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wood is a surprisingly good insulator, it just works differently than concrete by "absorbing" the noise as it's a soft material compared to "bouncing" the noise in a concrete building.

I lived in a concrete building without concrete separators between adjacent units and basically never heard my neighbours. My more limited experience with wood apartment blocks isn't all that different.

The province made a big hullabaloo when they increased the wood construction limit to 6 storeys, but few buildings have actually been built to that height yet. The most buildings I've seen take advantage of it is actually suburban hotels! The Sandman Hotel in Stoney Creek was actually the first 6-storey wood structure in Ontario.

The reality is that most urban mid-rise construction is simply too complex for wood and usually exceeds the height to an at least technical 7-storeys in order to provide rooftop access, as well as other structural complications resulting from required setbacks, etc.

The US has "5+1s" buildings a dime-a-dozen all over the country, which are generally 4-7 storey apartment buildings with a ground floor made of concrete construction and 3-6 storeys of wood apartment units constructed above, often wrapped around a central concrete structured parking garage. These have proven affordable to construct and usually have fairly large floorplates, but for whatever reason haven't really made it north of the border.