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as theft deterrents there are absolutely better methods - if a padlock on your garage is adequate, it stands to reason we could have simply standardized on better physical locks on cars.
As shelters from weather, perhaps, but nobody in California needs one for that, yet they're universal there. To stay dry you only need $800 of overhang, not $45k of extra house.
people are responding with some arguments but i'm just going to say there is no argument that would pass muster for *one second* if you prefaced it with "[...] and it'll only cost you $45k and four bedrooms or a complete guest house worth of property area."
this is simply a thing we started doing for no particular reason and nobody ever thought to question it. it's absurd. the things we use them for are in spite of their design; they are not sensible structures tuned for any particularly valid purpose.
they serve as theft deterrent - i don't think that's why they were invented, just once people started stealing cars, car owners saw garages as more desirable. I think they existed prior to widespread automobile theft.
like yes i know there are lots of things we do with them *now* - why did they become *default*? why were people willing to pay so much for them and lose all that property space in places with no intense weather
someone just called me a dipshit who "doesn't know about snow." An overhang will catch snow just as well as a fully enclosed space, except one is tremendously more expensive to build. Go fuck yourself.
They didn't even follow me, which means one of you retweeted me, and I can assure you that was a mistake. Retweeting me is basically self flagellation. I have no idea why anyone would do it. It's just punitive, really.
god fucking forbid I come on twitter, the place where the great minds of this nation come together to vote on the forward path of humanity, and make an offhand comment about house architecture. if only I hadn't outlawed garages. what a monster I am.
won't anyone cry for the garageless? the poor, shivering drivers of Wisconsin who I so callously ripped from the warm bosoms of their car-houses? so rash. i should have thought harder before I spake the future of our species. but no. they will all perish while i eat grapes.
i just can't believe i was so rude. i have no idea how it happened. i'll be going on a six month retreat to a chinese mountain to meditate on this, like celebrities do when they commit massive human rights abuses (as i did, earlier, with the garage comment)
so sorry. dont know how it happened. typo i'm sure. i will tell my interns to do better
i'm interested in a conversation but if you're going to be rude to me 1) don't 2) i'll block you 3) there's absolutely no reason to be rude over a topic that is *completely, absolutely irrelevant* how can i explain this any clearer *i cannot cancel garages*
you don't actually need to repair anything about me not knowing why garages exist. even if i'm wrong! fucking weird i know, *the internet is a brain poison i know*, but i can be wrong about a thing that doesn't matter and you can just... not respond if it makes you mad!
ok but all this was worth it because my girlfriend has just sent me the best wiki pedia 
