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I think I would stay home by ndtnguy
It depends on everyone's situation, of course (I had young siblings running around my parents' house while I was in college and perhaps couldn't have done that), but I can't see the logic of paying to live isolated in a dorm room, with no personal interaction with other students or faculty, under most circumstances.
As for a gap year, it would probably depend on the discipline. If it were me, I might have done it, especially if I could have used the time to do research somewhere fun that could have rolled into a project when I got back. But if you were doing something in, say, a mathematical field, I would be afraid of getting rusty with a year off.