Because my parents enjoyed the relative convenience of living in a Chinese neighborhood, they choose to move from my uncle's house to a 14 story apartment only five minutes away. It was closer to the train and the bustling intersections, so naturally, the rent increased almost twofold. We could've used one more bedroom, but it was about as the best apartment as we can afford at the time. It's right across from a fire station, and that comes with waking up in the middle of every night by loud sirens, eventually, we were all used to it and we lived there for another two years until we moved to our current residence.