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The issue is that everyone in the long chain of apartment construction tries to cut corner to pocket more money.

So you get these cheap cardboard new apartment where you hear everything happening in the building.

It doesn't have to be like that. But the mentalities need to change, and the fuckfaces contractors need to be held accountable for their shitty work.

The alternative is that not everything needs to be either a skyscraper or a single family home. The phenomenon is called "missing middle housing", even has a wiki article you can read. Some people need to live in a flat due to not being able to afford a house. Property value would drop if middle housing became a thing - because developers wouldn't be able to scalp you on a house you need to have, because you could just get a cheap flat instead. Living in a 6-flat building is an entirely different thing from leaving in a huge block of flats too.

Like half of Europe lives like this.

While there are other options which have been mentioned to death in the comments below. I'd also like to point out that this could be less of an issue if Apartments were not built like absolute trash shit garbage.

There is no reason you could not build an apartment by taking a standard single family home that you would find in a more rural like area and the simply stacking another one on top of it and continuing that until you no longer get approval to go higher.

Apartments are small, with crappy layouts, and generally cheap materials that makes it difficult to sound isolate. We don't have to make them like that we could just make an actual fucking house with proper materials and then just put another fucking house on top of it and another fucking house on top of that one and so on

Whenever people say this, my first response is: you should support building mixed use/mixed density.

You would have an easier time affording a single family home if there were a couple of duplexes, quad plexes, and low rise apartments around, with some small shops in the ground level.

Fewer people competing for the same single family homes and close access to bodegas and bistros. Easier time finding babysitters and dog walkers too.

We don't all have to love like Manhattan. Most of the nicest neighborhood in America are mixed density.

I used to think apartments sucked until I lived in a concrete and brick unit. It was amazing how quiet they were. The concrete walls blocked out all noise of my neighbors and traffic. I made some good friends in the units next to mine and those were honestly 2 of the best years of my life. I miss living like that

I think its more down to how she seized on her moment of fame to build a brand and try to scratch a better living for herself

Being an attractive white woman helps a lot.

I continues to astound he what little it takes to become “famous”

She got picked up by an agency that went full tilt on promotion. There are an enormous number of man hours being expended to get you to care about what this person has to say. No small feat, when you consider how many people feel the urge to post and repost this shit.

Yeah this is not real tho

For some reason she gets quoted with opinions that she never even expressed.

People are using her to make their opinions popular. She's, dare I say, a victim in this situation.

The last time this came up, several people pointed out that the source mistook a parody article for genuine reporting.
This is along the same lines as those "John Cena forgot to save between the cutscene and the boss fight" headlines.