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": "user", "content": "I used to live in an apartment when I was a child. I didn't really like it because we had to be careful not to make a lot of noise."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, I know. I just rented a condo at the beach, a sweet little self-contained unit in a building, all on one level. My son's first question was whether the neighbors would hear him fighting with his brother! LOL"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know. It's so annoying, especially for a child. Plus, you have to make sure that you don't break anything or mess anything up."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Brits call apartments \"flats\". I like the sound of that much more! "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, I do too. It sounds cooler. I think apartments are good for those that are single, though."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I agree, if you are single and working, an apartment is great. Or, a \"tenement\" as they call it in Scotland. That's a pejorative term here in the States though! "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've never heard of that term before. A lot of college students will get an apartment so they can be off-campus."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, tenement is sort of a strange term. In the United States it has come to mean a run-down building. Not good! "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh no. That is definitely offensive to someone living in one."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, in the United States. But not in the UK. \"Tenement\" originally just referred to tenancy, in other words, any accommodation that is rented. So, not offensive in that sense. "}]