Quote Originally Posted by rkdlnd
Nobody uses парадная, that would be like a big special entrance. And notice how it's an adjective? That's because the noun it modifies is probably дверь, which is feminine. парадная дверь.
Thereby displaying total ignorance of modern colloquial Russian... A word can have the form of an adjective but act as a noun.

Oh yeah, about the actual question. I've never lived in russia,
How dare you talk about the way Russian is spoken in St Pete then? You sound like an American pontificating about BrE.

one time I saw a rat, (huge, probably about 25 inches long, with the tail.) and it jumped out of one window, ran across the подъезд (outside), and then jumped into another window.
...unlocked a tripple armour-plated door with its fangs... it wasn't a rat, it was a мышерокер.

There were also numerous cat-fights (not girls fighting, actual cats), and they would battle around the подъезд and it often got quite bloody.
Sure. You kept your lazer gun cocked each time you were getting home. Scotcher, beam 'im up, will ya.