Re:We can do better than “same, but electric”
by jandrewrogers on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @04:39PM
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The apartments I've rented are all >1000 square feet. My current apartment in Seattle is 1350 square feet, and larger ones are available (albeit expensive). Plenty of space for furniture and stuff.
While good neighbors always helps, good sound isolation is better. The biggest source of noise in most of the places I've lived is always exterior windows. I have lived in places where you could play music surprisingly loudly without it leaking into the hallway, never mind the neighbors. We'd test it just to calibrate -- barking dogs, screaming kids, giant home theaters, etc and it was essentially inaudible.
Some apartments have terrible sound isolation, after all some decent hotels have worse sound isolation than any place I've lived, but it isn't a fact of nature.
While good neighbors always helps, good sound isolation is better. The biggest source of noise in most of the places I've lived is always exterior windows. I have lived in places where you could play music surprisingly loudly without it leaking into the hallway, never mind the neighbors. We'd test it just to calibrate -- barking dogs, screaming kids, giant home theaters, etc and it was essentially inaudible.
Some apartments have terrible sound isolation, after all some decent hotels have worse sound isolation than any place I've lived, but it isn't a fact of nature.