Laundry Room on the same floor of the house as bedrooms?

Mt laundry room backs up against my bedroom wall. I love it! I keep a basket at the top of the stairs for bringing dish towels and hand towels downstairs. The next morning I leave the basket downstairs to collect what I need to bring upstairs. My machines can be noisy ( the washer), I don't care. I love this system. In my other house laundry was next to kitchen and I had a laundry chute. That was fine, but I like my new layout better.

Ahh....

There are 3 things I miss about the townhouse we lived in before this house. I miss the huge master bath with the soaking tub (no tub in our master bath here), the huge walk in closet (we are lucky to have a walk in closet at all in a 1940-50's era home, it's about half the size of our last one), and the laundry room near the bedrooms. The laundry room was constructed very similar to a bathroom, tiled walls and floor, and drain in the floor. It only backed up to one bedroom and shared a wall with that room's closet. The machines were on a wall that was shared with the stairwell. Noise was never an issue. So convenient! Currently, my laundry room is below our bedrooms. It's a 90+ foot long single story home. You have to walk from one end to the other to get to the basement door and then to the other end to get to the laundry room. Dh had said he would put in a laundry chute, but that hasn't happened.

Basements are unheard of in San Diego. I live in a ranch style home so our laundry is on the same level as everything else in our home, but it is near the kitchen. The garage holds our washer/dryer and our garage leads right into our kitchen. I never hear the machines unless I'm in the kitchen and there's something with a zipper inside the dryer.

I'm guessing Mike would have a conniption about the water heater in our attic then ... a very common place for them here where people don't have basements.

I would absolutely put it near the bedrooms. It just makes sense to me. My laundry room is on main floor, but the second floor would be much more convenient.

*shrug* Don't think too much about it.  Nothing's ever a problem until it's a problem, KWIM?  The only issues we've ever had with leaks from upstairs to down have been in the plumbing (both in our old house where the older pipes simply failed, and in our new home where normal settling caused a couple of joints to separate), and anyone who has a bathroom upstairs opens themselves up to that kind of leak/water damage.  Oh, and another time in our old house we had a leak from the attic that originated in the A/C condensation drain pan - which again, anyone with an attic A/C unit risks having.

We're proactive about maintenance and about dealing with small problems before they become big problems, so we've rarely had a big problem.  And for those times when you don't see the big problem coming - that's why we have homeowners' insurance.