Some people prefer to live in a house, while others feel that there are more prons to living in an apartment. Are there more advantages than disadvantages of living in a house compared with living in an apartment?

The growth in urban populations means more and more people tend to live in
apartments, but there are many who still prefer to live in houses. I think when compared
with apartments, there are more benefits than drawbacks to living in houses.
Houses usually have yards where children can play and small gardens can be maintained.
This makes them very suitable for larger families. In addition, people living in houses often
enjoy better privacy and less noise because there are far fewer neighbours. Nevertheless,
the costs of maintaining a house, from utility bills to air conditioning to security, almost
always exceed those of living in an apartment. This is why even fans of living in houses
tend to have second thoughts when deciding on where to live.
Apartments, on the other hand, are usually safer as most apartment buildings have
guards and CCTV security systems, besides the fact that the many neighbours keep an eye
on each other’s residences. Nevertheless, most apartments have few or no south-facing
windows, resulting in less light penetrating the interior and rendering their residents
prone to depression and vitamin D deficiencies. It is also difficult to customise an
apartment to the needs of a family since any structural changes can potentially affect the
whole building.
I personally value privacy and silence above all other factors when choosing
accommodation. Therefore, I believe a house is a much better place to live, especially for
families with children and the elderly who need more peace and quiet. I also believe most
citizens nowadays, especially the middle class, earn enough to be able to afford the costs of
life in houses.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 21, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'populations'' or 'population's'?
Suggestion: populations'; population's
The growth in urban populations means more and more people tend to live...
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Line 10, column 50, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...s, on the other hand, are usually safer as most apartment buildings have guards a...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, if, nevertheless, second, so, still, therefore, i think, in addition, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1432.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 272.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26470588235 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83247663281 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 176.041082164 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.621323529412 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 439.2 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.6046481245 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.153846154 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9230769231 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23076923077 7.06120827912 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 19.0 4.38176352705 434% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.385526007147 0.244688304435 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123031000242 0.084324248473 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111090124536 0.0667982634062 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103466937866 0.151304729494 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106939240597 0.056905535591 188% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 78.4519038076 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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