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In article <18567@well.sf.ca.us> rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
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>I would like to consider moving to the Watergate Apartments in Emeryville.
>Have you ever lived or been there? Have you otherwise heard anything about
>this area good or bad? I know it's a quiet area, but here's my key question:
>Were the walls and floors insulated for noise? This is a key concern, since
>where I live now, they aren't insulated.

I used to work near there, and some of my co-workers lived there.  I never
heard anything about the noise issue.  They were having some plumbing
and structural problems at that time, though.  Seems that the complex is
built on a former garbage dump, and there's been some subsidence.  The
buildings themselves don't sink, because they're on secure concrete pillars
driven down who-knows-how-far.  But the pipes in the ground were all pulling
away from the buildings as the ground sank.  Same for some outside staircases
and some of the paved areas.  There was a big lawsuit in progress about 
this several years ago (the Watergate's actually a condo complex, although
many of the owners rent out their units), but I have no idea how it was
resolved.

Other than that, the buildings are ugly drab boxes, and many of the tenants
(again, several years ago) were short-timers.  Can't beat it for a central
location, though:  10 minutes to the city, five to Oakland or Berkeley.
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