Generation rent: why I’ll never live in a soundproofed two-bed

This flat comes complete with an electronic gate to thwart party crashers channelling their inner frat boyUntil recently, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you much about my neighbours. In the block of flats I last lived in, any nuggets of information I had were pieced together from chance glimpses, or soundbites travelling through floorboards, walls, and windows kept open in the August heat.I knew the flat downstairs were expecting a baby when I signed for their cot delivery, and judging