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Americans will do anything but build townhouses
Man I would actually consider this over sharing a wall. If you've never had a very loud, persistent neighbor you just don't get it
Just build a good, thick wall. If you can hear your neighbor through the wall, your house is shit
The most effective wall you can build is a concrete block wall/insulated air gap/concrete block wall. It seems like overkill but this is the type of construction that cinemas have between individual theaters. The only way to get more isolation (aka the "good, thick wall") is to decouple the walls, and at that point you're at separate structures anyway which adds the advantages of fire breaks and not having to have a legal entity governing common components like that roof.
Do you have a link to more info about this design? I'm also curious in achieving the same thing in floors, so even someone jumping up and down with steel toed boots can't be heated between floors