It is not until I started to live alone as a college student, that I did have any experience to live in an apartment.  From my experience of living in both types of residence, there are many unique merits and demerits in both living spaces.  If I am asked to choose either a house or a apartment building as my living place,  I would like to choose traditional house despite several demerits, since life in a house brings me much comfortable life than an apartment.

 

  Traditional house generally have much larger space available for the residents, which enables us to make each necessary rooms broader and therefore comfortable.  We would take rest in more broader rooms and therefore, we can relax ourselves in released atmosphere brought by the larger rooms.  Larger furniture such as double bed or sofa, allowed to put by the broad space will make our life more comfortable.   Larger bathroom also heal our body and mind. If we live in an apartment, we have to consider the size and amount of furniture very carefully thanks to its narrow space.  When I lived in an apartment, the kitchen is too narrow to cook what I wanted to cook and my bathtub and bath room was so narrow that I could not relax so much.   In this way, larger rooms that a house have provide us more suitable place for our relaxsation, which is the most important role of a living space.

 

  Some people might prefer living in a modern apartment paying attention to its convenience, its sophisticated and urban atmosphere.  However, to keep its modern atmosphere, there are usually lots of common rules in the comunity of residents in apartment.  From my experience of looking for my apartment,  many of apartment prohibits residents to tame pets such as dogs or cats, to hang and dry clothes and mattress in balcony in order to keep its superficial beauty.  Thus, such merits at the cost of practical comforts of residents are not important for me. Moreover,  I do not care the demerit of living house.   In the end, we can be used to inconvenience to some extent.  Now I live at a house in very inconvenient place, which have few super markets.  However, gradually we become used to the trivial inconvenience thanks to the comfortable living condition.
 
Thinking merit and demerit of both living spaces, I prefer to live in a house rather than in a room of modern building because life in a house seems to guarantee my more comfortable and less-regulated life that I love.