Why do most people park their cars outside? I'm not a

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Why do most people drive their cars outside?

I'm not a car collector yet, but if I had my own collection I would just sit and stare at it every day. If you give a damn about your car, you wouldn’t be driving it too. Outdoor parked cars get fucked by intense hot or cold weather, direct sunlight for hours on end, rain, dirt in the wind, and perhaps other conditions that aren't immediately coming to me.

>b-b-but my garage is full of junk!

Haul that shit to the dump, there's no excuse.

Because Americans are hoarding consumers but basements are too expensive for them, so they pile up all their junk in the garage instead.

Because my garage is full of motorcycles.

>>13817339
The car collection in OP alone is worth more than anything you ever had, I doubt it'd be very hard to get a basement

The real answer is laziness, murrikans are fucking lazy, it takes 2 minutes from my apartment to my garage yet I never leave the car outside

>>13817305
My garage has my washer, dryer, scooter, tools, lawn care stuff, shit left over from moving, etc.

It's quite a mess. It's also small. I wish my garage was bigger so I could park my car in it. My friend's parents have a house with a 6-car garage. It's awesome.

>>13817330
Retarded analogy. The literal point of a garage is to keep you car away from the weather when you're not driving it. Cars are meant to be driven, yes, but cars aren't meant to park out in the rain if you can help it.

>>13817374
>I drive my cars daily
>as long as it's not raining, drizzling, cloudy, windy, hailing, cold, snowing, sleeting, icey, or my homework isn't done

>>13817305
>>13817330
my garage(spare room) is full of car parts, cause i'd drive anycar anyday. there is no excuse not to drive it. you'd be the person who clips a brid of preys wings so it couldn't hunt but look pretty, the person that'd lock away beautiful art so it could gain value instead of influence people. just remembering the hunter s thompson quote about ariving in the afterlife covered in scars to show you actually lived yourlife instead of perfection showing that you did nothing but only think of yourself

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how did that superleggera get to where it is. even with the front axle lift it would've high sided itself

>>13817410
>I like rust so much I leave my car in the rain even if there's a much, much better choice.

>>13817436
I think the angle of the driveway isn't severe as it appears because the photo was taken 'head-on'.

>>13817445
>I can't maintain shit

>>13817459
Why would you want to maintain something you can prevent by parking you car in a garage? Also, especially if the weather is shit, it'd be much better to not leave the house to get into your car. I can't even comprehend how retarded you sound right now.

>>13817339
>HURRRDUDDRRR AMERICANS

Kill yourself

>>13817467
Because I'd rather drive.

>>13817436

It was lowered in with a crane. It never leaves that space, it's just an ornament to let others know how much money they have.

>>13817468

In all fairness, Americans do have a bad habit of over-extending their finances and hoarding lots of useless shit.

>>13817470
Yes, go and drive 24 hours a day.

The garage is the workshop. Basement would be a terrible workshop.

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>>13817470

>I'd rather have niggers steal/vandalize my shit by leaving it parked outside

FTFY

>>13817468
In my basement maybe? :^)

>>13817488

>have double garage
>turn one side into permanent workshop
>turn other side into vehicle parking

>eventually other side just becomes parking for Kubota RTV and lots of crap I don't use
>two car garage
>cars sit outside all year

>>13817489
>living in an area with nigger, spics, or slavs/wiggers

>>13817489
>Living near niggers

>>13817539

I'm Canadian, and I don't. But Americans do. They're unavoidable. Your country is plagued by them and their vices.

>>13817543

see above

>>13817539
>>13817543
>niggers steal everything there is to steal in detroit
>run to SoCal and rob your sheltered ass of your car because you're too much of a fat fuck to clean the garage

Lel can't wait

>>13817528
Why can't anyone ever build a garage deep enough to fit workbench space behind the car(s)? All you need an extra eight feet. Instead you always have to sacrifice an entire bay.

>>13817573
builders build spec houses to suit the most common home buyer. the most common buyer either uses their garage to store their cars, or to store all of their junk. the average new home buyer doesn't work on their own cars plus concrete is expensive

>>13817573
Because thinking is not a thing many people do.

americans need to stop living in fucking houses with attached garages anyway. what the fuck

what's wrong with having a craftsman style cottage and a single car wide driveway that runs alongside that leads to a 2 car garage that's in the backyard

or bungalow rather

>>13817581

This. Lots are getting smaller all the time, so having a garage that can BARELY fit a compact car is considered an "extra". I worked on some town homes this past summer, they were pathetic. People who owned vans, or anything bigger than a Ford Escape, couldn't park in the garage. One lady had a Chevy Tagoe, but she told us she had to trade it in because it wouldn't fit in the garage. She bought a Trax instead. Kek. Should've seen her trying to get out of it, the doors barely opened enough to squeeze out.

And they were selling these shitholes for $440,000.

>>13817620
town homes are such a scam. why would anyone buy one. it's not like they're built like old brownstones where there's a solid masonry firebreak between each home

>>13817608

Americans like big and flashy. House needs to be over sized and ostentatious. Properties aren't large enough to have a layout other than an attached garage.

>>13817628
they can't even afford a house nowadays because their tastes are soo unrealistic and the way the market has shifted just can't suit building tons of tract homes like previous decades unless you want to live in some medium sized city with nothing to do but furnish your monument of debt

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>>13817620

Tahoe, derp

>>13817627

They were almost all purchased by rich asian immigrants, half of them are being used as "investment properties". Some of them were pre-sold 2 years ago, and 6 months before the home closed they would sell it to someone else. Since real estate prices have been climbing so much in the area, these people made $100,000 without doing a thing. They didn't even take possession of the house, didn't have to pay property taxes, etc.

Lots of urbanite yuppies buy them too, it means they're close to the city but they don't have to worry about maintaining a property. No lawns to cut, leaves to rake, etc. Just a place to eat, sleep, and showcase your entry-level import "luxury" car.

If I never see another 3 series or A4 I will die happy.

>>13817648
that's another problem, americans have been indoctrinated to believe their house is an investment, rather than being a home to live in

>>13817659

The only way it functions as a feasible investment is if you sell it before you even move in, or if you sit on it for 70 years and watch property values increase exponentially. But who the fuck can/will do that?

Rich Chinese are buying up shittons of property all over Canada, especially Vancouver. They're using it them as staging points for their intelligence operations and economic warfare campaign.

And our government does nothing.

>>13817676
they unrealistically optimistic about property values going on dramatically, which happens in cities that are desirable and not really adding more housing stock except for the wealthy because developers are the same way now, profits above all else. north american society has become unsustainably greedy as fuck and people wonder why we're constantly in bubbles

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>seeing property as an investment in a country where zoning can be cut out of the wilderness for centuries to come, and where people move with the jobs and entire regions can rise and fall within a few decades

>>13817608
Go to any neighborhood from the 50's and that's exactly what you'll see
And they're not large properties.

>>13817719
that's how all of america's new neighborhoods should be built. not like denver's stapleton where houses are 2 feet apart from each other where you get no yard whatsoever except for patches of grass and alley streets where all of the garages are. houses are just too fucking big and you gain nothing from having big ass houses but more space to heat/cool clean furnish etc

>>13817731
Water.
With the rate the Denver area is growing we don't usually have enough water to comfortably use it anymore.
So people don't get yards.
It was never like this when I was a kid.
Now there's nothing but town homes and apartment buildings going up and it's ridiculous. Parker and out by the airport and fucking shit holes.
Thanks Obama.

>have a 2 bay wide, 2 car deep garage with a shop in the rear full of farm equipment
>have a 1 bay wide 2 car deep garage with a loft full of dirtbikes, quads, motorcycles and parts for the project truck
>have a rented 3 bay garage full of more quads, dirtbikes and boats
>park my 3 cars outside
where am i supposed to keep my toys if i park in the garage?

>>13817745
well the yards can be replaced with german style landscape gardens. i wish i could find a pic but it's basically all mulch with a bunch of ornamental shrubs with paving walking stones

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>>13817754
kind of like this

>>13817305
Most older homes only come with a one car garage, because there was only the family car.

So therefore the wife gets the garage and the husband has to park outside.

My sister just had a new house built. Two car garage, but that is just it. Two cars, not SUVs/CUVs and trucks.

My sister's crossover goes in the garage, my brother in laws work truck and personal truck sit outside in the yard.

In the south, I'm willing to bet a majority of people don't even have garages. We don't have to worry about snow accumulating on the top of our vehicle or the cold.

>>13817305

i can't speak for the rest of the world, but in england a garage is meant for something like a ford anglia. you might be able to fit a modern car in one but you wouldn't be able to open the door. a 90s ford escort is about the limit, if you park all the way over on the passenger side and don't mind squeezing your way out.

>>13817305
> Garage full of expensive stuff I need
> Car is meant to survive outside
> Garage is too small for the car anyway
> Two cars, one-car-width driveway

>>13817843
german garages too, that's why i can't understand how the 5 series went from something perfectly sized like the e39 to the current land barges

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>>13817754
I never thought I'd see the day when an American would praise foreign front lawns because it seems that usually Americans are obsessed with their style of yards which to me always had far too much of a golf course flair. Just acres of flat lawn.

>>13817860
it doesn't make sense in every region in america, in the southeast or northeast they're fine because there's water everywhere

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>>13817853
>mfw Germany and and needed an outside navigator to squeeze a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter down my driveway between the house and the fence, meanwhile Americans buy full size trucks with wide tires and they will still look tiny in their driveways

>>13817872
But they will still look like golf courses.

>>13817914
yeah they kind of look shit, needs more privacy hedges

>>13817909
replace fence with a hedge

>>13817950
Can't for two reasons. It would put the hedge on the next property, and I'm a renter.

>>13817952
you'll master parking it eventually or be more dutch and just scrape the van up until you don't care anymore

>>13817339
Every single house I've ever been in (besides the ones near the ocean) have had basements or cellars.

>Own nice car
>Keep it in my garage.
>Own old truck.
>Sometimes park it outside.

Eh.

>>13817977
Basements are regional things. Based on the soil and the topography of the land, houses in certain regions will either predominantly have basements or have seemingly no basements. And people who don't make as much can't afford basements anyways.

>>13818003
they're everywhere in colorado which makes me wonder why the hell can't they put parking underground and get rid of fucking parking lots that waste valuable real estate that could be turned into more affordable apartment housing like everything off colorado blvd

>>13818034
That would be unaffordable communism though. Better spread out our developments, it's the true spirit of freedom.

I rent a room with my landlord and another roommate. Landlord is a hoarder or extremely lazy to get rid of anything. Entire garage is filled, side of his house is a junk pile of what previous renters left behind. Pretty nasty, I hope I don't live here much longer but it's cheaper than an apparent.

>>13818048
developers would earn more profits, leasing out retail space and a bunch of condo like places to rent out. but the way they do shit there is too texan or californian. it's sad that atlanta is more progressive with their urbanism like edgewood retail district in little five points or the one off howell mill rd and 75. they even have a kroger with a fucking parking lot on top of the store off atlanta rd and n church lane. it's not like land is expensive as fuck in georgia either

>>13817754
>have to trim bushes yearly
>new mulch every year
>pull weeds
>blow/rake leaves out from under bushes in the fall
>hard to reclaim if you let it go for a year or 2

My company does landscaping for a few people who have these. They are a pain in the ass to keep looking well. Meanwhile any homeowner with a kid 10 or older and some fertlizer can have a good looking yard.

If you want low maintenance I would go with this

>grass around outside of property
>evergreen trees outside of the beds
>properly installed gravel beds around the house with hard edging
>ground cover where you want green, but not grass

You have some mowing to do, but no weeds, no leaves, no mulching, and a little trimming of the evergreens.

>>13818157
landscaping is like a major hobby for germans. in the evenings they're all outside sweeping their driveways or doing something to their gardens

>>13818157
What exactly is ground cover?

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>>13817305
Not to join the hurr-durr-'murrica crowd, but I'm German, and people do NOT park their cars outside here unless it's a single-car garage and they have more than one car. That said, my truck doesn't fit into my garage and there's two motorcycles in there anyway, so yeah...

>>13818247

We don't call this a "truck" you silly kraut.

You're in Europe. It's a pickup. Let the american names for the americans. Or you want to be thought of as stupid as them?

Honestly, sometimes pulling the car out of the garage every morning can get really tiring especially if its cramped

>>13818261
>blah blah blah Americans are stupid blah
I'm going to call it a ute next time, just to fuck with you

>>13817305
Maybe some people:
A) own a shitbox so they don't care
B) have enough money to not care
C) don't care about cars so they don't care
D) and some people have the audacity to have a shop in their garage.

So pick one and fuck off.

>>13818315

I'm going to call you Faggot just because it's your name.

>>13817860
Even more annoying when some old boomer faggot buys acreage in the country for retirement and tries to do the same thing destroying the ecosystem. Thanks a lot fuckhead.

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>>13817305
I have an oversized 2.5+1.5 car garage (dividing wall because old homeowner was a body man and used it as a paint booth) and always park in it... Except when I'm 16 hours into a job where some disassembly is required (ie. Replacing full suspension and stripping the interior. Currently, my Fury is outside because the Datsun has no glass in it and I don't trust the cover. My fiance parks her Wrangler on the back pad if the garage is full.

Pic related, its 1/3 of my garage.

>>13818334
E) Want everyone in the neighborhood to see their LAMBERGEENIE because they're a kek

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>>13818368
Pic related as well, where the fury sits now. The 3/4 ton wont fit in the garage at all (CC longbed)

Because garages in new development are tiny as fuck, gramps could barely fit a 2000 Altima in his. Not to mention they stick the washer dryer in there too.

>>13818380
that's how american neighborhoods should look, except more colorful paint schemes and landscaping that adds some colors and hides shit like the a/c units. that dirt tire path driveway is awful though

>>13818512
That's the neighbor. It's got a very small (650sq ft) house you cannot see. I'm full poured concrete. And my house is a deep blue gray, small house is yellow, other side is red.

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>>13818558
carriage houses are still weird to me

because my garage already has cars in it.

>>13817330
typical americunt response.

my cars too much of a shitbox to take effort.

if it was something else then i probably would unless it's too noisy to open garage (it's pretty loud).

>>13818512
go back to mexico please.