[muro]

Hello from Slovakia :)

Fair point. I never lived in an apartment complex in California, so hard to compare. I stayed in a few in the bay area when on business travel, but those were very nice - shared space with a pool, gym, a coffee shop part of the building. No idea how those compare to normal apartments. I did live in apartments elsewhere: in Australia (except for really bad building quality), in Switzerland, Germany, Austria. They were nice, as long as they stayed reasonably small. Once they hit some 5 floors and 20+ apartments, they stopped being a place where I'd like to live. With up to 10 apartments, they were almost universally nice, no matter where.