I live in a single family home and have a two-car garage, but I don’t park in it. It’s detached and set back from the house. But mostly I can’t install an automatic garage door opener in it easily. The house was built in 1936 and the current very heavy garage door is a royal pain to open. I had a guy come out and look and he pointed out the structural features that would make installing an automatic opener problematic. Not saying it’s impossible, but I’m renting, so not interested in rebuilding the garage. Anyway, my driveway is long and when I pull the car all the way up TO the garage, it’s waaaay off the street. Although I’m not fond of the corrosive properties of bird poop, I think there’s something to be said for having a car in the driveway indicating that someone is at home.
Driveway, no garage. When we moved in to this house, we graduated from street parking to a driveway. There was a garage in the backyard, but it dated to the 30s, didn’t fit a modern large car, and was in danger of collapse. The back wall did actually collapse, killing a raccoon in the process. After removing a fully rigormortised raccoon with a shovel, we had the garage torn down and the concrete floor that remained torn up and replaced with topsoil and sod.
The remaining portion of the driveway is long enough to park 4-5 cars, but we only have 2.
I don’t have a car to park but I’ve got a massive underground parking garage in my high rise apartment building. We’ve got a ridiculous amount of parking because of whiny NIMBYs
We have a “two car garage”, but I don’t think we could comfortably fit both cars in it even if it were completely empty. As it is, we can’t fit any cars in it; we both park in the driveway (and our son parks his car on the street in front of the house).
A lot of us in northern climes plug in our cars in winter, but it’s not because they’re electric vehicles–we’re plugging in the block heater for easier starts on cold winter mornings. If a house doesn’t have a handy outlet to the expected parking spot, maybe it’s time to look at another house.
Have a garage, but I park in the driveway (behind an automated gate)
My garage is at an awkward angle and very narrow, so we have a paved driveway.
We’re mountaineers now. A ratty dirt+gravel track under dense conifers drops past the dirt+gravel drive forking along our modular home’s nearest sides. We park the small RV near the front door and the crossover near the back steps. We have no garage. We may add a lean-to snow cover for the RV out back.
A side dirt+gravel drive up an adjacent slope reaches a shed-roof built to cover a long-gone travel trailer. When we also had a leaky old SUV, it lived under that shelter. We’re open-air here - no garage for a bear to break into.
Starting out, our suburban house’s attached garage, our only garage in 40 years, we filled with everything but a vehicle, so we driveway-parked. Another house in a steep mining town had no parking but the paved civic lot was only 100 feet away. A country-ish hilltop house was edged by open pavement with space for over a dozen vans; we offered neighbors overflow parking for their party-goers so we were invited too. 
I PREDICT: When autonomous vehicles are mandatory and ubiquitous, private cars will be replaced by robo-taxis and garages will be converted into rentals to meet the affordable-housing crisis. Rent driveways to tenters, too.
Fortunately, the insulated (though not heated) attached garage eliminates that need…at least over night.
I wanted a conservative estimate.
Yeah. That demonstrates that if there’s demand for a power outlet, they can be made available.
I have a detached two car garage but I park in the driveway. I have several motorcycles that take up the space behind the two garage doors and the rest is dedicated to storage and my “wood shop”. It will someday be a real wood shop once I am done remodeling my house. Construction materials, sawhorses, saws, etc take up the space now, but not in a wood shop setup.
My truck won’t fit in my garage so I park in the driveway.
Now I park in a space I own under my condo. Before I moved I parked from Nov through mid-April in my partly heated garage and in the driveway the rest of the year.
Covered reserved parking, thank God. It sucks running from the car to the door in our frequently wet weather. Not having to park out in 40 acre field, because you came in late, is great too.
I don’t know you people who have to park on the street manage it. I don’t even like doing it when I visit somewhere.
Surface lot at apartment building, free-for-all. But there are sufficiently more spaces than cars that finding a spot near my building is never a problem. The management company has a list of everybody’s cars and plate numbers who’s allowed to park here and so you could theoretically get towed if you’re not a resident, but I’ve never seen it happen in 5 years of living here.
98% of the time, it’s fine. When it snows more than a couple of inches, which it does a handful of times a year (and occasionally real doozies like 2+ feet), then I wish we had covered parking. They plow the lot but everybody is responsible for digging out their own car. If it’s a really big storm, sometimes they’ll get out the front end loader to help move more piles of snow, but usually not. Shovel shovel shovel.
Still less work than a driveway, though.
We lived on a small street that was relatively quiet and it was a pain, more so after our 1st kid was born. On top of that, we lived on a hill and it was about 18 steps up from the sidewalk to the front door. Having to schlep bags and a baby is one of the reasons we moved.
Attached garage, single family home. Only a one car garage, which is fine since I have only one car. Driveway is barely two car lengths long, 1.5 cars wide. When my daughter visits, they park half on the driveway / half in the yard. No on street overnight parking allowed, and parking only on one side of the street.
I used to park half the time in the driveway, but we’ve had a huge uptick in car break-ins over the past year, so the car goes in the garage every night.
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’?
Garage always. I have an F-150, Focus ST, Honda Shadow motorcycle, 2 bikes, and 2 kayaks in my garage. Things last so much better when they aren’t in the sun/weather. Plus it’s so nice not having to scrape ice off windshields or clear snow off of cars.
In my old home I had a driveway installed where there had been none so it was not perfect (my SUV could only pull up so far into it) but it was better than continuing to deal with fighting for street parking. I have since gotten rid of that car and moved to a more urban area and have been without a car for over a year so that is what I voted.
Wow, all together parking inside a garage of some type is about 50%, would have guessed about 25% or less.