We live in an 80s town home in Carmel Valley. Neighbors got a German Shepherd and decided to train it using an alternative method.
Didn’t work, now we get to listen to loud barking at 5:30 in the morning through the wall and believe me, we hear it just fine. We also get to smell the crap from the dog wafting in from the back yard which in true town home fashion, is mere feet from our bedroom window. Apparently, the novelty of picking up dog crap wore off after a few weeks.
Town homes and Condos are historically much cheaper because of problems like these, but people forgot about this in the last few years and ran the price up. If you could pick your neighbors, Town homes/condos would be fine, but unfortunately, the world is full of dip shits, do you really want to share just a wall with them?