Things like apartments are not even so consistent. Building codes in America are highly ineffective, whether for content or enforcement I don't know. But the la

Things like apartments are not even so consistent. Building codes in America are highly ineffective, whether for content or enforcement I don't know. But the last three apartments I lived in were just awful. Noisy and falling apart at the seams. The one before that was a 1000-unit complex in San Francisco which was of generally decent quality although we faced two evacuations in five years due to residents starting fires (a low probability times 1000 is a much larger probability) and I had to kill at least six mice. I stayed in apartments in China and Italy where things worked and I never heard my neighbors. I could live with that. But now I live in a house in the US and I'm much happier for it.