AIBU to be amazed at how far you have to walk in some houses?

[ChachiChichi]

Ok right I'm in a holiday cottage and it's taking me a good 60 steps (ok I wrote this as a guess originally , it's actually 33 but the point still stands!) between the living room and kitchen. The bedroom feels miles away. How do you manage when you live in a massive house? I only have to walk 1 step between my living room and kitchen and I don't have any corridors in my house (just a small landing). I'd find it boring walking around just to get to the kitchen /living room/ bedroom/ toilet.

AIBU to think there's just too much walking involved with some houses and it makes them boring and tiresome?

As expats we rented a ‘MacMansion’ in the USA, which was fairly typical for the area as land and housing was much cheaper than in UK.
I remember inwardly losing it when, if I was just about to leave for the park or similar, one of the very young DC would say they’d left their teddy or sock upstairs.
It felt like a 5 min walk to their bedroom 😩

@FinalInstructionstotheAudience Well yes because the travel time was causing delays to my beverage consumption and was boring. No one wants that on holiday. Anyway, I'm at home now, minimal steps, maximum beverage.

I did a brief stint in a massive place (just housesitting) and wearied of constantly settling down in the living room, putting on the TV, realising I'd left my glasses in the bathroom and trudging back down the hundred-foot corridor etc. It always felt like a pain just to go and get a pair of scissors or find a pen or do anything at all. I like the little place I have now with everything to hand. I like being in the kitchen or bathroom and being able to keep listening to the TV in the living room. Waking up in the night and stumbling the few paces to the loo and back without needing a light on. Having too little space really sucks, but having just enough and no more is great.

But my home (a flat) does not have stairs and I don’t have bungalow legs! Not having stairs is common in many cultures. I do plenty of walking (including stairs) outside the home.

Bungalow estates tend to be very quiet, dull places with not a lot going on and little in walking distance; I can see how a lot of people, after deciding to move to one, don’t get a lot of exercise. Unless they do a lot of gardening, I suppose. Bungalows do tend to have bigger gardens.