I'd take a cold kebab over no kebab at all!
Congrats on the new pad! At least the trade-off for all the stairs is the top floor means no noisy neigbors above you who walk on their heels and drop cooking pots on the floor at 2am! And if you are lucky... a view!

I'm on my way home right now to sit on the patio after a long week of battling broken machinery and power outages, and enjoy a nice fat one as the thunderstorms roll in.