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Other HN users keep telling us that we should support dense housing development. I think those people have never lived in an apartment complex with trashy neigh
by nradov 3mo ago
Other HN users keep telling us that we should support dense housing development. I think those people have never lived in an apartment complex with trashy neighbors.
- richwater 3mo agoAs we continue to devolve into a lower and lower trust society, the problem will get worse. If people want to live in a shoebox surrounded by thousands of other people in a shoebox, I wont stop them but I"m not going to normalize it either.
- vouaobrasil 3mo agoIt's usually because they're not the ones living in the dense housing, or will ever.
- Foreignborn 3mo agoi live in shibuya and i have countless videos where it’s <40db outside. just make the damn building with noise in mind (RC, interior insulation, gapped flooring, etc). it’s very possible. (btw I am as country bumpkin as they come, my village has less than 200 people so i understand rural living.)
- somenameforme 3mo agoJapan isn't America. People, all throughout Asia, are a million times more considerate and reasonable, with Japan near the top of this list. There's also far fewer crazy people - be that mentally unwell, people on drugs, or whatever else.
- bob1029 3mo ago> interior insulation How to live like a king. Putting material like rockwool in the dead spaces can make an incredible difference in acoustic performance.
- m463 2mo agoYou know what wonderful thing I noticed about Japan wrt noise? Their heavy equipment doesn't have those backup beepers. I watched a construction site and all I heard were the well-muffled excavators grunting a little to move their hydraulic arms.
- strken 3mo agoI've lived in an apartment complex with weirdos before, including one lady who used to scream at random times, but we basically couldn't hear them. The screaming lady was only audible if the window was open. All the apartments were separated by brick or concrete, the front doors had lobbies that acted as baffles, and all the living areas were carpeted and had good thick ceilings.
- kombookcha 3mo agoThis is very much my experience too. The difference between stout, newer buildings and old tenements are night and day. I used to live in a place made of massive thick concrete slabs with airgaps, and the only time you could hear neighbours was when somebody was using a drill, or on occasion, one neighbour singing in the shower so it travelled along the water pipes. Other places, you can follow conversations through the wall if you're attentive and they're raising their voices.
- vladvasiliu 3mo agoWell, the issue is that it's difficult to know beforehand how good the soundproofing is. Even if you go to visit and it's quiet, is it because the neighbors are away or simply considerate? What happens when new ones move in? I used to think living in a new building would be insurance enough. According to a colleague who lives in an apartment built in the 2010s, it's not. For reference, this is in Paris, where there were laws passed in the 2000s supposed to enforce soundproofing in new developments.
- throwawayffffas 3mo agoI have lived in apartment complexes my whole life, I have only had to make a noise complaint once, and it was because the power company decided to park a power generator under my window for the building across the street. Ironically all of my noise worries these days do not come from my multi tenant development but the neighboring single occupancy houses that have parties in their yards.