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Post by jenjie on Jun 5, 2020 20:40:05 GMT
Spinoff from the weird neighbor thread! Some people have never parked in the garage because it’s used for storage or repurposed into additional living space. Others have never heard of such a thing, because the purpose of a garage is for parking the car.
If you’d like to play, please answer and tell what state or country you live in.
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Post by busy on Jun 5, 2020 20:41:57 GMT
I have always parked in the garage until the covid lockdown. I've converted my spot in the garage into a gym, and it's going to stay that way. So... I'm not going to be parking in the garage until we move.
I live near Portland, OR, so climate is mild. It doesn't freeze much, and even if it does, I work from home, so scraping windows isn't something I'll have to do often. Even when it does freeze, it's usually light enough that my defroster can take care of any ice and I don't have to scrape at all.
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Post by hannahruth on Jun 5, 2020 20:42:07 GMT
Every time, even when I know I am going to use the car again later in the day.
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Post by jenjie on Jun 5, 2020 20:42:09 GMT
I also took a poll on FB!
I’m in NJ. Originally from Philadelphia. I know very few people who park their car in the garage. Here they are mostly used for storage or even repurposed into additional living space.
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Post by leannec on Jun 5, 2020 20:42:48 GMT
I live in Canada ... it's cold here for most of the year so I definitely park in the garage ... scraping windows is not fun  I also have a basement for storage so that helps  |
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Post by gar on Jun 5, 2020 20:43:52 GMT
Well I’m in the uk so you might not want to know 😉 but we have never parked in our garage. If it wasn’t full of crap (sorry, Dh’s treasures) we could just about for his car in but mine would be too wide. But we’ve never parked in a garage all our lives, don’t really see the point 😊
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Post by tracylynn on Jun 5, 2020 20:45:08 GMT
I've never lived somewhere with an attached garage until I bought my new house last Fall. I park in it every day. They say it's a double car garage, but it's not. Which is perfect for me. I have it lined with wire wrack shelves on both sides for storage, a freezer, etc. And my car fits perfectly between all that. It's nice and organized for the most part and I love it.
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Post by johnnysmom on Jun 5, 2020 20:46:01 GMT
We have 3 cars and only a one car garage which is at the back of our yard and totally inconvenient. So no, we don’t park in the garage. Our next house will have an attached garage with enough room for my car (to heck with the rest of them 😆).
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Post by GamGam on Jun 5, 2020 20:46:52 GMT
I park in the garage—-very carefully as we have 2 vehicles and as much other “stuff” as the garage will hold, and my allotted space is adequate but not expansive. Fortunately, my side mirrors retract by use of a button on the door.
And our HOA policy is to park in the garage.
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Post by freecharlie on Jun 5, 2020 20:47:47 GMT
I definitely park in there all winter long. Right now we are purging and organizing and the garage is being used as a staging area, but it would take less than 20 minutes to move stuff so I can park in there.
ETA: We have 4 vehicles, mine is the only one that parks in the garage. We do have a two car garage, but the other side is fullish.
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Post by katlady on Jun 5, 2020 20:47:56 GMT
We park our cars in the garage. We don't like our cars sitting out in the driveway overnight, and it is nice to be able to get into a car that is not too hot or too cold or too wet. My neighborhood is mixed.
Now, we do use part of our garage as a gym right now during Covid. We move the cars out, workout, then move the cars back in. Our equipment is easy to move aside. We do have a third stall that has shelving on the wall, so it is too small for a car. Maybe if we arrange some things on that side, we could have a more permanent gym.
ETA - I am in So. Cal. Winters are not hard, we get the occassional frost and all my friends will post the frost on their windows. It is a big event out here. LOL!
Our HOA allows parking in the driveway, but no overnight street parking. But there are communities around here that say you MUST park in the garage. You have to get a special exemption to park in your driveway. I think that is going a bit too far to not allow parking in your own driveway.
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Post by stingfan on Jun 5, 2020 20:49:39 GMT
Always have - whether living in AZ, MD, or WV.
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Post by jenjie on Jun 5, 2020 20:52:09 GMT
Well I’m in the uk so you might not want to know 😉 but we have never parked in our garage. If it wasn’t full of crap (sorry, Dh’s treasures) we could just about for his car in but mine would be too wide. But we’ve never parked in a garage all our lives, don’t really see the point 😊 Hah sorry I edited the OP! I really tried to get all the variables. |
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Post by Jessica on Jun 5, 2020 20:52:31 GMT
I park in the garage. Some of my neighbors do, some don't. I'm in Oregon.
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Post by rodeomom on Jun 5, 2020 20:54:33 GMT
Don't have a garage, have a carport and park in that. It's where my car lives.
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Post by epeanymous on Jun 5, 2020 20:55:06 GMT
I don't park in a garage and never have in my adult life. I'm on my third house that I've owned. The first one (in SC) didn't have a garage. The second one (here in Seattle) did have a garage, but it was in the backyard and down a slope (about fifty yards from the street), so we never used it as a garage. The current house (Seattle) again doesn't have a garage. I don't care about my cars at all -- they are just to get me from point A to point B and we keep them until they die -- so "no garage" is always a tradeoff I'm willing to make to have more house/better location/etc.
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Post by iluvpink on Jun 5, 2020 20:55:41 GMT
That was my thread and yes, we park in the garage. Well I do, dh doesn't right now as he has his fun summer car in there, not his Jeep. DD does't get a garage spot.
As I said in the other thread, we didn't used to park in our garage as our old house was tiny and no basement and we needed the garage for storage. And it was detached and also tiny. It didn't do much good.
Now we have a larger house with a basement and a larger attached garage. It's been two and a half years and I still get so excited pulling into my garage to park, especially in the winter. We are in MI and you can spend a good amount of time on winter mornings digging out and defrosting your car in the winter if you do not park in a garage. I spent almost twenty years doing that on winter mornings and I will never again live in a house in this state that doesn't have a garage. I'm too old and am not going to deal with that again!
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Post by freecharlie on Jun 5, 2020 20:55:49 GMT
Our HOA allows parking in the driveway, but no overnight street parking. But there are communities around here that say you MUST park in the garage. You have to get a special exemption to park in your driveway. I think that is going a bit too far to not allow parking in your own driveway. This is crazy. What if you have multiple cars/kids driving? |
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Post by summer on Jun 5, 2020 20:57:11 GMT
I have never parked my car in the garage. Most of my neighbors don’t park in their garage either. Most have 2 car garages. We use it as storage. Cars are parked in the driveway or street.
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Post by lesley on Jun 5, 2020 20:57:51 GMT
I don’t have a garage, and the access at the side of my house is too narrow for a car to get through. In my last house, we had a long narrow detached garage which could have held three cars. However, the back third was a rehearsal space for my DS, the middle third was XDH’s workspace and also where all the neighbourhood Mac computers came to die (don’t ask.) So only the front third was used for XDH's precious MX5.  And I had to come out and scrape my car every morning to take the kids to school. |
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Post by padresfan619 on Jun 5, 2020 21:01:36 GMT
We have a two car garage. We park one car in the garage. Our other car is too tall to fit inside the garage because of a roof rack. There’s still room for a second car inside the garage. I grew up with a packed full of garage, my parents still have it packed full of stuff. Every time I try to help clean it out my dad gets upset and we have to stop. I am not looking forward to the mountain of stuff I’ll have to sort through when they are gone.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Jun 5, 2020 21:01:38 GMT
Yes, we both park in the garage. We live in Eastern WA. No desire to clear snow or ice off of our windows. There is also room for shelves all the way around and a chest freezer is in there. We have a separate shop 24'x30' that the boat goes in during the winter and it's also dh's designated Man cave.
When we lived in San Diego we didn't have a garage, only a large shed that looked like a barn and it had a loft. At my Mom's in San Diego we never parked in the garage. The garage is used as storage and the laundry/hot water heater are in there too, so there is really no place to park a car, as it's a small one car garage. Her whole neighborhood is like that. The streets seem very crowded when we go to visit since most everyone parks on the street.
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Post by bc2ca on Jun 5, 2020 21:08:30 GMT
We have a three car garage and four vehicles in CA. Two are parked in the driveway and two on the street daily. We can fit three in the driveway for street sweeping, but don't park that way usually.
The garage is our only storage space and houses gardening and sports equipment, DH's extensive tool collection, pantry, extra fridge and holiday decor.
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Post by snugglebutter on Jun 5, 2020 21:10:21 GMT
We park in the driveway. The previous owner took out half of the garage to enlarge the living room. The other half has cabinetry built in that makes parking in it impossible.
It's not uncommon in our neighborhood - either to have it turned into more living space or just full of stuff. Our next door neighbors on one side have never parked in their garage in the 15 years we've lived here because they use it for storage. In the house on the other side the garage was turned into a large living room so they park in the driveway too.
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Post by pancakes on Jun 5, 2020 21:10:56 GMT
We park two of our cars in the garage and one on the street. I live in Chicago. I grew up parking our cars in the garage as well (grew up in Dallas/Fort Worth).
We have storage in the garage...but around our vehicles!
The elements really take a toll on your car...I never understood leaving your car out or always parking in the driveway when you have space in the garage.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jun 5, 2020 21:16:20 GMT
We're on a very large lot (4-1/4 acres) so the driveway meanders up to the house splitting off about halfway -- down slightly to a two car garage that sits under the house (with a generous 'apron' area in front of it) or up to two parking places at the end of the walkway to the front door. We have four vehicles so right now we park two up and two down... none in the garage.
We're still staging out of the garage thanks to moving in the first of the year. We plan to get enough cleaned out to get at least one car in there by winter. Although winter's are pretty mild here anyway.
Our previous house did not have a garage at all. We lived there eight years. But my house before that had a double garage. I parked in it alongside our golf cart. So I guess I've had it all sorts of ways. A garage isn't really a deal breaker for me in selecting a house. At least not in this climate. Oh, I'm in South Carolina by the way.
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Post by hop2 on Jun 5, 2020 21:16:57 GMT
I live in Canada ... it's cold here for most of the year so I definitely park in the garage ... scraping windows is not fun I also have a basement for storage so that helps Yeah, I do not like spending 15 extra minutes scraping & defrosting my car. I am lazy, I like to just get in my car & pretty much go. Plus in the summer with thunderstorms I also prefer my car in the garage so it doesn’t get hail or flying branch damage. |
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Post by Anita on Jun 5, 2020 21:17:08 GMT
We always park in the garage. Kind of a sticking point with me. Right now my oldest is staying with us while she works a local job, so also have a couple of cars in the driveway. We avoid street parking whenever possible.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Jun 5, 2020 21:17:22 GMT
My car is in the garage and so is my husband’s trailer. It’s a small trailer with his telescopes in it. The garage isn’t big enough for his truck.
It gets really hot so I’m happy to be able to keep it in the garage. We get s few frosts a year but not many.
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Post by huskermom98 on Jun 5, 2020 21:19:50 GMT
Our garage is a little bigger than a one-car garage and it's detached from the house. I used to park in it, but stopped when DS was born because it was already a tight fit and trying to get a car seat in was too much of a hassle. Then the garage slowly started filling up with kid stuff (and woodworking tools for DH). Now I'm not sure if my van would fit, even if the garage was empty. However, I have a remote start on my van so I'm OK keeping it outside.
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