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Some people prefer to live in a house, while others feel that there are more advantages to living in an apartment. Are there more advantages than disadvantages of living in a house compared with living in an apartment？

#people #house #apartment #apartment？
It is important to consider the building type of
home
 when searching for a place to stay. Some
people
 believe that
house
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 is suitable to live in, while others have the opinion that staying in an
apartment
 has more
benefits
 .Clearly, living in an
apartment
 has more
benefits
 than drawbacks. The
first
 point I would like to make is that
Apartment
are
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is
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 usually built closer to the public transit station, it is
very
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a very
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 advantageous location, which means more convenience for
people
 to
commuting
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commute
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.
At
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In
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 the meantime, Accommodation near the station
also
 brings more
benefits
 in
safely
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, if
people
 go
home
 late in the evening, they can arrive
home
 very quickly do not have to walk a long way to go
home
 in the dark.
However
, it could be suggested that house has large size and privacy,
people
 can buy more
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furniture
furnitures
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furniture
types of furniture
pieces of furniture
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 to decoration their
home
, even can buy some fitness equipment to do exercise and so on. But, if there are have too many furnishings which means
people
 have to spend more time to clean, it
occupy
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 time away from work or rest. Another important issue is that living in an
apartment
,
people
 might
felt
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feel
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safely
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safe
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 because
apartment
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the apartment
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 can receive protection from
twenty four
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twenty-four
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 hours
surveillance
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of surveillance
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 cameras and trained guards in every
apartment
’s main hall,
besides
, nowadays many
apartment
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apartments
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 have specific electronic locks on each floor for the elevator. So there is no doubt that living in an
apartment
 has many
benefits
,
as a result
 of apartments have some advantages of better facilities and come without any worries of maintenance, if
people
 lay emphasis on
safely
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safety
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 and convenience of life, living in an
apartment
 are a better option.
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