#Essay120 #Writing #Task2 Advantage / Disadvantage | IELTS Essays Band 9 | IELTS Writing 9.0
#Essay120 #Writing #Task2
Advantage / Disadvantage
Q: In the past, most people lived in small villages where everyone knew everyone else. Nowadays, most people live in large cities where they only know a few people in their area.
What do you think were the advantages and disadvantages of living in a small community?
Answer:
Currently, it is common for the majority of people to live in cities where they might not know very many people. This is in marked contrast to the past where village life meant no one was a stranger. In my view, the main benefits of living in a village were a feeling of safety and of belonging to a tight-knit community. However, the major drawbacks were a lack of opportunities for study and employment.
Living in a small area, such as a village, means that everyone knew everyone and their business. People felt safe enough to let their children play in the street and the other adults would watch out for them as well as for their own kids. People were often proud of their roots, and there was a genuine sense of belonging, possibly because also in the past many people worked in agriculture and felt a deep connection to the land. For example, I remember my grandparents telling me how it was for them as children in their home village and how connected they felt to their neighbours.
Despite this, village life could be, and probably still is, very limited in terms of education and employment. For aspiring youth, the only chance of a good education and a career outside of farming was to leave and head to the city. To give a personal example again, when I left school in my small town I could not find any suitable job and had to move to London, a situation very common in the past and still to this day for small-town inhabitants.
In conclusion, the advantages of village life were, and to some extent still are, that of security and belonging, when no one is a stranger, everyone is a friend. Despite these obvious benefits, it is an unfortunate fact that opportunities for young people especially were and are few and far between in terms of jobs and higher education.
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