When I first moved to Basingstoke (a large town in the south of England) I rented a flat in a block that had been built in the 1970s. I lived on my own on the third floor (second floor if you use the American or European method of counting). The block was built in a T shape so that two wings came off the central section where I lived. This layout meant that we could all see into each other's windows, if we were so incline...