• PolPotPie [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    i can only get behind this meme if the apartments have fantastic sound deadening, because sharing walls with strangers is fucking awful

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      I live in a building that was new in 2021. I have never heard any of my neighbors. Modern building materials and techniques go a long way.

        • Orcocracy [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          I think it depends a lot on whether you’re in a 5-over-1 wooden frame thing or a bigger concrete tower. The wooden buildings I’ve been in all have seemed passable to pretty bad at noise but the concrete ones have always been great, even the old run-down 1950s ones I’ve lived in (mold was awful in that 1950s one, but the noise was never an issue).

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            I’d assume older buildings to be better on noise than a modern build.

            My main boomer opinion is agreeing that “they don’t build em like they used to” grillman

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              My building is relatively new, concrete and steel construction, and my neighbor could take up chainsaw sculptures and I wouldn’t know.

              Those wooden 5-over-1s where the wood is actually sawdust and oil though? Yeah those let a lot of noise through.

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              In the handful of concrete buildings I’ve lived in both old and new they’ve all been the same. Nothing super-new though. Maybe the newest I’ve lived in was built 15 years ago or so.

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              My main boomer opinion is agreeing that “they don’t build em like they used to”

              they literally don’t, this is 90% capitalism’s fault, 10% “the way they used to build 'em substantially reduced the life expectancy of everyone involved”, depending on the 'em in question

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            Yeah, I live in a wood building now (technically a 4-over-1) that’s like 5 years old and it’s super fucking noisy. My last place was in a concrete tower from the 80s and I once tested the soundproofing around dinner: my downstairs neighbor didn’t hear an adult jumping up and down and stomping on the floor, and neither neighbor on the side heard me playing music so loud it was uncomfortable for me.

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            I live in a 1960’s concrete and brick building and you can hear everything. People walking on the stairs, your next door neighbours flushing the toilet or the people living above you fucking. On the other hand the insulation is a cruel joke and mold has optimal growth conditions.

    • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      100% feel that. When I lived in the city I had other college aged adults living around me and most of the weekend I couldn’t ever get a good night’s sleep with them blasting the stereo until like 3am.