A person’s home is as much a reflection of his personality as the clothes he wears, the food he eats and the friends with whom he spends his time. Depending on personality, how people see themselves and how they allow others to see them most have in mind an “ideal home”. But in general, and especially for the students or new wage earners, there are practical limitations of cash and location on the way of achieving that idea.
Cash shortage, in fact, often means that the only way of getting along when you leave school is to stay at home for a while until things improve financially. There are obvious advantages to living at home: personal laundry is usually done along with the family wash, meals are provided and you pay a minimum rent for it if any at all.
On the other hand, much depends on how a family gets on. Do your parents like your friends? Are you prepared to be tolerant when your parents ask where you are going in the evening and what time you expect to be back?
If you don’t like the idea of living with the family the possibilities are well-known to you already. You can find a good landlady and rent a room till you make enough money to buy a flat or a house of your own.
Most families in Britain live in their own houses, rather than in flats or apartments. The houses are not always very big, and they are often built very close together. You may want to live in a detached house (the house of your own) or in a semidetached house (two houses under one roof). Many people live in the so-called “terraced houses”, usually two-storeyed houses that are in a long line, connected to each other. Each entry here belongs to one owner and is considered to be a house. Перевод пожалуйста