As far as I remember, 住 means 'live' when they are used in sentences. 生活 functions as a noun, life And it used also used in Korean, though we use 생활 in everyday writing rather than 生活. But, when we learn hanja, we choose 生活.

住 means "to live" or "to reside" 生活 = life.

“住”is a verb.It means "sleep" ,"rest".Long time or short.for "生活“is a verb.It means live somewhere long time and work(or study,make a living and make friendship in there. Look the two sentences and try to find the difference 小明在北京生活 Xiaoming lives in Beijing 小明住在旅馆 Xiaoming in a hotel "live" means "居住" .Sometiomes it also means "生活"

seems there are many good answers, but still i want to mention one difference between these two words 住：is more oral 生活：is more literal hope this could help

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