If you go to Montreal, you'll see the solution adopted by rural people when they moved to the city in the first half of the 20th century: backyard sheds. I don'

If you go to Montreal, you'll see the solution adopted by rural people when they moved to the city in the first half of the 20th century: backyard sheds. I don't know about the US, but here in rural Quebec, people in my parents' generation tend to accumulate stuff in part, I think, because my grandparent's generation lived in relative poverty, and poor people tended to hang on to stuff just in case it could be useful at some point; for instance, when you got a new car, you'd keep the old one behind the shed so you could strip it for parts.