Thank you very much.

ChatGPT, which is just an AI, says, "Sentence fragments can be used intentionally by professional novelists to create specific effects such as emphasizing certain ideas, capturing the rhythm of speech, or conveying a character's thoughts or emotions."

I mean, is it just a kind of sentence? I know, then, most grammar teachers have been doing something wrong to us. :P

Google dictionary has an item "vacuum-clean".

ChatGPT says "Yes, "I'm in (place). I'm still here." can be an appropriate way to express the idea that you are not a citizen of the place but have been living there for an extended period, and you're happy about it. This phrase communicates a sense of longevity in your stay and conveys a positive sentiment about the duration of your presence." ChatGPT is just an AI, but what do you say?

The two short sentences "I'm in X." and " I'm still here." are grammatically correct, but a longer sentence combining both looks better. To express the meaning you intend to convey, you could say: "I have lived in/moved to/immigrated to (place), and I am still here."

I don't know why langcorrect notified me of this reply since it wasn't to me, but while I'm here, I hope I'm not butting in, but:

> This phrase communicates a sense of longevity in your stay and conveys a positive sentiment about the duration of your presence.

"I'm still here" sounds to me more like you're saying that somehow, you're surviving. Whether it has positive or negative sentiments depends on the surrounding context. For example, "I got a pay cut so it's harder to keep up with rent, but I'm still here," means that somehow the speaker is able to keep their apartment despite the surrounding circumstances making that difficult. The only positive sentiment in that statement is that the speaker is glad to still somehow be able to make rent.

@vincentemelgoza Thank you for your time to correct my writing. :) I know it's good to have long sentences and short sentences mixed together because this way helps not to bore the readers. :P

@ dplinterofchaos Yes! If you got the sense of 'survival' there, I was successful. :)

Do you know 'today' also means 'the present period of time (by Google dictionary)'?

Thank you for taking the time for me. :) But do you want me to speak like a business letter? :P I'll ponder and revise it. But in the direction of my preference. :P Please, many of us are confused because we've corrected to get ready for business letters, without informed so, before we know how native speakers are speaking...XD

Oh, it's "we've been corrected" that I meant.

Oh, no, the tone of this essay feels casual and so I offered suggestions accordingly. Though at the same time, I can't say that my suggestions were aimed at producing the most natural English, either, because some of the phrasing was a little awkward and I wanted to focus on that.

I understand your concerns and if you have any preferences, I can try to keep them in mind for the future. Just for demonstration, I might write it like this:

> I've been hearing these noises at different times in the day, sort of like a vacuum cleaner or something. Always at least once in the morning, sometime in the afternoon, and the evening. This has been going on 2, maybe 3 years and it only just occurred to me the other day it's probably my neighbor's electric car. The city has its issues, but I love living here. [...]

I don't know why langcorrect notified me of this reply since it wasn't to me, but while I'm here, I hope I'm not butting in, but:

> This phrase communicates a sense of longevity in your stay and conveys a positive sentiment about the duration of your presence.

"I'm still here" sounds to me more like you're saying that somehow, you're surviving. Whether it has positive or negative sentiments depends on the surrounding context. For example, "I got a pay cut so it's harder to keep up with rent, but I'm still here," means that somehow the speaker is able to keep their apartment despite the surrounding circumstances making that difficult. The only positive sentiment in that statement is that the speaker is glad to still somehow be able to make rent.

Thanks for understanding. :) A business letter can be casual if the company decides in that direction, too. But personal writings don't need to expose everything. Novel writers don't tell everything at once at the beginning. If they did, the story ends there. Thanks for your version of the writing, but I hear the noise not once a day, but three times a day. :D

> Thanks for your version of the writing, but I hear the noise not once a day, but three times a day. :D

Yes, that is as I wrote in my suggestion. In fact my use of "at least" suggested it could be more than that, just because I wasn't sure the specific degree of certainty the message should convey.