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The houses are so close together and have so little yard I don’t see why they didn’t just turn them into townhouses.
Probably local planning restrictions, they’re quite fucked up in the states.
Plus, people are obviously superstitious about shared walls.
If you would leave out that damn car and made the house taller, you would have like 3 times the space, which is totally enough. Not for that money though.
What a poor use of land and space for housing. Why not increase density with at a minimum a duplex or triplex? This is ridiculous.
A lot of people don’t want to share walls.
“Hey uh, I have 3 loud kids and a wife who is loud during sex. Wanna be my neighbor?”
Then maybe develop the concept of a brick wall and social skills.
These types of houses won’t protect you from noise. You’re never more than 5m away from your neighbors and only separated by cardboard. You will hear them.
I’m currently living in an apartment building from 1910 or so, made from proper bricks. Hardly ever even notice that I have neighbors.
Yeah, it’s almost impossible to build with bricks in California. (Earthquakes)
Then try concrete instead. For European mid-rise firewalls, that‘s pretty much standard.
Reading this thread has taught me that soundproofing a shared wall isn‘t possible in America.
You just underestimate how noisy women having orgasms can be. 🤣
If you can be heard through a decoupled double layered brick wall, you can also be heard through two wood frame walls standing 12 feet apart, especially when there are windows in them.
My current place is super quiet. I essentially never hear anyone and it’s quite relaxing.
I’m on the sixth floor in a building with 100 units, it’s just built well.
US-americans: apartments suck, I want a single house
Also US-americans:
Meanwhile, in the civilised world:
