55% of Americans say they would prefer to live in a community where houses are larger and farther away from amenities – compared to 44% who say the opposite.
The problem with many apartments in the US is shoddy construction, not density.
I live in a Victorian row house, at the end of a row, so I have one neighbor I share a wall with. It’s two courses of brick with an air gap in the middle. The house is well-constructed, so we literally never hear each other. However, back when I was renting, I lived in places in the same city where the sound isolation was so poor that you could tell if the toilet paper the neighbors were using was soft or scratchy.
My wife and I both work remotely most of the time. She’s on a call upstairs right now. I don’t hear her.
The problem with many apartments in the US is shoddy construction, not density.
I live in a Victorian row house, at the end of a row, so I have one neighbor I share a wall with. It’s two courses of brick with an air gap in the middle. The house is well-constructed, so we literally never hear each other. However, back when I was renting, I lived in places in the same city where the sound isolation was so poor that you could tell if the toilet paper the neighbors were using was soft or scratchy.
My wife and I both work remotely most of the time. She’s on a call upstairs right now. I don’t hear her.