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It depends on what you are writing/talking about.

Because different tenses are used to convey different situations. For example present simple is used to talk about something we do again and again eg

We go to the beach for the holidays.

Past simple is used to talk about something that happened in the past and is completed eg

We went to the mountains.

So combining these two sentences:

We usually go to the beach for our holidays but this year we went to the mountains.

People don't usually talk or write in one tense all the time. Another example.

We drove quickly to the station but the train had left.

drove = past simple

had left = past perfect.

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