The walls are paper thin. The floors are thin concrete but because the walls are so thin between units, you can hear soft spoken conversations. I happen to be unlucky enough to live next to a couple with a baby that not only like banging against the walls and having their baby cry right by my bedroom wall, but they also enjoy slamming every door and cabinet in the house all day from 6am-10:30pm and often outside my window too. Speaking of windows, the glass is so thin they might as well not be
...there. The courtyard facing units I find are the worst units to have because in addition to the neighbors beside you, you can hear everything that goes on in the courtyard too. You cant listen to music in your own home, even at level 1. You cant watch tv loud enough to hear the words. You cant even have a phone conversation without your neighbors unintentionally eavesdropping on your call. AND, anything your neighbors do above below, and diagonally, can hear too. Because even though the floors are concrete, there is a break between them. Break in the concrete happens at the walls where the unit ends. I can hear my neighbors party and their kids bouncing balls off the wall to my bottom left. Also I can hear the doors slamming on my top right. I have not been able to sleep through the night even once in the past month and a half. I bought a white noise machine and that helps, but not enough to keep me asleep. Dont be fooled by the heavy duty concrete pillars. My sleep schedule is so messed up I fall asleep during the days now and its messing me up. I cant use earplugs because not only will I miss my alarms but I wake up with aching in my ears from the pressure. I honestly dont know what to do. I dont feel like moving again but I need to get some good sleep. I find myself leaving the apartment frequently to not deal with the noise.
I was in the gym on the ground floor one day; Which is laying on the foundation, and someone who lives right above the gym (above a 30 foot ceiling), told me they can hear everything that goes on in the gym and they get woken up 5am daily by people working out.
Overall, you can hear walking and slamming of things, even on the ground in the apartments in front of you and to both sides. This community is visually pleasing but way too noisy.
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