NYTime Opinion: The New ‘Dream Home’ Should Be a Condo

[ocnjgirl]

Originally Posted by sonnymarkjiz

Idk, new construction lately has been hit or miss. I've lived in a condo building built in the 1930's and I'd never hear ANYTHING. I lived in an expensive upscale condo built in 2012 and I could hear everything....I could literally hear the neighbor above me alarm go off on their phone every morning exactly at 6:45....the vibration, the ring, everything.

I don't know, it seems pretty state of the art to me. I can't imagine it was designed with such state of the art materials and features and is still noisy. They sell for a little over $1,000,000.00 each, and there are 6 units. It does not look like the kind of place people with kids would live in, which alone eliminates noise, too.

https://www.architectmagazine.com/aw...loverdale749_o

[ocnjgirl]

Originally Posted by Giesela

I don't care how much the NYT thinks it consideres its wide spread audience. New Yorkers have tunnel vision with respect to their New Yorkishness and New York/center of the world/big city or at least urban bias. Their opinion might have resonance with Boston, Miama, even Philly and San Francisco, Seattle, even Denver. But for mid-size cities and smaller in "fly over country - no.

I don't know that many people in flyover country read the Architecture and Design section of the NYT. I don't know anyone who does even here on the east coast, and I assume most who do are either architects, designers, or rich people. That's why I kept saying, the article is for a niche audience, not a widespread one.