If I want to ask a friend of mine where he is living could I use both sentences below in the same context?
1 where are you living
2 where do you live
If both are wrong, then what is the difference between 1 and 2?
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'Where are you living?' would be used more often when you know the other person is living somewhere temporarily for some reason, or does not have a fixed home. The verb form is the present continuous which we can use to talk about something which we think is temporary, for example: I'm working in London for the next two weeks.
'Where do you live?' would be used for a general enquiry about a person's home location, and uses the simple present.