Apartment living

So, our accommodation in Dresden has been in a 'studio' room in a 17 floor apartment building. For the first 2 months, we lived on the 11th floor and faced a quiet street and a loud church. It took us a while to get used to the church bells going 3 times a day for 5 mins at a time; the drunk students on the street; and the very loud emergency vehicle sirens from the adjacent intersection. However, it was colder then, and we could close the double-glazed windows at nights.

Now we live on 8th floor and face the noisy street. We barely hear the bells and, oddly, the sirens are used less on this side of the road. However, the road noise is MUCH worse. And it's turned into summer so opening the windows at night almost a necessity. We had just commented to each other that our neighbours on this floor seemed quieter than the last floor and we don't seem to hear the people around us nearly as much as we did on the 11th floor. And then the students down the hall had a party. On a Tuesday night. As well as partying in their room, some of the students were hanging out, chatting in the hallway. Loudly. At 4am, having been awake since around 2:30am, Marty finally went down to ask the students to take their conversation back in their room (they were outside because it was too noisy in the room). It's fair to say that we didn't get much sleep that night.

I don't think apartment living is for me.