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In many cities today, most people live in large apartment blocks. Does this kind of accommodation have more advantages or disadvantages?

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Nowadays, considering the effect of the overpopulation, people mostly tend to live in large blocks of apartments
instead
 to own less affordable and sustainable detached houses with gardens. The following essay will analyse the positive and negative sides of
this
 type of housing. On one hand, the growth of metropolitan cities is unstoppable in terms of inhabitants, so one of the better ways to provide a home to everyone is by creating apartments complex. Despite the fact, that living in blocks means
for example
 don't have a private garden or patio.
For instance
, new developments have been realised with a lot of communal areas like lounge rooms, gyms and swimming pools to encourage people to share time together as proper little communities.
On the other hand
,
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