Most people in USA suburbs leave from and return to their house in a car 99% of the time, so effectively the garage door is the front door of the house, and the actual front door is mostly vestigial, and kept for ritual purposes.
There’s a house in my neighborhood that doesn’t even have stairs leading to the front door. Like, the door is three feet in the air, no way to actually use it for anything except breaking your ankle while drinking at night.
It is a good way to keep the Jehovah’s Witness and the Mormons at bay, to be fair.
Most people in USA suburbs leave from and return to their house in a car 99% of the time, so effectively the garage door is the front door of the house, and the actual front door is mostly vestigial, and kept for ritual purposes.
There’s a house in my neighborhood that doesn’t even have stairs leading to the front door. Like, the door is three feet in the air, no way to actually use it for anything except breaking your ankle while drinking at night.
It is a good way to keep the Jehovah’s Witness and the Mormons at bay, to be fair.
Guests enter through the front door
Exactly, that’s one of the ritual purposes I was referring to