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If you live in a particular place, it is your home.
I have some friends who live in Nairobi.
I live in a house just down the road from you.
If you want to say that a place is someone's home, don't use a progressive form of live. You only use a progressive form when you are saying that someone has just moved to a place, or that it is their home for a temporary period.
Her husband had been released from prison and was now living at the house.
Remember that you are living in someone else's home.
We had to leave Ziatur, the town where we had been living.
If you want to say how long you have been living in a place, you use for or since. You say, for example, ‘I have been living here for four years’, ‘I have been living here since 2007’, or ‘I have lived here since 2007’. Don't say ‘I am living here for four years’ or ‘I am living here since 2007’.
He has been living in France now for almost two years.
She has lived there since she was six.
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