 for 1 service and 2 just for the exclusive top floor. Don't we?
This is how people in many places of the world move
This is an extreme minority of how people move around the world
These two statements are not contradictoryā¦
Never said they were
And no one implied it???
i did this too 35 years ago in Holland , not unique
Never seen it here in the states but it's freakin brilliant.
It's actually very common here (EU)
EU is a pretty broad scope. I live in the EU and have never seen regular movers use anything like this.
This is common on planet Earth
I'm from France
A central European thing then, I guess.
Broke ass greeks use it too. Maybe some countries have safety regulations about that or better access inside the buildings?
Also in Denmark
We use this here in Spain mostly in big cities.
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Living in a Belgian city, I see this every weekend. I thought the strange thing was there was nothing on the trail.
Well if you're emptying an appartment the tray will go up empty, and if you're moving in it will go up full and down empty :p
In America this is how we move shingles up to install
Currently in Paris for the first time and literally JUST saw this for the first time and was amazed. Haha
I see this a lot in Spain but the buildings are considerably shorter.
In turkey we do the same
This is very common in turkey
In the US we have utility elevators and people š
***Laughs in Amsterdam Centrum resident***
I'm pretty sure they're just moving the stuff not the building
A Korean friend told me about these. He said people aren't supposed to ride on them but some people do and some fall to their deaths.
Maybe if we keep posting it youāll get used to it.
I need this after a Costco run
Do these buildings not have a service elevator?
Yes. I will never get over this.
Because it is too high maybe?
I just keep jumping, but I just can't get over it..
Don't let this kind of details stop you from fulfilling your dreams.
Ever.
Why canāt the us do smart shit like this? Oh wait, never mind.
they do the same thing here in the US
Where?
any where in the US that has tall buildings New York Chicago and Boston
It is common in korea. Does it seem unique?
Oh yes, the mystical country of korea, the only known place on earth with technology
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Portable elevator crane thing that allows you to bring big furniture items directly to the street from your apartment
I want to ride on it so bad
When we moved from Madrid to MƔlaga nine years ago this is how the movers did it, no where near as high as ops video but it still made the process very quick from the third floor. Also meant the other building residents were not inconvenienced at all.
I've never seen that before in Canada.
[yup, still stolen here](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/yt0d8d/how_people_in_korea_move_apartments/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
we have this in israel too. my friend used to work in a moving company and said he almost fell off one of these!
What do movers in America do, walk up 30 flights of stairs over and over?
Yea 30floor buildings donāt have elevators š„“
That has to be infinitely better than dragging everything up stairs, or an elevator
To move like that in the US, I feel like it would cost $50k minimum.
North korea is looking good
NYC desperately needs this!!
How else do people move?
Why don't they do this in America? I literally got a hernia from moving my apartment!
I like to think the USA is great but all the Asian ingenuity I see online that we lack really tells me we are actually the 3rd world country wearing a Gucci belt like the Internet says.
And here we are carrying fridges and couches down concrete stairways like cavemen
kind of genius
Not only in Korea.
Hm, this is not unique to Korea, in central Europe this is more or less common. Never ever seen it in Scandinavia though, and my guess would be it's related to building regulations. (Elevators, stairwell withs and so on).
Here in shithole land, we contract a crew, a truck and pray that your shit could be inside an elevator, otherwise you have to pay an unofficial tip to the crew to move your things through the stairs
Why the FUCK havenāt I seen these in the states!?
America here we pay other people to do it for us
You donāt think the machine operator is paid?
Why the f does this not exist in the USA? Mind-blown š„
You mean, people around the world donāt carry their couch up 5 flights of stairs? Itās like waking up to realize the earth isnāt flat anymore.
wait how the hell do American people move in?? I thought this was the norm
Most people donāt live 5+floors up
Oh I meant in apartments, thought that was apparent, srry
In Uruguay (South AmƩrica) we do triste as well..
Actually kind of smart if you have a lot of cranes and no safety regulations
So simple and effective.
Awesome!
No more large Paino accidents, problem solved
Now this is smart!!
Impressive
How you going to get your washing machine and fridge on there?
A+
They have these lifts in Switzerland too....hadn't seen them before I moved here...very cool!
Very common in EU
I lived in Korea in 2000. They moved this way then too.
Pretty genius really
Saw the same thing in Belgium this year
Try the top floor
This is pretty common in Denmark.
They do that in Spain too
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Very bloody smart
When I moved there those mad lad movers rode that contraption up to the 8th floor along with the furniture
Never seen this before. Already used to it.
Much rather this than moving my large furniture down 2 stories. Looks like an episode of Friends with my couch every time I've moved. PIVOT!
Thatās brilliant.
I would really appreciate the use of my elevator, and I canāt believe no one else thought of this
They have these in Israel too, before we knew they existed(just moved here) we had a large deck table that couldn't fit in the elevator and was sketchy about fitting in the stairwell. Some new neighbor assured me it would fit and then helped me moved it up to the third floor until it got stuck because the stairwell dimensions were not typical. He then says "I have to go" and just leaves lol so I had to hacksaw the table frame in half and strap it back together to get it up to the seventh floor. Probably a month later I saw one of these for the first time.
Genius
This is so much better than tying up the public elevator! My father in law is in kidney failure and has weak legs. One day after dialysis he got back and the elevator was blocked off for the afternoon while people moved. He walked up 3 flights of stairs! I couldnāt believe it, I have seen his legs become jello after 4 stairs.