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In some countries, many 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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Recently, there has
beenwas
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been
 a rising trend of living by oneself in some countries. In my own perspective, living alone has the potential to bring about benefits on a personal level
while
 there remains some impact on
individual
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 cost of living and state of negative emotion. On the one hand, it gives
people
 time to focus on personal progress and themselves. From
the
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 personal scale,
this
 style of living demands
people
 to be entirely responsible
as well as
 solely orient their
life
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. It means that these
people
 could cultivate a diverse range of skills ( including: cooking meals, doing housework, repairing broken appliances ) and are able to fully self-improve
along with
 being more self-reliant.
In addition
,
people
 who live alone will have more time to focus on what matters the most to them. Young
people
 follow
this
 trend,
for example
, go
for
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 holiday more often,explore their interests and abilities and get to know themselves better than individuals who do not.
On the other hand
, it seems to have detrimental effects on emotional status and cost of living. It is inevitable that
people
 living alone will experience
the
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feelings of isolation, sadness,
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and bored
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due to
 the lack of emotional support
as well as
 conversation between them with family members and their flatmates.
This
 state of mind can worsen when they are faced with
the
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fears or confronted with work pressure.
Moreover
, individuals who live by themselves are likely to deal with a higher cost of living. It is true that when it comes to making ends meet, a one-person household might pay entirely
while
a
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sharing
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 apartment
people
 tend to share the payments equally; in
this
 sense, perhaps the trend towards living alone is negative.
To conclude
, the increasing number of
people
 living by themselves may have both positive and negative consequences, particularly in the personal financial and mental aspects.
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