It doesn’t help that Americans are generally terrible neighbors, and sharing a wall with them is even worse. This causes people to seek larger and larger spaces for themselves exclusively, and makes almost all apartment style living infeasible.
Gee who could have predicted that an individualist society would eventually result in everyone being a shitty person
also that american houses tend to have thinner walls with less sound insulation (than europe, i dunno about the rest of the world), which compounds the problem. not that we dont hear our neighbors here in europe. we just make do.
It doesn’t help that Americans are generally terrible neighbors, and sharing a wall with them is even worse. This causes people to seek larger and larger spaces for themselves exclusively, and makes almost all apartment style living infeasible.
Gee who could have predicted that an individualist society would eventually result in everyone being a shitty person
also that american houses tend to have thinner walls with less sound insulation (than europe, i dunno about the rest of the world), which compounds the problem. not that we dont hear our neighbors here in europe. we just make do.