I have heard that Appartments in Russia are built all concrete and that explains why participants can have loud parties there without neighbours complaining thanks to better soundproofing.
Here in North America appartments have thin walls usually drywall or wood ( even the concrete buildings have only concrete structure but the inner walls are not concrete) so the neighbours would call the cops because of noise.
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I experienced it in the USA in hotels and motels… 
while you are having sex with a very loud girl, neighbors go out to the balcony to smoke
This type of construction in the USA is also the reason why all houses collapse like matchboxes during a hurricane.
Yeah a friend of mine met an American girl and emigrated with her to USA ten years ago. They live in Florida. He built their house of reinf___ed concrete. When there is a Hurricane he simply shuts the steel shutters in front of the windows and wait til it is over while all the neighbors run to shelters. 
What are houses made of in the US? Wood?
mostly out of wood. Stone on stone or concrete will cost 3 to 4 times more. That why.
That’s crazy, it’s like they’re living in the middle ages
Those houses are also consumed by fire and turned into ashes in few minutes before firefighters arrive
Well, here in North America, they have different perception. They see stone or brick house as old middle age houses ( most of those houses are classified as historical) and wood houses as modern
With the wood prices rising I do not see a big advantage over a sturdy European house anymore…
Because the labor costs more in North America. Building a house from bricks or stone is time consuming. In Europe they use cheap immigrant labor to work on construction. In North America, construction workers are well paid.Wood houses are built very fast, sometimes the house is already assemb__d somewhere else and loaded in a truck
Not sure about that. At least in Germany here is a minimum salary you have to pay to workers. No matters if locals or foreigners…
And even when the wood house is cheaper. When the wood house gets destroyed in Hurricane and you have to rebuilt it and the stone house only suffers minor or no damage we are already talking about 2 wood houses vs. one stone house.
В России слышно даже о чем говорят соседи, а когда вечеринки жалуются соседи и вызывают полицию