This is the answer. I have a nonstandard sleep cycle (I worked nights for a decade) and that alone keeps me out of apartments. I refuse to subject a downstairs neighbor to me being most awake at 1am, and I likewise can’t sleep when my neighbors are awake.
Yeah, I have a different sleep schedule too. But, it doesn’t mean that I can’t live in apartment. It just means I can’t live in a poorly built apartment with bad sound isolation between floors.
I’ve been in high quality apartments where you could never hear the neighbours at all. The problem is, there’s no requirement to build them like that, and it’s much cheaper not to, so they don’t tend to do it. If I could be guaranteed not to be disturbed, I’d probably prefer a high-rise. But, I’ve had too many bad experiences with loud neighbours, or with air leakage so I could smell it when my neighbours were smoking.
That’s definitely part of it. But, also because it’s not part of the building code, they can just lie. So, even if you go look at a luxury apartment building, they might tell you that it’s high quality and you can’t hear the neighbours at all. Maybe if you get a chance to talk to someone who lives there they can tell you the truth. But, in my experience a lot of real estate agents / rental agents / landlords and the like lie.
This is the answer. I have a nonstandard sleep cycle (I worked nights for a decade) and that alone keeps me out of apartments. I refuse to subject a downstairs neighbor to me being most awake at 1am, and I likewise can’t sleep when my neighbors are awake.
Yeah, I have a different sleep schedule too. But, it doesn’t mean that I can’t live in apartment. It just means I can’t live in a poorly built apartment with bad sound isolation between floors.
I’ve been in high quality apartments where you could never hear the neighbours at all. The problem is, there’s no requirement to build them like that, and it’s much cheaper not to, so they don’t tend to do it. If I could be guaranteed not to be disturbed, I’d probably prefer a high-rise. But, I’ve had too many bad experiences with loud neighbours, or with air leakage so I could smell it when my neighbours were smoking.
Technically, I could live in an apartment. But I can’t afford a nice one, so I can’t live in an apartment, haha.
That’s definitely part of it. But, also because it’s not part of the building code, they can just lie. So, even if you go look at a luxury apartment building, they might tell you that it’s high quality and you can’t hear the neighbours at all. Maybe if you get a chance to talk to someone who lives there they can tell you the truth. But, in my experience a lot of real estate agents / rental agents / landlords and the like lie.