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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.
I almost never hear my neighbors.
I'd rather hear some noise and live in a walkable area than have silence and live in a car-hell cultural void
Idk. There’s something about a place so quiet you can hear goats in the distance, on occasion, and deer, chewing.
Sure. But I don't want to live there full time. I want to be able to walk to the bar, take a bus to the show, and so on.
Honestly, the distant sounds of humans can also be comforting in a white noise kind of way. Sometimes I think about how they're all part of someone's life story.