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I lived in a commie block for 10 years and I'd shoot myself before I have to return in one.
People who claim it's the future have never enjoyed the displeasure of living in one. They can fuck right off.
You do know it's not only commie block or American suburb right? You can have denser, row housing, you could have better zoning. You hey privacy and and land, but you get isolation and most of your nation are mentally handicapped people from too much excess and misinformation in their life
Row houses are nice if you want to listen to your neighbors' 2am conversations and music.
GTFO with your human storage units.
Your buildings in America are built cheap af lmao. You dont even know you can live without hearing your neighbors next door 🤣
You must've lived in some really badly built stuff (not surprised, US buildings are usually on the worse side of construction quality).
I'm living in a modern German apartment building with about 24 parties. The only thing I hear are when the children in adjacent apartments go full blast at it, screaming like they're tortured (probably having to eat their cauliflower). Other than that I only heard my neighbor once, apparently having the sex of their lives (it was super quiet in the middle of the night). I chuckled and went back to sleep.
The walls between row houses should be even thicker if build properly, you shouldn't really hear anything except extremely loud bass. And depending on the quality there even are building techniques to muffle those (I think by leaving some air gap inside the wall).
Sloppy U.S. construction is your issue, not density. Walls can be built to be sound proof.
Houses in the US have thin walls. Nothing prevents something slightly denser without it being row houses, and something mixed use without it having loud and obnoxious night life.
US row house owner here: Air-gapped, sound-insulating walls DO exist here. I never hear my neighbors or their kids. My only regret is having a car when I moved here. It just sits there rusting since I can walk and bike everywhere, including to work. Should have sold it 10 years ago.
Not sure about the details of a commie block, but apartments are fine.
No matter how terrible your experience was, it was better than homelessness.