You are conveniently ignoring the parts of my post that have no solution in sound insulation at all: fresh air in both window and balcony and smell (which in my example isn't just fish smell like in sibling posts but actually carcinogenic as well).
Look I don't mind if you want to live with those things. No issues at all. If you love it, go for it.
Just don't make me do it.
And yes I've lived in properly built concrete apartments where I did not hear my neighbors at all and I had no balcony and I was able to open my windows without issue. Not in NA and I had one of the very luckily located apartments out of like 100 in that building.
I've also lived in concrete apartments with a balcony and all the problems I described earlier. Never again as long as I can help it.
Look I don't mind if you want to live with those things. No issues at all. If you love it, go for it.
Just don't make me do it.
And yes I've lived in properly built concrete apartments where I did not hear my neighbors at all and I had no balcony and I was able to open my windows without issue. Not in NA and I had one of the very luckily located apartments out of like 100 in that building.
I've also lived in concrete apartments with a balcony and all the problems I described earlier. Never again as long as I can help it.