i live in an apartment.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single level. Such a building may be called an \"apartment building\", \"apartment complex\", \"flat complex\", \"block of flats\", \"tower block\", \"high-rise\" or, occasionally, \"mansion block\" (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. In Scotland, it is called a block of flats or, if it is a traditional sandstone building, a \"tenement\", a term which has a pejorative connotation in the United States. Apartments may be owned by an \"owner/occupier\", by leasehold tenure or rented by \"tenants\" (two types of housing tenure). The term \"apartment\" is favored in North America (although in some cities \"flat\" is used for a unit which is part of a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor). In the UK, the term apartment is more usual in professional real estate and architectural circles where otherwise the term \"flat\" is used commonly, but not exclusively, for an apartment on a single level (hence a 'flat' apartment). Technically multi-story apartments sometimes referred to as mid-rise apartments and even high-rise apartments when there are many stories.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Have you ever lived in an apartment, it's usually a self-contained housing unit but it only occupies a part of a larger building."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have always lived in a house. I am not familiar with living in an apartment."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They usually call these apartment buildings or even a complex.  In Britian they are called a block of flats.  It's not always the greatest to live in them, but economical"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess it would be cheaper than renting or owning a home then."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, there are several kinds. For instance in cities like New York, people actually own them and then in other areas they are rented by tenants.  So it just depends on where you are if it's cheaper or not."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh so people can own them also."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, in some areas the apartments are owned.  Now those owners may lease them out as well, and so then they would be rented.  In our area, you just rent apartments and yes it would be a cheaper option."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see. It can really vary wherever you are it seems."}]