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Re:Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a... by Grustaf on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:57AM (#30087034)
> Even worse, most houses (unless they are luxury houses >$500,000 built in the last 5ish years) aren't built with a garage for a car, so you're looking at buying land, smashing down the existing structure, and then rebuilding something with a garage.

I don't know if this is meant to be serious, but you could just park your car outdoors, like city dwellers do?

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Re:Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a... by literallycancer on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:54AM (#30087995)
There's not enough space for everyone to do this. It's also often not free, you have to pay the city for using up the street space etc. New housing in Europe is planned with underground garage space exactly for this reason. SEA cities are even more densely populated.
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Re:Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a... by Grustaf on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:03PM (#30088125)
But aren't we talking about single family houses here, with a garden? If you have room for a garage in your garden, surely you have room for a car without a garage?
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Re:Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a... by literallycancer on Saturday January 29, 2022 @12:37PM (#30128381)
The other poster mentioned Vietnam, I would expect cities there to be quite dense with townhouses or a tiny "garden" that's more like the smallest gap between houses that you can get away with while not breaking the construction code.
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