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That you need to drive to downtown suggests you might not have much garage space after all?

by xvedejas 3y ago

trimethylpurine 3y ago
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- xvedejas 3y ago
  Your comment seems unnecessarily antagonistic. Given whatever size of garage I have, being somewhere I can live without a car gives me more garage space, regardless of whether it's a suburb. If I want to maximize garage space given my choice of a car-free lifestyle, I would probably move to a suburb with a good train station, not one where "only 20 minutes' drive to downtown" is seen as the selling point. Those are subtly different kinds of places, in my experience, where most people are going to fill their garage space with cars.
  - trimethylpurine 3y ago
    Nah, I'm joking, hopefully not antagonizing. My point was that since you're not downtown, you can park in the street. Minutes to downtown isn't a selling point I'm making. I don't typically go downtown. I've put 10k miles on my car in 3 years. This was in response to someone saying they can't get exercise in a suburb, which I find absurd.
    - akovaski 3y ago
      > when you too are ready to grow up The antagonism is from effectively calling them immature (and thus implying that their opinion is coming from a place of naivety) and placing yourself above them. This is a pretty standard insult that people use to try to be persuasive. I suppose you could say that posting that insult itself is so immature that readers should recognize it as a joke, but I suggest that you should try to stay away from sarcasm when posting in online forums. It can be quite difficult to detect the sarcasm of a bunch of people you don't know. I could end my post by sarcastically saying "don't worry, you'll learn what a joke is when you grow up", but hopefully you can imagine how some people would take that as a genuine insult rather than a joke. Though it would be punchier ending.
      - trimethylpurine 3y ago
        >and placing yourself above them. Like you did by downvoting? Are you young? Because this comment shouldn't be offensive unless you're harboring doubt about immature decisions you've made. For everyone else, it's a tongue in cheek poke at the bad decisions I made when I was younger. Statistically, people tend to leave the city when they get older. If you're insulted by that, you probably still belong in the city. Maybe you should look inward instead of downvoting, or offering explanations that presume a lesser understanding in your audience. Looking up to experience isn't a bad thing. It shows maturity. How's that for a punchy finish? /Shrug.
  - jstanley 3y ago
    You don't need to park the car in the garage you know. Park the car on the drive, keep the garage for a workshop.
- dang 3y ago
  Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here. Please don't post like this, no matter how right you are or feel you are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
saulpw 3y ago
No one parks in the garage in the suburbs :) They either park in the driveway or on the street, both of which have ample room to store vehicles.
- checkyoursudo 3y ago
  I tried parking in my garage for a while, but the car took up too much valuable space.
  - doubled112 3y ago
    This is it. My garage is full of kid's stuff. I don't have a backyard for a shed, plus my landlords installed shelving on all three sides, some not above car roof level. If we want to park a car in there, it's about an hour of moving stuff out of the way. I stand at the back as a spotter while my wife drives at me. Once she hit me, she turns the car off and climbs out through the back seat. I then climb over the roof of the car. I wish I was making this up. Glad it's 12 years old with no sun roof. I don't have to feel bad about sliding over it.

That you need to drive to downtown suggests you might not have much garage space after all?

trimethylpurine 3y ago

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xvedejas 3y ago
Your comment seems unnecessarily antagonistic. Given whatever size of garage I have, being somewhere I can live without a car gives me more garage space, regardless of whether it's a suburb. If I want to maximize garage space given my choice of a car-free lifestyle, I would probably move to a suburb with a good train station, not one where "only 20 minutes' drive to downtown" is seen as the selling point. Those are subtly different kinds of places, in my experience, where most people are going to fill their garage space with cars.
- trimethylpurine 3y ago
  Nah, I'm joking, hopefully not antagonizing. My point was that since you're not downtown, you can park in the street. Minutes to downtown isn't a selling point I'm making. I don't typically go downtown. I've put 10k miles on my car in 3 years. This was in response to someone saying they can't get exercise in a suburb, which I find absurd.
  - akovaski 3y ago
    > when you too are ready to grow up The antagonism is from effectively calling them immature (and thus implying that their opinion is coming from a place of naivety) and placing yourself above them. This is a pretty standard insult that people use to try to be persuasive. I suppose you could say that posting that insult itself is so immature that readers should recognize it as a joke, but I suggest that you should try to stay away from sarcasm when posting in online forums. It can be quite difficult to detect the sarcasm of a bunch of people you don't know. I could end my post by sarcastically saying "don't worry, you'll learn what a joke is when you grow up", but hopefully you can imagine how some people would take that as a genuine insult rather than a joke. Though it would be punchier ending.
    - trimethylpurine 3y ago
      >and placing yourself above them. Like you did by downvoting? Are you young? Because this comment shouldn't be offensive unless you're harboring doubt about immature decisions you've made. For everyone else, it's a tongue in cheek poke at the bad decisions I made when I was younger. Statistically, people tend to leave the city when they get older. If you're insulted by that, you probably still belong in the city. Maybe you should look inward instead of downvoting, or offering explanations that presume a lesser understanding in your audience. Looking up to experience isn't a bad thing. It shows maturity. How's that for a punchy finish? /Shrug.
- jstanley 3y ago
  You don't need to park the car in the garage you know. Park the car on the drive, keep the garage for a workshop.
dang 3y ago
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here. Please don't post like this, no matter how right you are or feel you are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

saulpw 3y ago

No one parks in the garage in the suburbs :) They either park in the driveway or on the street, both of which have ample room to store vehicles.

checkyoursudo 3y ago
I tried parking in my garage for a while, but the car took up too much valuable space.
- doubled112 3y ago
  This is it. My garage is full of kid's stuff. I don't have a backyard for a shed, plus my landlords installed shelving on all three sides, some not above car roof level. If we want to park a car in there, it's about an hour of moving stuff out of the way. I stand at the back as a spotter while my wife drives at me. Once she hit me, she turns the car off and climbs out through the back seat. I then climb over the roof of the car. I wish I was making this up. Glad it's 12 years old with no sun roof. I don't have to feel bad about sliding over it.