I grew up in Taiwan on the pacific rim of fire (think earthquakes) as result buildings are ugly and concrete most of the time. And it is noise. I could hear eve

I grew up in Taiwan on the pacific rim of fire (think earthquakes) as result buildings are ugly and concrete most of the time. And it is noise. I could hear everything and everyone and you get the strange marble dropping sound to boot too. At the end proper sound proofing worked, used multiple layers of wood and dry wall worked wonders.