Students at universities often have a choice of places to live. They may choose to live in university dormitories, or they may choose to live in apartments in the community. Compare the advantages of living in university housing with the advantages of living in an apartment in the community. Where would you prefer to live? Give reasons for your preference.

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of choices to live as a student, you can live in
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dormitories or you can live in the apartments in the community. Both have
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own advantages. In my view, I would like to live in
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dormitory as it is cheap and all the activities will be
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the
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campus like gym, sport, etc
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of students are going out from there home country for there higher education in the
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. Which is very exciting for anyone, as for me when
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went out for my higher education (MBBS) to Ukraine, I was very excited and
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bit
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, as it was a totally new place for and totally new language so it was a bit scary ,like how
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am going to adjust there, but
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was excited
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because now
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am starting my
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. When
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reached there the one thing which came
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my mind was where
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am going to live should
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live in
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a dormitory
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or live in
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apartment
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an apartment
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. I chose to live in
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the dormitory
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as it is more cheap and convenient
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me everything which
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needed was there
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the
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campus only like
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if
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have to go gym
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can do it
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the
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campus only and
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can find people from my country and can get socialize with them so will not feel homesick. How living in the
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is costly and
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will have to search for the
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which will cost me a time and money both, but living in the
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have
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own benefits like: you can get your own space,can do whatever you want, can throw your
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clothes
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anywhere no one is there to scold you and if you
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a girlfriend
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you can get you personal space or you can stay together
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, you can cook whatever you want, etc. Overall
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will
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prefer
to live in the
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dormitories as it is more
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suitable
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both
university
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dormitories and apartments have
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own advantages.
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