I live in a pretty big commieblock and it's a mixed experience.
On one side you have to live with others noises (and smells) on a daily basis and even if they are mostly nice ones like piano lessons and pancakes it can get annoying for some people. Oh, and some garbage WILL end up in the surrounding green spaces and stay there if nobody takes care of it.
On the other side you easily meet people and always find someone to take your packages, care for your pets or let mechanics in while you're away. Then there's probably the condensed neighbourhood with spacious surroundings so you get that 'walkable' neighbourhood you guys love so much and still lots of parking and nature nearby.
>>1889821Nah, that depends entirely on you and your neighbourhood wherever you are. Lots of commieblocks were turned into or are build as ghettos, true, but dedicated neighbourhoods managed to avoid or reverse that downfall at least in parts. After all it's so much easier to meet and visit neighbours in a residential complex at evey turn you have to be a dedicated antisocial in the first place to not make at least one or two nice acquaintances.
>>1890138The free market makes it difficult to give extra benefits to small interesting business even if the small ones could improve the inner city quality wise. Because that'd still be unfair competition. So we end up with who can pay the rent and those are the big ones.
>>1891665>>1891691Mine has massive concrete walls anything short of a hammer drill is useless but I can still hear my neighbours home cinema setup.
