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I feel that often the complaints associated with loving in urban apartments has less to do with the apartments themselves, and more societal trends that have ar
by screye 8y ago
I feel that often the complaints associated with loving in urban apartments has less to do with the apartments themselves, and more societal trends that have arisen out of rich people sticking to suburbs over multiple generations.
Schools are the #1 example of this.
Badly maintained rental apartments and higher crime rates are some other examples of the same.
- noir_lord 8y ago> Badly maintained rental apartments Not just badly maintained but badly designed as well. I've live in flats (apartments) since 2003 and off the two I actually liked there was a single distinguishing characteristic - They where quiet. One was a department store that was converted so the floors where thick rebar concrete and the current one was just well designed in terms of noise. Noise is an absolute determining factor on where I choose to live (as a life long insomniac it makes the difference between half decent sleep when I'm really tired and not).
- closeparen 8y agoModern high rises are almost always steel and concrete, so pretty quiet. Modern mid rises are usually a single concrete story, then wood. A low floor on a high rise is often higher quality and competitively priced with a mid rise.