Having the privilege to live in a house without common walls to a neighbor is the biggest quality of life improvement I've ever had the good fortune to experience.
I'd take a hell of a long commute to the burbs' before I'd go back to dealing with b.s. like this.
Loud music, slashed tires if you called the cops, people smoking weed and cigars and stinking up the whole building, parking space shortages, drunks throwing up in the stiarwells, screaming matches between people in bad relationships, horribly maintained flats and every repair done on the cheap, 4am fire alarms, a rat problem the owners would not put money in to fix properly, the list goes on and on over the 20+ years I lived in rentals.
It reads like you lived in some third world country. In all my years living in various capitols, I've never had issues close to what you've described here.
The GP grew up poor in the US (by their own earlier statement) .. which tracks with your "some third world country" observation. The US is famously harshly tiered by wealth and privilege.
I'd take a hell of a long commute to the burbs' before I'd go back to dealing with b.s. like this.
Loud music, slashed tires if you called the cops, people smoking weed and cigars and stinking up the whole building, parking space shortages, drunks throwing up in the stiarwells, screaming matches between people in bad relationships, horribly maintained flats and every repair done on the cheap, 4am fire alarms, a rat problem the owners would not put money in to fix properly, the list goes on and on over the 20+ years I lived in rentals.