On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 3:30:27 PM UTC-4, Jim Joyce wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:42:16 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Monday, March 22, 2021 at 9:16:46 PM UTC-4, Jim Joyce wrote:
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:32:42 -0400, micky wrote:


I know of one n'hood, and it's probably not uncommon, where the garage
door cannot face the street. That's probably a good idea, because you
only have to do it once, when you build the house. And it does't take
much extra space to put one 90^ turn in the driveway.
My wife and I relocate every 5-6 years or so, or about half as often as I
moved during my 20-year military career. When we were looking at houses for
this latest move, we saw several houses where the garage door doesn't face
the street. We added that to our long list of instant disqualifications.

I think I'd like a garage door that doesn't face the street. As it is, if we wanted
to hire snow removal it would be difficult to find someplace to put the snow.
My DR Horton (builder) sales guy, as well as several realtors, all said
that homes with side-facing garages were quicker to sell, so I guess it's
something that people want.

It simply doesn't work for me at all. On those houses, they always seem to
put the garage door on a side of the house that has no windows, and since
we park on the driveway and leave our garage door(s) open during daylight
hours, it's not an acceptable situation for us.

Ah, well. My garage isn't attached to the house. It doesn't much matter which
way it faces.

Why do you leave your garage door(s) open during daylight hours?

Like I said, instant disqualification, just like a driveway that slopes
down toward the garage, as if rain is going to run uphill away from the
house, or a front yard that has an open drainage ditch where you'd expect a
sidewalk to be.

We have such a ditch, but it never has standing water in it. Or never more
than an inch or so for a short while after a heavy rain.

Another ditch runs behind our property and in the spring it has a fair
amount of water in it. But by mosquito hatching time, it's dry.

We've only been house hunting three times. It's not a hobby for us. We've been
in this house 21 years and plan to leave feet first. My mother has us beat by a
long shot: she's been in the same house since 1966.

Cindy Hamilton