I’ve noticed that most, if not all, houses I’ve passed by front face the road. Why not face away from the road?
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The front would be defined as the side that faces the street, unless you have a large property with a very long driveway, in which case the front would be wherever you place it. Mostly there just isn’t room for a long driveway on modern small properties, you’d have half your yard taken up by it. I grew up in a place where garages were in back of the houses because the garage is where the old carriage house/horse barn was. But small properties are all going to face the street and have an ugly garage opening up front. I’ve only 1/5 of an acre, I’d have no backyard with any other design.
There are still a fair number of properties in my state with no stairs to an unused old “front” door, because at one point there was a door tax. So Great-Grandpa took the steps out in order to pay lower taxes.
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