Sunday 13 September 2015

Would you prefer to live in a traditional house or apartment?

TOEFL Essay 7 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words. 


Would you prefer to live in a traditional house or in a modern apartment building?


Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

Model Answer:
A house is the only place where people return at the end of the day to have rest and pass their leisure with their near and dear ones. Therefore, it is highly important to have a perfect living condition inside the house regardless the category– if you are living in a traditional house or in an apartment building. Both the categories are suitable to live in but I prefer living on apartment blocks due to many reasons.

The first and foremost advantage of an apartment is its economic feature. The apartments are rented in soft terms and a reasonable fare; in most of the cases, you will have the apartment in low cost. Since the traditional houses are larger in size, if you want to hire those, you have to pay more than your estimated budget. The rent of an apartment is comparatively cheaper than the traditional house.

Safety is the most concerning issue now a day. In the apartment blocks, you do not need to worry about the safety of you or your family members as the staffs take care of everything but it is not seen for the traditional houses. You have to invest for your safety if you want to live in a traditional house. The location is one of the most important factors. You can have an apartment adjacent with your workplace or educational institution but having a traditional house in a suitable location is a matter of blessing. You do not need to maintain or repair the apartment as it needs to be done for the case of a traditional house. Here you have flexibility and you could make the maintenance done using apartment staffs and the bills are attached with your rent. But regarding the large houses, the maintenance is a bit troublesome and you might not have staffs or people to maintain the entire building.

The apartment buildings are made with different facilities like walking spaces; gardens before the apartment building, in some cases there are swimming pools and gymnasiums available too which are unavailable with the traditional houses. The apartments are of different size and shapes. You can pick an apartment after your convenience and budget. There are several rooms available; like, bedrooms, living rooms, attached bathrooms and spacious kitchen etc. and you can decorate them according to your desire within a low cost but the larger rooms of the traditional houses are not that much convenient comparing the apartment rooms.

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