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In some countries, many more people are choosing to live alone nowadays than in the past. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

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It is true that in some countries, there is an increasing trend in the number of people who choose to live alone.
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 lifestyle are in equal measure. On the one hand, solo-living can be disadvantageous, for reasons related to the feeling of loneliness, and other difficulties when they change their minds. With regard to the former, living alone may mean that people must move far away from their support networks, and
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, they may miss some moments
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 as when making and eating dinner with others.
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 can increase the risk of loneliness. The
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 point is that when someone who as been living alone for a long time decides to live with another person
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 as when getting married. They
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 have to change lifestyle quite dramatically. If they did not quickly get used to fitting in with the routines and lifestyle of another person, it could easily ruin the relationship.
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 tendency of solitary living,
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, could be considered from the opposite angle in terms of a sense of freedom, and the learning of new skills. Chief among these is that if someone lives alone, he can have a plenty of leeway to do more of what he wants at a time convenient to him. There is no need to take into account whatever it is that the people he is living with are doing or plan to do. As far as the
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 there might be opportunities for you to learn some important skills from living
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 as how to cook by yourself, how to take care of yourself, and how to value money.
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 might be because when you live with other
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(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
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, especially with your parents, they may do everything for you. To summarise, the trend in one-person households will have both beneficial and detrimental effects on individuals

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