No place to be placed alone in the midst of the earth.

 Isaiah said (recorded in the Book of Mormon, and obviously the same in the Old Testament)

Wo unto them that join house to house, till there can be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

2 Nephi 15:8 (LDS version because that's what I have on my computer).

I knew that was true because I have lived in rented apartments and in a rented condo. You hear other people's music, bathroom fans (one place I lived had them horrendously loud; they should have replaced them in the whole complex), phone conversations, room conversations, quiet singing, and I even lived in one place where I got the "joy" 🙄 of hearing the people across the wall having sex (and they were NOT noisy doing it).

Today I was looking at comments under a video entitled, "Why Every House Built After 2010 Feels Off (But You Can’t Explain Why)" (I haven't watched it yet, but probably will at some point in time) and thought of that scripture while reading this comment under it a few minutes ago:

@davel7014
2 months ago
Open floor plan used to mean that one room flowed into another room, say, by an arch or other wide opening, but they were still separate rooms. Now, open floor plan is one big open room with everything in it. I hate it. No privacy, noisy and anyone who walks in the front door can see the kitchen, which can be a mess. Builders need to stop pushing this open floor plan design 

 

 Truly, Isaiah knew what he was talking about. Don't let anyone tell you that he was not really saying "there's no place to be alone".

 

 

To give proper credit, this is the video the comment was under: