I live in an apartment, also known as a flat. It is a self-contained housing unit that is part of a bigger building.
nice, i also live in an apartment i think its way more comfortable than a house if you live alone
For sure. My unit is rented by my landlord. As a tenant I do not have to pay for routine repairs.
that is so nice my apartment is a 2 floor flat which has an electric elevator in the building
That saves walking up steps. Elevators, or lifts, provide vertical transportation between floors.
yep it is really helpful specially if your apartment is on the top floor
Otis Elevator invented the "safety elevator" in 1852, which uses a mechanism to lock the elevator if the ropes fail.
that is so interesting have you lived in a place with elevators beafore?
Escalator
An escalator is a type of vertical transportation in the form of a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep them horizontal.
Escalators are used around the world in places where lifts would be impractical. Principal areas of usage include department stores, shopping malls, airports, transit systems (railway/railroad stations), convention centers, hotels, arenas, stadiums and public
Apartment
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 storey. There are many names for these overall buildings, see below. The housing tenure of apartments also varies considerably, from large-scale public housing, to owner occupancy within what is legally a condominium (strata title or commonhold), to tenants renting from a private landlord