Where do you park at home?

Garage? Attached or detached?
Carport?
Driveway?
Parking pad?
Parking lot?
Assigned/owned parking space?
Street parking? Permit or free-for-all?
Something else?

Garage, always. If there’s too much stuff in my garage to park in it, I have too much stuff.

We have a detached garage, behind the house, which opens into the alley. It’s a two-car garage, and, unlike many of our neighbors (whose garages seem to be packed full of other stuff), we are able to park both of our cars in the garage.

However, we’re inheriting a car – my father-in-law passed away in October, and my wife is inheriting his 2015 Corvette. Said Corvette will be living in the garage once we take possession of it, and my wife’s other car (a Mazda CX-7) will be parked on the street in front of the house.

We park in the driveway. We have a garage, but the landlord uses it for storage, so we don’t have access to it.

1 car and 3 motorcycles in the garage, 2 cars and 2 trucks in the driveway. Geek Child #1 has a project car and 1 motorcycle in the garage, and 2 motorcycles and a scooter in the breezeway. Geek Child #2 has 2 cars in the driveway. Geek Child #3 has 1 car in the driveway and his gf (who lives with us) also has 1 car in the driveway.

Getting everything to fit is… challenging.

There is no street parking.

I’ve got parking pad. I’m on a triangular corner lot so it was probably the most practical use of that corner, although the topography is sort of weird so while it could probably park 4 cars, one side is so steep that it’s really not practical to park anything other than a monster truck there. We only have 2 cars anyways. Unfortunately one of them is not a monster truck. :wink:

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Detached garage and maintenance shop built for the car.

Our garage is full, but that’s because it’s too small to park a van in. I think it was built in the twenties and maybe not originally meant for a car. I usually park at the curb in front.

Detached garage for my car and my wife’s. My son parks in an apron area on the driveway (driveway sort of wraps around the side of the house). Tromping out to the garage in the snow isn’t a ton of fun but at least the cars are clean and dry.

You don’t have an option for “Garage, but only if it’s below zero (= below 32°F), because the garage is a separate building off a narrow lane which requires a lot of back-and-forthing to align with the manual one-car door with an actual, literal key and so is a pain to use, so mostly we park on the street (permit).”

But I’d probably be the only vote for that option, anyway.

Two cars in the attached garage. One motorcycle in the backyard shed. One pickup on a pad beside the garage. I was determined when we bought this place that I’d park in the garage, and except for a few times when the garage was full of building materials, my car has resided therein.

We park in the front garage attached to the house. I have a double detached garage that faces the back alley in our residential neighbourhood. I park my “hobby car” there along with all the tools, lawn mower, snow blower, patio furniture in the winter and most of the “stuff”. This also alleviates the need for a separate shed for all the extra stuff.

No garage. I park in the driveway.

And drive on the parkway.

I think we’d need pictures to envious that awful set up. :eek:

So, that’s you AND George Carlin. :smiley:

Garage, along with a motorcycle and garden equipment. It’s tight, but workable.

I picked garage, attached (I’ve always called it an integral garage, same thing, right?) which is where we keep our daily drivers. My gf’s “farm truck” is in the driveway pad area by our kayak trailer. My utility trailer is down by the barn. I park my pontoon boat on its trailer at work.

Attached garage, but we park in the driveway. Where I live I don’t have to worry about the snow and the cold.
Yes I have way too much stuff.

New York City (I know, crazy to even HAVE a car here), so it’s free-for-all on the street. And then you have to add the infamous ASP (Alternate Side of the Street Parking). This means that on at least one day a week (in some neighborhoods, two days a week), there is a 90-minute period when nobody is allowed to park on a specific side of the street so the street sweepers can go by. This leads to a highly-choreographed ballet of people double-parking on the permitted side to keep the no-parking side free. In some neighborhoods the convention is to leave a sign on your dashboard, so that people can call you or ring your bell to get you to come move your car so they can leave. In other neighborhoods, nobody leaves a sign, so the (unwritten) rule is that if you’re blocked in, you’re just plain out of luck. You wait.

Or in other areas, the convention is that you sit in your car on the no-parking side, then when the street sweeper comes you quickly get out of the way to let it pass, then quickly move back to where you were. And sometimes another car slides up right behind the sweeper and steals the space you were sitting in for an hour before you can move back into it. This leads to shouting. Sometimes shoving. Maybe worse. Neighbors get involved.

I’ve heard rumors that there are some blocks where doormen handle all the moving of cars for tips. I don’t live on that kind of block.

My own situation is that near my home, most of the blocks are no parking on one side from 11:30-1 on Mondays, and 11:30-1 on Thursdays. And it’s a double-parking neighborhood with no dashboard signs. Near my work, some of the blocks are no parking on one side 8-9:30 on Mondays and Thursdays, and no parking on the other side from 8-9:30 on Tuesdays and Fridays. Other adjacent blocks are 9-10:30 on those days. And it’s a “sit in your car and wait for the sweeper neighborhood.” I usually take the subway to work, but if my car is parked on the wrong side at home, I have to drive it in. Then I can sit in the car from 8-9:30, or 9-10:30. Depending.

Like I said, it’s crazy to own a car in NYC! But on the plus side, New Yorkers who drive get to be aware of holidays like Shavuot, Eid al-Fitr, and the Feast of the Assumption, no matter what their own religion might be, just because ASP is suspended on those days. :slight_smile:

Driveway. I would like a garage because of the weather we get, but our 2acres is so steep it would cost a small fortune to build one (the design in my head is two stories, access from the lower driveway and upper driveway). It works for us, same house for 27 years.