# Where do you park at home? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275 "2019-12-02T16:39:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275/61 "2019-12-04T17:10:55Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Wow, all together parking inside a garage of some type is about 50%, would have guessed about 25% or less. I would have guessed 60-70%. People with space are more likely to own cars. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275/62 "2019-12-04T17:37:01Z")
I have a four-plex with an eight-space parking lot. The lot is reserved for residents (two spots each), but individual spots aren’t assigned. It still trips me out that I own a parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275/63 "2019-12-05T00:45:56Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > While dealing with ice and snow. That doesn’t sound pleasant at all. At least it’s flat here. > > Quiet streets like you describe, if they allow parking on both sides, can be absolutely nerve racking to drive through. It seemed like Berkeley, CA was infested with the things, usually with hills to boot, and nobody had any clue about who was supposed to yield. Lots of fun! > > Did you guys ever do the PA, ‘stick a lawn chair in the shovelled out street parking space’? That would be frowned upon in Polite Toronto, first come first served. The problem was that if you parked nose into a snow bank heading downhill (parking was on that side only) with a front wheel drive car you had a good chance of getting stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275/64 "2019-12-06T01:55:55Z")
Helidrome. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275/65 "2019-12-08T00:07:07Z")
Apartment surface lot, 90% free-for-all spaces but permit parking only. We have a car port, but it is taken with 3 bicycles,and we can’t afford rent on a garage. I guess as winter gets nasty, we’ll decide if our budget can be re-prioritized. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275/66 "2019-12-08T01:12:57Z")
My wife parks in the garage, I park on the grass strip next to the driveway. She leaves for work before I do. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275/67 "2019-12-08T01:43:22Z")
We have room for one car and Ms. P and my motorcycles. The car that our son drives when he’s home from college and I drive when it’s raining or too icy for me to ride a motorcycle is parked on the street. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275/68 "2019-12-08T02:47:28Z")
Workshop is in the garage, so the car goes on the street, until the nasty hail I’ve been warned about arrives. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-park-at-home/844275.md?page=3)