Apartments or Independent houses
By simsim11
@simsim11 (106)
January 8, 2012 1:01am CST
Nowadays in most of the cities there is a growing demand for Houses. Most of the people are looking for apartments. I am living in an Independent house. I feel more comfortable in this house when compared to the rush and crowd in an apartment. What is your opinion. Are you staying in an apartment or Independent house
What is the advantage and disadvantage of an apartment when compared to an independent house. What is your choice and what is the reason for that.
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8 responses
@larish (2191)
• Philippines
8 Jan 12
My hubby & I are now living in an apartment. Since we still don't have kids an apartment is easier to manage. Smaller space to clean, cheaper electric bill because we only have things that are really important for us plus we spend more hours at work than stays at home. We do not also need a helper because we do the household chores alternately. But we are planning to buy a house & lot (independent house) soon especially when kids start coming in.
@sudeeshp (4)
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9 Jan 12
I am staying in an independent house .and aslo like independent house because more freedom and safty in indepent house as compared to apartments .Indepent house can change and add any more thing ,but apartment is only have only one made and there will no change we can do.so I am preferring indepent house .
@simsim11 (106)
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9 Jan 12
Hi..sudheesh
Thanks for your response in this subject and I agree with you that we are more free in an independent house when compared to an apartment.As you said the Independent houses have the option of expansion vertically or horizontally but the apartment cannot expand.
@06MLam (620)
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8 Jan 12
I usually live in an apartment though most people in the UK prefer a house with a garden. I think it would be a nighmare to take care of the garden and to clean the massive house if I don't really need that much space. Also, the apartments are usually having security and this feels a bit safer to me and we can always call for maintainance from the security team which might be a bit easier than living in an independent house.
@jadoixa (1166)
• Philippines
9 Jan 12
i stay in an independent house. i would be prefer to live in one compare to apartment because being in an independent house means you are more at peace, in an apartment as you say it is usually crowded and i don't like that kind of thing going on..
@parascevi (313)
• Greece
8 Jan 12
I am living in an appartment and i really don't like it.
Living in a flat has many many disanvantages. Noise,not enough space,not having enough contact with air and sun unless you have balconies.
On the other hand there are some advantages that some people prefer flats to houses.
Some of them are the matter of safety.Flats are much more safe than houses because are much more difficult to have access in these.Houses are easy to break in through windows for ex. or the back yard.
The other disanvantage that a house has is the care of the garden. Some people don't have the time to occupy themselves with garden tasks so they prefer intead to live in a flat. I have heard this many times from people prefering flat to a house.
These are my thought about this matter. Thanks for listening.
@GuiDepp (5)
• Belgium
8 Jan 12
Well i live in an apartment, and i got no noise.
Altough we got new windows, anyway we live in a calm street.
And the advantage of an apartment in the city is; Your close to martket places, most apartments are cheaper then houses.
Disadvantages; You don't got a garden, and it the most streets in noisy.
Thanks for reading, GuiDepp.
@lilyalone (73)
• China
8 Jan 12
Most young people live in apartment in my country, China. It is extremely hard for young people who just begin to work to buy an independent house. As for me, I prefer independent house because of more comfortable atmosphere. But i have to earn more money. So fighting!
@tabatha7 (187)
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8 Jan 12
We were living in a house, but there were so many, many problems with it. For one thing, we found out (too late!) that there may or may not be lead paint in it. The ceilings looked fine when we moved in, but soon the paint started breaking up & the ceilings looked like they were going to cave in!!! Finally, the toilets & plumbing started having problems & our basement flooded!!! The landlord took Six Days to fix this. Meanwhile, it smelled so bad that we couldn't stand it. So we moved out. We would love to live in a house, but I've rented and/or attempted to buy 3 houses in this area & all of them have had similar problems & the landlords don't want to fix anything. So right now, I feel safer in an apartment. The landlord in our apartment is better about fixing stuff.
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