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It was fine. In NYC roommates and I have been in different apartments that were both 5 and 6 floor walkups. This was when we were in our 20's - early 40's. Thing is that after a few weeks you don't really notice the stairs anymore. Bonus is your legs will be pretty strong!
Sure we also had to lug groceries/laundry up the same flight of stairs, a bit annoying but nothing unusual. Didn't have a car either so all that stuff would get carried x amount of blocks from the apartment or even a subway trip.
In my late 40's / going into 50's I'm not so sure I'd still do those type of walkups anymore.
PS - Yeah pay for movers when doing moves in/out of walkup buildings, you really don't want to do that yourself. It's fine when you only need to go up the stairs once/twice a day but repeatedly for a move is much harder.