Is it better to live alone or live with family?

Always with family. I really love to be with my family, and even if I am old already, I still prefer to stay with them. You can easily get the comfort you need with them. And you can also easily ask for help without any hesitation. For me, it will really be hard to live without them or be far from them.

if only, i would like to remain single, talking about the hardship of being a family man. you have to have a good job to provide for the family. but nevertheless, having a family with kids is much better to be single all your life.

I live with my children and my dogs. I am divorced and do not have a man living with me. I am fine to make my own meals and I enjoy doing my own washing of dishes plus laundry. I have got a 3 bedroom bungalow in a quiet close. It is just three miles from the sea and so is the town center. When I was a child aged 0-10 I lived with my mom, my dad and my sister. Then my parents got divorced and my dad moved out. I lived at college from age 16 to 18 in term time. I went home at weekends and in the holidays.

When I was single, I preferred to live alone. As I could do anything I liked and nobody would bother me. I should enjoy the freedom before I had my own family. Now I am married and I like to live with my family since it is not easy to take care of a child alone. We have to go to work in the daytime. So at least my parents can take care of our child when we are not at home. I love China

I am a single no more but when I was a single I never thought of living alone. But I was forced when I had to study in the city and it was taking too much effort and time for me to travel from home to school and from school back to home. But I swear I did never enjoy those times I was separated from my family. I still prefer living with my family so that I could not wait for the weekend so that I could go home and see my family again. For me living alone is not the kind of life I would prefer.

chiyosan: nowadays to live alone is difficult. Your mind will go into wrong directions when u are alone. Instead when you live with your family people your time is regulated, your food is regulated, your attitude is regulated.

Hi chiyosan! I think I prefer to live with my family. With the kind of personality that I have, even though I don't like people messing with my stuffs, I would still want to live with my family. I'm the kind of person who wouldn't be able to stand alone. I mean, I can do household chores and I will manage with my own cooking and all that stuffs, but there are things that I wouldn't know what to do! If the sink gets clogged, I wouldn't know what to do and who to call. If something gets broken, I wouldn't know what to do! I will probably end up contacting my family just to ask what to do. And even if I will be living alone, I will still go back to my family every now and then because I wouldn't want to stay in my house alone like during weekends or long vacations. I may go to my friends but that wouldn't be every weekend, right? I mean, I don't know. Maybe I'm just living with my family too long that I'm becoming too dependent on them, especially to my mother.

I think it's better to live alone but close to your family. Even though you can consider yourself independent, you'll still need support from your family no doubt. I guess it depends if you can handle yourself without needing help of not. Also, every once in a while you'll be missing your family so it's better to live close to them.

I had a thot staying away from family is real fun when i was single. But its not easy, the life of family support helping in dishes, washing and others will miss if we are alone and doing it on our own. I mean a feel of loneliness will kill us and a family is real heaven, this is my self experience!

For me I think this question will be getting diverse answers. The reason is that it really depends on the culture of the people. There is nothing wrong with both answers here, both away from the parents and with the parents. Asians would be living with their parents until they get married. For many Asians, they already get married, and they still live with the parents. This is because the culture of the Asians rely on the closeness of the family. They are very close knitted to each other. This is in fact where problems arise. When they get married, and the other brothers live with them together, and to each his own, each family caring more for his own family, so grabbing and politics happen. Where for the Westerners, singles still move out as long as they reach the age of adulthood. This is in fact a good training for them to live on his own, being totally independent. It has its own advantage. The disadvantage is that the relationship with the parents are not usually developed to the max. I think that is the only disadvantage.

Hello chiyosan! I started to live independently when I turned 19. This was due to necessity because I had to work full time and It was really hard for me to go home everyday since my family lives in the province. At first it was really hard because like what you said I had to cook my own food, wash my own clothes, pay the rent and bills. Whew! =) But if you ask me if back then I would have preferred otherwise, I would say no. Living alone was a very humbling experience for me. I got to know the hardship of your parents to make a living and I got to appreciate them all the more. Anyway, I often visit my family if time permits so I still get to enjoy being spoiled up by them once in a while. hehe. =P

I would prefer to live with my parents and with my family. Love is to be shared. The pleasure of being with parents and with family cannot be understood or enjoyed by a heart which is made of stone. Man is a social animal. If you are an animal you cannot understand all these things. The lion, the jackal and certain animals are living with family and with parents. The bees and ants are living with their families, friends and relatives. It is very difficult to live alone. If enquire a person who is living alone he would tell you how much suffering he is undergoing.

Its not safe for me to live with my family as they are that bad - for my own safety I have to not live with them which is heartbreaking. However I don't think its the case for most people. Freedom is important and independence - if you get to a certain age and are able to live out its probably better for you to do so just to have self-respect you are doing your own thing and freedom makes you feel better. Its not all plain sailing living alone has down sides - sometimes there's all the housework and only you! If you are having trouble supporting yourself and your family are good people which it sounds like they are then it would be silly to move out.

Problem with family is that they want to live with u as they like, U cant be urself with all folks around. You have to be nice. You have to company with good people. Whatever you doing, you cant make every one happy. In the duration of your 100 good things, one slightest mistake will their point of objection. If you have to be your own, try living alone. It makes you stronger, confident and helps in finding true yourself.

If I am given the choice I would like to live alone because nobody would ever get to my nerves. However, I can't deny the fact that family can help me during hard times so I think I would live nearby so that I can visit them often. That way I can still get my privacy as well as still being connected with my family. Hope my idea helps you make your decision. Good luck and have a nice day..

I have lived both on my own and with my family, and I have to say that both of them have their plus sides. Living on your own, you have the option to have space that you need to do your work, but at the same time you have to pay for everything yourself and do all of the house work. At least if you live with your family you can share this out to some extent. I am living with them at the moment and I have my own bedroom and office so that I can get away whenever I need to. My family understand that I work from home and that I do need that space in order to do so.

I prefer to live with my family around because even now that I have my own family, I missed the moments we shared with my parents, brothers and sisters even nieces and nephews after dinner time. We have a spoonful of talk of what was happening as the day past by.

Hi chiyosan, I hope that all is well with you. I moved in to my new studio-type home on the 12th of July this year. My family live close by. There's a saying that familiarity breeds contempt and that good fences make good neighbors. I feel that this is truly an awesome arrangement. I have my privacy, but I can be there for them whenever they need me and they can easily get to me when I need help. Actually, we see each other almost everyday and we share stories, jokes, food, etc. We talk about problems and possible solutions. God bless you, chiyosan!

For me it's always with the family . I just can't think otherwise . I feel me and my family are just complementary to each other . Never wanted a space in life . I love to be with parents and siblings . We are so attcahed as well as dependent on each other . we like to be of help to each other and the deep bond between each one of us is so strong . Hope and pray God keeps us like this forever .

Living with the family is better of course! one is the loneliest number...Being lonely is not fun, but with your family, life is a bit easier with everyone helping out with everything, only downside is the lack of privacy.