I have a garage that is one part enclosed and the other half is a carport. I park under the carport. The enclosed half is used like a shed. Ive been cleaning it out lately.

It seems that very few park their car in the garage; even with double car garages, they're parked on the driveway. It's actually rare to see both vehicles in the garage. People use the garage for storage. Subdivisions are loaded with vehicles on the driveway and often one parked on the street. No street parking at all come December, so people will park it on the lawn.

When I did home sales, I'd always ask what colour the car was, because I'd often see it before the house number. Rarely did I get told that it would be in the garage.

Not gas being stolen here, but rampant thefts of catalytic converters. Even in garages and dealerships.

Me, I live in an apt bldg with a parking lot.

We've always maximized parking in the garage. Prior house, that mean space for four vehicles (2 and 2, so not convenient but do-able). This house, only one space -- so the car gets the garage, the truck parks in the driveway.

Our neighborhood was built mostly in the 1930s, '40s and '50s so the typical garage (like ours) is small and set behind the house. Most are more conducive to garden storage than to fitting a modern car. About half the houses driveways are only big enough for one car, so many people must park their second vehicle in the street.

Yes, parked inside the garage. The garage floor is heated. The cars are warm when you get into them. The parking spaces are wide....plenty of room between vehicles.

We always have ours in the garage, which is attached to house.

Attached two-car garage. We park our two vehicles in it. We also store our lawn mower/edger/trimmer/rakes, bicycles, and carwash equipment (buckets, powerwasher) in it.

It makes me twitchy to see all our neighbors' garages full of crap, with their cars parked on the street or in their very short driveways. Our houses all have attics AND basements. There's really no need to put everything in the garage.

As an adult, I've never lived in a house that had a garage, so no. Closest I've come to a garage is a carport.

What Uptown Gal said. Two cars, two-car garage, cars are always inside, and there's room for a shelving unit and the trash/recycling bins. We have sedans, not larger vehicles, so that helps with space.

We have a 3 cad garage and park two cars in the garage and one in the driveway. The third garage slot is filled with other stuff.

Always in the garage. Keeps it cleaner, and intact. And, I have no qualms about getting things in and out of them in the snow or rain or in my PJs.

Never. We have had up to four cars, all parked in our driveway.

When we first moved here a neighbor gave us good advice about the driveway. With 2 children being future drivers, wev would need a double driveway.

Fast forward and now if you have a single car garage, you can only have that size driveway.

DH has shelves with all his tools.

We actually used footage from the back of the garage and created an ensuite bathroom setup for our extra downstairs bedroom.

We have a double garage in our Floruda house and just park in the driveway there as well.

We have an oversized 2 car attached garage and keep our ONE sedan in it. We've had as many as four cars at once when we had only a normal 2-car garage. DS's beater was left on the driveway and my Healey was in a widower neighbor's otherwise vacant garage stall. Looking at old budgets, I wince at the money we spent on cars and the insurance for them. We sold a second car after DH retired. I was dusting it more often than it was driven -- saved a bundle on insurance.

I think in some places incentives are changing. The cost of replacing a stolen catalytic converter can be more than the cost of the junk stored in the garage.

After my first apartment, I have always had a carport or garage at an apartment, condo, townhouse, and house. Carport, at least, keeps the snow and ice off the car, and the sun/heat besides. And it usually is assigned, so there is no doubt whoever is nosing about the car doesn’t belong there.

We don't have room in the 24' x 24' garage. My husband keeps his clunkers in there he never works on, along with all his tools. I park on the street.

In my next incarnation (pun intended), I would like to return as my husband's car. There is never a night outside, and we are talking 60 years worth of cars.

NO. and the paint on my car shows it. It looks terrible.

Yes, we always have. As mentioned, it’s cleaner and safer. Catalytic converters are being stolen right and left here, not that it doesn’t happen in a parking lot somewhere during the day.

Yes, I always have. It's been a lifelong practice. Mostly to keep them clean and for convenience. Security has never been an issue of a concern.

In Cathedral City, we have a two-car garage, and so we can both park in the garage and then enter the house from there. The point is to keep the vehicles out of the heat - it is never cold there. Everyone there uses their garage because no one wants to get into a searing hot car, although in the winter, the weather is mild and pleasant.

In Los Angeles, our garage is used for storage - mostly tools, many of them for gardening, and we have an extra refrigerator there as well. We have our bikes hanging from rafters, and we have excess paintings hanging on the garage walls and stacked against one of the walls. Kevin parks his pickup in the driveway, and I park my small car on the street. Security is not a concern for either of our houses.

We have a 2-car garage and 2 cars are parked in it. When we acquired the MX-5 DH bought a cover for it so it is usually parked outside. Occasionally it is inside, especially when we are getting ready to use it for a few days and his truck gets moved outside. We do rotate driving all 3 fairly often.

I find it interesting that some people think they're immune from crime because of where they live. That is a very false sense of security! It doesn't matter where you live, crime can still find you.

Yes, for safety's sake for me and for my SUV since I live alone.

"I find it interesting that some people think they're immune from crime because of where they live."

If this refers to me, I didn't say I was immune. I said it wasn't a concern. I've spent the past 30 years in a neighborhood with security measures in place and a homeowners association that sends out a quarterly newsletter. I can't remember the last time there was a burglary reported, perhaps not in the last 5 years. The rare incidents with a parked car, often just a few each year, usually involve vandalism and often suggest youths to be responsible.

This is why I said that security is not a concern. Should I believe otherwise?

Yes, only have one car but when my kids have left their vehicles in my driveway no one has bothered them. A garage was one of the things on my home list when I bought my house. I didn't want to have to de-ice and de-snow my car in the winter. Less of an issue now that I work from home.

Yes, always. Three car garage, 3 vehicles.

Yes, since we have lived in CA for the last 45 years. Not so much for security reasons but to protect the paint job and keep them clean. It also keeps the car cool. We have a 2 car garage with an attached add on that we built. It is the size of a 2 car garage, but it is a wookshop with a 1 car stall. DH wanted it to work on the old cars he had collected. All gone now except for the restored 1955 Chevy truck, which is kept there. Never used garages as added storage.

We always park the cars in the garages. Mine was built extra large to have room for a workshop with a spare refrigerator. Sometimes when I need more space with my home projects the cars are parked in front of it for a few days, and they’re 50’ away from the street behind the house gates so there is not much of security concerns. People in my neighborhood do not park cars along the streets. In good weather, people are outside pushing baby strollers, walking with their dogs, and jogging.

Home security is not a big concern for me either. I live in a area with a very low rate of crime. Also, I live in a very private neighborhood on a private road that is the culmination of another private road :-)) No one is out and about after dark that doesn't have a reason to be there. Street lights in this semi-rural area are rare and it is black-hole-of-Calcutta dark at night so we have motion detector lights in various places around the house to light the way and discourage any potential trespassers!

I lived in the gated community. Upscale. Bad guys still got in, and crashed into our cars. Other people who lived there, had bodyguards, and it still happened.

No elmer I wasn't just talking to you. Not even just on this thread, you're not the only one.

Crime can affect you regardless of where you live. Don't let your guard down people.

Sure, there's less chance in some places than others, but you don't live in a bubble. Heck, I even lived in a bubble, and we were still affected.

Yes, always. Two cars in a 2 car garage. We have nice cars and prefer to keep them protected from the weather.

I always park inside, DH does not.

Our two car garage has two auto car doors, and is separated down the middle with a floor to ceiling wall of cabinets and shelves. There is man door inside to access either side.

I became keeper of the painting supplies, some gardening things (don't touch or move my felcos), the Costco overflow.

His side (heated, mine is not) is loaded with spare frig, a work bench, and all his clutter. His folding table and electric skillets for his clam frying. Since Covid, also a bar - and he entertains there (chairs, bistro tables). Lots of heavier gardening things that are not gas powered, those are in the garden building not connected to the house - garage is attached. His bicycle, couple of hand trucks, stacks of clean worn towels for his car washing and projects, many buckets.

I don't know if his truck would fit even if his half was cleaned and empty, I've never seen him try. It's parked directly in front of his bay but outside and under a spot light. No one has ever touched it. Parking isn't an issue, we have a circular drive that could fit many cars.

Yup......nothing to do with crime, but it's because that's where my charger is. I might park it in the driveway for a short period during the day, but put it in the garage and plug it in each night.

I do, except for the last month and probably at least three more weeks, maybe a little more due to some renovations. My husband's side of the garage is filled with stuff-junk that I would throw out but he is a hoarder, so... he parks in the driveway. He also has a work area at the back of the garage that has stuff we just couldn't possibly get rid of! I have a corner on my side for gardening supplies. Sheesh.

I keep mine in the garage for the same reasons as Uptown Gal. It stays cleaner, no snow to clean off in winter, warmer, and the driveway is clearer.

I am so sorry for your neighbor! What a rotten thing to have happen.

no garage

My truck doesn't fit in our garage. It's parked in the driveway. It has an alarm system, which is pretty sensitive (kids kickball hit the side and the alarm went off and DON'T try opening a door without disarming.) The alarm would wake the dead. And it's horribly loud and annoying and because of a previous electrical issue I haven't gotten fixed, I have to put the key in the ignition to turn the alarm off. So, DON'T Touch MY truck!

I have two cars and they’re both in the 2- car garage. Weather isn’t really an issue here, but there is a lot of petty crime and vehicles are common targets.

I have two vehicles and one garage--actually a carport alongside an outbuilding. So the older one is always out in the open. My concerns are not theft or vandalism, but sunlight and trees--sunlight because of its effect on a car's paint, and trees because no matter where I park the car, leaves blow onto it and collect in the well by the windshield wipers. At one point they clogged up the A/C system.

Absolutely! cooler in summer, warmer in winter!

after having to replace the wiring in my car at least 4 times because, apparently, squirrels LOVE to eat it, i bought a garage and i use it!

Not in the garage. It's not in the best shape anymore. But sometimes in the pole barn. During the winter when we get snows the car gets put inside so the drives can get cleared. Otherwise our house is pretty far off the road and with the trees you usually can't see the car parked up by the house. The truck lives in the barn out back when it's not in use.

When I had a garage, I always parked inside it. This house doesn't have one. Someday I will put up a carport to protect it from falling acorns and weather.

I live in a small house on a small lot with a small attached carport and small driveway. I park my car in the carport to protect it from the sun but mainly to keep it from blocking my view from my front window. I'd rather look at trees, flowers, and pedestrians than an (ugly) car in my driveway.

I have room for my car in the garage. The other side is for all the yard equipment and other cumbersome items that I don't want in the house. My housemate parks on the driveway. I don't live in a climate that's exceedingly cold so I don t have snow/ice to worry about. I have security cameras, as do all my neighbors. So far, so good.

I park my car in the garage. In the winter it is difficult for me to clean off the snow if there's a lot. Also, it doesn't get hot inside during the summer.

All 4 cars are parked outside on our property. We are on 10 acres and have a long driveway. It’s pretty safe here.

When I first bought my house I did park my one car and my one bike in my one car garage - but I was so busy with work, housework, and child rearing that I didn't do much more to the yard than keep it within reason, so I didn't have many yard tools beyond a mower, snow shovel, rake, and a hedge trimmer. But, over the years I have accumulated things like ladders, shelving for hand tools, shovels, flower pots, fertilizers, hoses, stakes, yard cart, more bikes.... patio chairs and two potted fig trees that overwinter in there. So, now the car is never in the garage and hasn't been for decades.

We have had a problem with cars being rifled through regularly for years. The entire neighborhood was built with only one car garages, but most homes have at least 2 cars. The solution for me is to never ever ever leave anything, not even a couple of quarters, in the car, even though it is locked. We have had a few catalytic converter thefts in the neighborhood too, but since the police busted up 2 large theft rings, I haven't heard of another incident. I am sure that it is only a matter of time, though.

Yesterday around noon after we just left the house, a stranger drove a white Lexus ct 200h past our gates looping around slowly on our private circular driveway which is far from the street. None of our friends own that car. If it was a U turn, there is plenty room in front of the gates near the street, there is no need to drive into our property. Some strager people.

“If it was a U turn, there is plenty room in front of the gates near the street, there is no need to drive into our property.”

We went through something very similar. A guy in a pickup truck would use our circular driveway instead of making a U turn. He would just cruise through the driveway like he lived here. Our house is also set back from the street, so using our driveway was pretty invasive no matter what. I finally got a license number and it stopped after I contacted the police. NO, absolutely no reason to drive through private property!

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