No 13th floor?

@worpd201 Said

It is because of superstition. There is a certain unlucky stigma attached to the number 13, and not many businesses want to be associated with it.

Nor do many people want to live on "lucky 13".

@Richard142 Said

I agree with DiscordTiger the 13th can be lucky. I got my first joint bank account with my wife on a Friday 13th. It poured with rain that day, I remember it well. I've never lived at a number 13. We all have had 13th birthdays! It's time to change and make the 13th lucky. Don't golfers have a 13th tee?

@DiscordTiger Said

I've always lived in the apt with a 13 in it or address, Our house is plot 13 in the subdivision, of course I was born on friday the 13th, so its not scary to me. Come to think of it the apartments and stuff have always been open when I wanted though...

But yeah, its all superstition. Most buildings either skip the number or use the floor for none public areas

@Richard142 Said

I agree with DiscordTiger the 13th can be lucky. I got my first joint bank account with my wife on a Friday 13th. It poured with rain that day, I remember it well. I've never lived at a number 13. We all have had 13th birthdays! It's time to change and make the 13th lucky. Don't golfers have a 13th tee?

@sunandsurf13 Said

This is an interesting article on the 'unluckiness" of the 13th floor. Supposedly something like 85% of all high rise buildings don't have a 13th floor - not only because it is unlucky to build, but hard to sell or lease space on a 13th floor too.

Firefighters hate this omission as during an emergency when they have to count floors, they have to find out whether there even was a 13th floor when they factor their stairwell counts.

Which ironically may make it more unlucky to omit the 13th floor in the first place.

https://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20020913_13thfloor.htm