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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We spent 15 years living in some of the more urban areas of DC, [b]where people would have laughed out loud at someone who suggested that no one park in front of their house.[/b]  We moved to the burbs about 7 years ago, and I confess, I feel a quick twinge of irritation when someone parks in front of my house.  But I quickly stamp it down, because IT'S FREAKIN' RIDICULOUS.  Who cares?

Seriously, OP, why do you care?  You already said it doesn't impact your life at all.  [/quote]

Absolute horsesh*t. I've lived in Capitol Hill and Old Town (SE quadrant no less) and everyone knows that the only way you take the spot in front of someon'es house is if there are literally no other spots available.

Like the Del Ray guy said- it is the height of rudeness to park in front of someone else's house and leave it there for a day or more. Taking up two spots would get your tires slashed in Boston.

The whole idea is to lessen the burden of lugging kids and groceries in and out of the house. If obeyed, everyone benefits. All the toys go back into their places.[/quote]

That might work where there are [b]large SF rowhouses[/b] and no multi-family housing, at least a few blocks form a commercial strip - maybe.  I lived in Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights, close to apartments buildings, condos, retail and restaurants, and where there's no street parking during the working day on one side of the street.  Even apart from the visitors to the area who park, there simply isn't one spot per residence on those streets, never mind multiple spots per residence.  You park where you can, hope it isn't more than a half a block away, and do a little jog if you find a spot in front of your house.

Please try and keep up.  Are you always this dense?  [/quote]

Rowhouses aren't SF houses. They are, by natur.e and name, ... part of a row of houses. Please, try to keep up.[/quote]

Not quite. There are row houses in which a single family lives, and that would be a SFH. Then there are ones that are broken up into apartments, and those are not SFH. A house need not be detached from its neighbors to be a SFH—go to any college town and you will see huge old Victorians that are a warren of student apartments. They have multiple bathrooms and kitchens. [/quote]

THe 'single'  in SFH not only refers to a unit for one family but it refers to one unit existing on oits own. If there is another home attcahed to it, it isn't a single family home. At least not in the eyes of the mortage holder and insurer. Language matters.[/quote]

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