While I am not going to disagree with you - I do want to share something that took a long time for me to learn about apartment living (going from a middle class

While I am not going to disagree with you - I do want to share something that took a long time for me to learn about apartment living (going from a middle class upbringing in a small town and being somewhat of an introvert). Make a conscious effort to get to know your apartment neighbors. Help carrying some bags to their door, share some food or drinks, talk about friends/family/local events, send them a new years card... If your only interactions are asking to turn the volume down or don't do the $annoying_thing, yes you'll get that response. And yeah some times you'll have neighbors that simply won't engage in community building but once I figured this out I realized those people are the exception not the rule. I also ended up getting some relationships that I would have never been exposed to in my professional or personal life.