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I am from Baltics and always assumed naming 1st floor ground floor was weird. Turns out we are the weird ones.
What's crazy is that it's not consistent by language. Obviously we have British/Aussie/Kiwi vs US/Canadian English, but the Spanish speaking world is also fractured.
And not even by otherwise closely related geographical regions. The Nordics, one of the world's most internally cooperative group of countries, have Sweden and Denmark using the English British system, and Finland and Norway using the British American system.
Edit: I'm a dumbass
Antarctica is mixed... that means there are at least two multifloor buildings there... and they couldn't agree on it
Well that one you would kinda expect, as each Antarctic base is built by a different country - and complicated by some of the buildings being on stilts.
What? Why? On the east coast I've mostly seen ground as first floor. Sometimes below ground is counted though.
I've lived in Québec all my life, been in Montréal for 17 years, and I've never seen a building that uses the European style of floor numbering. It throws me off when I go in Europe. You may have experienced the exception rather than the rule.
We usually have RC (rez-de-chaussée/road level), 2, 3, 4...
could be. they have all been the same type of building so maybe a querk. it started off being designed “normal” and then they changed it.
Australia should be mixed. I've seen elevators labelled both ways, and personally I've referred to the ground floor as the 1st my entire life here.