Living on your own: What do you love about it? What do you hate about it?

The first apartment that I got when I moved away from home was very small (only one room) and it wasn't that far from my parents' home. I studied in the city where I was born, and I could have stayed with my parents, but I decided to get my own place. I still remember the feeling that I got when I was alone in my apartment for the first time. I felt happy and lonely at the same time. I enjoyed having my own apartment, because I had more freedom that way. I was able to stay out as long as I wanted, invite friends to spend the night etc. I loved the fact that I was able to make my own decisions about everything. My second apartment was in a different part of the country. I was nervous before I moved there, because I didn't know anybody, but after a while I found new friends at school and my neighbour and I spent a lot of time together, so I wasn't lonely at all. I loved living in that apartment. It was on the second floor and there was an great view from the living room. There was a big window where I used to sit while I was studying. Today I am married and my husband and I live in a house on an island. I was happy while I was living alone, but I am even more happy to share a house with my husband.

I have tried living on my own as a single lady in a big city and I should say I experienced hardships because I had to do everything on my own--laundry, cooking, etc. I had to go back home and left it again when I got married.

i did not experience living on my own, and wished i had. our family's poor and i have to work, when i was younger, for the family. it would be so selfish to live on my own that time when everybody seems to be relying on my earnings. but it is such a waste.

I love living on my own. I had to move back home for a year or so when I lost my job, but I'll never do that again. I like everything about it. My own house. My own rules. Do whatever I need to do, when I need to do it. I can walk around in my underware if I wanted (although I don't). What do I not like about it? um... nothing. Can say there's anything bad about being out on my own.

I love living on my own. No one to answer to, I can come and go as I please. After my divorce I lived at my mothers with my daughter for a while. That was hard, even though it was the house I grew up in, I didn't feel like anything was mine. Now I have my own mobile home. It's not much, but its mine. My kitchen, my things, my place. What I don't like about being alone...sometimes coming home to an empty place after a long hard day at work, with nobody there to talk to, except my two cats, although they are very good listeners.:) Yeah, sometimes it gets lonely. but I wouldn't trade it.