At some point in our lives, many of us rent a home or an apartment because we cannot afford to purchase a home, or because we aren't sure where we want to live for the longer term.

我们生活中有些时候，很多人因为买不起房子或者不知道将来要住在那个地方而选择租房子或公寓。

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Mr Chavez says he may sell the presidential palace and move into an apartment for his term, while converting his coastal retreat into a school.

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Since acknowledging in a brief statement on Monday that he had acted "in a way that violates my obligations to my family, " the first-term Democrat and his family had remained secluded in their apartment on Manhattan's 5th Avenue.

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Thinking that we were still leaving for a year, at most, we packed up our apartment and moved nearly everything we owned into a long-term storage facility in New Jersey, where the rates were significantly cheaper than in Brooklyn.

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