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I’d like that for other people! I don’t think it’s bad if some land is less dense though? I can’t stand living in anything that has connecting walls with another house. People are loud, they don’t respect each others spaces or things, and they get super entitled to using common spaces and not sharing with others. People with children are especially bad at all this. But eh, maybe my experience has just been bad.
I mean, the whole crux of the issue right now is that it's illegal to build "missing middle" multi-family homes due to zoning in most of the US–it's almost entirely either single family homes or apartment blocks, two extremes with nothing in between.
It's fine if some of the land is less dense, if you don't like dealing with other people fixing this issue would be a good thing for you too! Imagine if all the people who preferred the option of a house with 2-4 units and its own yard were afforded that option; 100-300% density increases would free up so much of the land that's mostly chemically treated lawns and unnecessarily wide roads, not to mention even more rural areas farther out. I think it would do a lot to help the housing cost crisis even if nothing else were accomplished alongside it legislatively.
This is a problem with soundproofing. I didn't know I had neighbors until I saw one guy leave his apartment
Not sure what spaces you are talking about. The only common space I have is sauna, and that is optional
The solution to sound is building the walls better with sound proofing. This only happens because houses are built with so many corners cut.
Modern insulation technology has advanced further than you think. An apartment built to a modern standard will have a lot less people loudness than you're used to. Also, people get louder when the environment is loud, and cars are loud. If you take the cars out of a city, the people get quieter.