The best thing about living away from home is that you have more freedom. You can set your own rules, stay up late, leave your room as messy you like and invite friends to your place and have parties whenever you want with a parent- free environment is awesome, but you need to be mature enough to handle it think before you do it. A drawback is that you may feel homesick. You may miss the moments that you used to share with your family like what have you saw and what have you heard jokes from friends at school or outside of school. Another disadvantage is that you will have to pay a rent, pay the bills, buy furniture, cook your own meal and buy your own food which will definitely affect you in the financial aspect. Finally, another aspect is convenience. You will not have many of the things that you used to have at home. You will have less free time for other activities like play computer games because you will spend more time doing housework, balancing the budget and organizing things by yourself. You will be more independent by doing all this stuff.