If you’re spending a single night or a few nights in a property, you’re ‘staying’ there.
If you’re sleeping there in the medium or long-term - for instance, if it’s an apartment you rent when you start a new job in a new city or somewhere you plan to stay for many years - you’re ‘living’ there.
Opinions differ on the exact time-scale which separates the two.
Generally though, if you have some sort of formal rental agreement, and have most of your possessions with you, you are ‘living’ there. You ‘rent’ the accommodation, a landlord ‘lets’ the accommodation.
Of course, if you’ve bought a property and it’s your main residence or ‘base’, you’re ‘living’ there.
If you’re in a hotel room or have chosen a room, apartment or house through an online tourism marketplace (confusingly, sometimes referred to as a ‘holiday let’), you’re ‘staying’ there. You have a ‘booking’ or ‘reservation’.
To slightly complicate matters, rock stars might live in a hotel. (Why buy or rent somewhere long-term when you’re constantly travelling the world? Why cook your own meals when you can just call room service whenever you’re hungry?)
For us mere mortals though, it's highly likely that a hotel provides only temporary accommodation, used when we’re visiting a country for work or pleasure.
If you’re spending a single night or a few nights in a property, you’re ‘staying’ there.
If you’re sleeping there in the medium or long-term - for instance, if it’s an apartment you rent when you start a new job in a new city or somewhere you plan to stay for many years - you’re ‘living’ there.
Opinions differ on the exact time-scale which separates the two.
Generally though, if you have some sort of formal rental agreement, and have most of your possessions with you, you are ‘living’ there. You ‘rent’ the accommodation, a landlord ‘lets’ the accommodation.
Of course, if you’ve bought a property and it’s your main residence or ‘base’, you’re ‘living’ there.
If you’re in a hotel room or have chosen a room, apartment or house through an online tourism marketplace (confusingly, sometimes referred to as a ‘holiday let’), you’re ‘staying’ there. You have a ‘booking’ or ‘reservation’.
To slightly complicate matters, rock stars might live in a hotel. (Why buy or rent somewhere long-term when you’re constantly travelling the world? Why cook your own meals when you can just call room service whenever you’re hungry?)
For us mere mortals though, it's highly likely that a hotel provides only temporary accommodation, used when we’re visiting a country for work or pleasure.
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
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Daily life words /
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