General Suburban Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

I live in an older walkup apartment with (I think) concrete floors and concrete block walls between units and the hallway (at least, when I once tried mounting something to one of those walls, I rapidly discovered that there was concrete behind the drywall. Either my neighbours are all very quiet, or it's quite effective at blocking sound transmission. Occasionally I'll hear music or TV noise in the hallway, but never in my apartment.

I've also had this wonder, if I can't hear my neighbours, does that mean that I'm the noisy one?

Yeah, we can also hear noise from the hallway, doors in a multi-residential towers are intentionally not sealed (hallways are maintained at positive pressure for ventilation), so it's unlikely that could be easily eliminated, but it's not really been a problem, it's only occasional and it's not sustained.  We can also hear plumbing noise in the washroom, I feel like that could be fixed, but, it's only in the washrooms, so I don't really care.