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「Comparison between dorms and apartment on campus」

There are a lot of differences between dorm’s life and apartment’s life in the U.S.

First of all, apartment’s fee per month is cheaper than dorm’s fee. In fact, I have heard from a lot of people many times that apartment fee is cheaper than dorm’s fee. In my case, I am living double room in dorm, which is near the campus. And I pay approximately $800 a month as housing fee. On the other hand, according to my friend who is living in apartment, its fee is almost $300 a month.

Secondly, apartments have more rooms and furniture than dorms. Unlike the dorm’s room has just one room, there are a lot of rooms in apartment. Hence dorm’s rooms have desks to study and closets in general because of there are not space to place a lot of things. In contrast, in apartment, there is a lot of furniture such as couches, big table, and so on.
Thirdly, residents in apartments can cook in room, whereas residents in dorms can’t do that since although apartments have kitchen in room, rooms in dorms don’t have. Unlike residents in dorm have to eat meals in restaurants and dining room or buy meals, residents in apartment cook and eat in room, which means that they don’t have to eat outside as long as they don’t require that.

Finally, dorms have more safety than apartments because dorms have card scanner to identify residents who are living in there, on the other hand apartments don’t have the security in general. In another case, although there is a reception near the entrance in dorms, general apartments don’t have a reception. Even if a suspicious person enters the dorm, they can’t enter because dorms have scanner systems and a reception. In contrast, it is possible to enter for a suspicious person in apartments because they don’t have those systems.

In brief, there are a lot of differences between dorm’s life and apartment’s life. Which comfortable to live in dorms or in apartments depends on people