Well it just depends on your budget. The neighborhood does make a difference. I would try to get the top floor if it's a multi story complex...no noise above plus less bugs! I prefer the larger complexes as they have more staff, etc. I live in a place my boss owns and he does everything himself...needless to say, things don't get fixed very quickly here. I'd recommend you live by yourself if you can...if that's not financially possible, choose your roommate wisely. Most places will pay for water and trash but you'll be responsible for electricity and gas...and tv and internet. Just make sure you're ready for the extra responsibilities of paying bills and if you do have a roommate, you both have an agreement of when you'll dish out the money each month for all of this. Anyways, Good luck!
Not entirely true. The bugs... sure I can see that. But noise - not always.
Sound travels in all directions. Normally we only think about the horizontal direction because we walk around on the surface. But unless you have something at the street-level to block noise then it WILL travel up... unimpeded.
So say you have a lot of trees at the street level, sure that can help block noise.
But if you're on a regular city street, noise WILL travel up. And it will be very easy to hear.
I know this because I lived in an apartment on the 10th floor in Japan, windows on 3 sides of the apartment. People talking... not so bad, but traffic - I could definitely hear all of it, even with the windows closed.
Although ... o I do miss it there. Even the traffic cos, almost everything was walking / train distance. *le sigh...*
Lol I was just saying in general. Traffic doesn't bother me but having pounding foot steps above would drive me up the wall. My next door neighbor used to drive me insane but it's amazing what pounding on the door at 1am and yelling will do.
o yes, the noise of someone above you can be bad. although how the building is built can affect that.
in the apartment in japan there was one person above us but we never heard anything. part of that could have just been japanese culture. but part of that was also probably the construction, with thick cement walls etc
Is it normal I would like to get an apartment.
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Well it just depends on your budget. The neighborhood does make a difference. I would try to get the top floor if it's a multi story complex...no noise above plus less bugs! I prefer the larger complexes as they have more staff, etc. I live in a place my boss owns and he does everything himself...needless to say, things don't get fixed very quickly here. I'd recommend you live by yourself if you can...if that's not financially possible, choose your roommate wisely. Most places will pay for water and trash but you'll be responsible for electricity and gas...and tv and internet. Just make sure you're ready for the extra responsibilities of paying bills and if you do have a roommate, you both have an agreement of when you'll dish out the money each month for all of this. Anyways, Good luck!
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"no noise above plus less bugs"
Not entirely true. The bugs... sure I can see that. But noise - not always.
Sound travels in all directions. Normally we only think about the horizontal direction because we walk around on the surface. But unless you have something at the street-level to block noise then it WILL travel up... unimpeded.
So say you have a lot of trees at the street level, sure that can help block noise.
But if you're on a regular city street, noise WILL travel up. And it will be very easy to hear.
I know this because I lived in an apartment on the 10th floor in Japan, windows on 3 sides of the apartment. People talking... not so bad, but traffic - I could definitely hear all of it, even with the windows closed.
Although ... o I do miss it there. Even the traffic cos, almost everything was walking / train distance. *le sigh...*
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Lol I was just saying in general. Traffic doesn't bother me but having pounding foot steps above would drive me up the wall. My next door neighbor used to drive me insane but it's amazing what pounding on the door at 1am and yelling will do.
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o yes, the noise of someone above you can be bad. although how the building is built can affect that.
in the apartment in japan there was one person above us but we never heard anything. part of that could have just been japanese culture. but part of that was also probably the construction, with thick cement walls etc