Pre-kids, no problem no garage. With kids, strollers, bikes, sports gear, Costco storage... things have changed.

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Anonymous wrote:Me..between wifey and I we had six cars last year. Now it's down to four (all purpose SUV, sports car, wifey beater, and family/hubby sedan) and DD will be driving for soon. When I was looking for houses 20+ years ago one of the requirement is that it MUST have a two car garage. Our garage is deep so two midsize cars can fit on either side. We moved from a TH where searching and finding people in your assigned parking spot got tiring real fast.

I'm sorry, you lost me at "wifey."

Haha. +1. And I hate when people use I and me improperly. It's "between wifey and ME" ... does no one remember fifth grade grammar? Object of a preposition ... anyone?

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Anonymous wrote:I've never lived in a house with an attached garage. The idea freaks me out - how do you keep fumes from getting in the house?

Um... close the door between the garage and the house.

Yeah but couldn't the fumes somehow still get into the house? I don't get why people want to drive a vehicle into their house.

Totally not what happens with garage parking.
So people living in condos with underneath garage parking arent safe?

Deal breakers-

DH - 3 car garage, must have natural gas access for heat
Me - Tall ceiling in living room for the Christmas tree

Realtor laughed, but met our demands.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never lived in a house with an attached garage. The idea freaks me out - how do you keep fumes from getting in the house?

Um... close the door between the garage and the house.

Yeah but couldn't the fumes somehow still get into the house? I don't get why people want to drive a vehicle into their house.

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Anonymous wrote:I've owned my own home since 1991, and never had a garage until 2004. I'm never going back. Absolute deal breaker. It can be a one car garage, but there must be a garage.

Same here. One of my favorite parts of moving to our current home was not having to deal with the elements when coming and going from our house, especially since I had small children in tow. It's so nice to go out to a cool car in the summer and a clear, warmer car in the winter. I'd never want to give up a garage.

+1

+2 ... no snow/ice scraping!!!

On the other hand, no garage usually means no driveway. In our house we have a parking spot behind the house but no driveway or garage - and that is ideal for me. No driveway = no shoveling except my front walk and the sidewalk in front of my house.

I hate shoveling snow, and any minor work to scrape ice or snow off my car pales in comparison to the benefit I get from not having to shovel a driveway!

Snowblower!
Or in our community (HOA) if you want to contract with the landscaping guys, they will come to your neighborhood and do everyone's driveway for $15 when they are doing the streets.
Well worth it!

All factors equal: no garage is an issue, but I'd consider it for less $.

Anonymous wrote:Me..between wifey and I we had six cars last year. Now it's down to four (all purpose SUV, sports car, wifey beater, and family/hubby sedan) and DD will be driving for soon. When I was looking for houses 20+ years ago one of the requirement is that it MUST have a two car garage. Our garage is deep so two midsize cars can fit on either side. We moved from a TH where searching and finding people in your assigned parking spot got tiring real fast.

I'm sorry, you lost me at "wifey."

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Anonymous wrote:Me..between wifey and I we had six cars last year. Now it's down to four (all purpose SUV, sports car, wifey beater, and family/hubby sedan) and DD will be driving for soon. When I was looking for houses 20+ years ago one of the requirement is that it MUST have a two car garage. Our garage is deep so two midsize cars can fit on either side. We moved from a TH where searching and finding people in your assigned parking spot got tiring real fast.

Me again, Garage Porn, one of favorite sites... http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=7

want.. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?s=9b9af4ae7373b3d52b8328140b3510d4&t=238709

Is that even civilization?

And he uses the term "man cave." This makes everything else he says null and void.

Anonymous wrote:To be honest it's kind of like you are happy with what you don't know.

Like those people who don't understand why you would need more than 2000 SF and love old houses. Until you live in something that is better you are happy with what you have.

Hmmmm. I grew up in a house with an attached 2-car garage, so I know what it's like to have one.

My first house was in the city, no garage or off-street parking. Since I rarely missed having a garage I never even thought about it when we we purchased our second home. The house we bought does have a small 1940s attached garage. We could fit one of our cars in it, but we use it as a shed/bike storage instead and continue to park (legally) on the street, LOL.

Funny this question comes up today: this morning as I was dashing through the deluge to the car, I thought for the first time in the 5 years we've owned this house: "This is one of those times when it would be nice to be parked in the garage."

Totally non-factor for me.

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Anonymous wrote:To be honest it's kind of like you are happy with what you don't know.

Like those people who don't understand why you would need more than 2000 SF and love old houses. Until you live in something that is better you are happy with what you have.

+1, dc area housing is very expensive. You basically take the level of ses and drop it by two levels to adjust your expectations.

I've lived in with garages and without. In a mild climate like DC's, I really, truly don't care about a garage.