Why purchase a home without it's own driveway?

Don't a lot of the older urban areas have alleys, at least my first place in the city did. I had a garage, and still had a street parking permit because it was more convenient to park in front of my house.

Yeah that’s not good.

In most downtown areas it’s street parking or an entire payment equivalent to rent some times.

What’s worse is we’ve chosen to live in the city for convenience to work and play but can’t quite shed the auto.

Growing up, we had a narrow driveway with no room to move snow in the winter. (We get around ten feet of snow a year here)

Now I have acres and acres to blow it to. It makes me happy

You go with what works
The house I grew up on didn't have a driveway