Here in The Netherlands where the Bugaboo comes from, it's an expensive stroller too but it's worth every penny. Everybody has one, at one point you'd think they came for free with a box of cereals. There are less people living on the ground floor then 1st/2nd/3rd floor. For those people the Bugaboo frame is very easy to fold and carry up the stairs. Its a very lightweight stroller so even I would carry it up the stairs with one hand. The wheels come off very easy so it even fits in a very small car. The only downside of the build it that it's always two parts to carry so it's pretty difficult to use public transportation sometimes.

The Bugaboo is like the mountainbikes or BMX bikes under the strollers, here we have so much curbs to go up and down and people working on the streets but you can just walk up and down the curbs and around people at the same speed, you don't have to be worried that your baby will fall out and most important you can do it all with one hand. I suppose in the USA most people drive cars but here where most people go shopping and pick up the kids from school by foot it's the best stroller to get.

My youngest used the Bugaboo until he was 4.5 years old, I even had to take him to school and back because he really didn't like walking. And I do not own a car so I can honestly say it's been used every day for 4.5 years for everything and I think right before he started walking to school one of the extensions to click the seater into the frame broke (mainly because my son pratically lived it in and he would play, jump do everything in the Bugaboo) I mailed customerservice and they wanted to replace the extension after all those years for free.

I don't think I will have another child because the situation is not right but if I ever would, I would get another Bugaboo without a single doubt or even consider or look at another stroller.