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Shared walls are terrible 95% of the time. No respite from people if you have to hear people 24/7.
Coughing. Children mewling. Coughing. TV. TV ads. Throat clearing. Other people’s music. Coughing.
My apartment is so quiet. Like, yeah, I can hear the neighbours drilling but that can't be helped. When I close the windows, I barely hear anything from outside. But of course if you're talking about the most affordable kind of construction, noise isolation will definitely suffer.