ozzieeagle

They cook and eat in them around here. Especially in Pascoe Vale and Fawkner.

paulry

...Your neighbours' double garages look like antique shops.

paulry

....Another driver nearly causes an accident ....and they curse at you!

paulry

....Nearly everyone seems to own a petrol lawnmower and a chainsaw

Lucas_Dad

.... Flymos, nor any other electric mower, are by far the least popular choice.

.... lawns are simply green (occasionally), not green with stripes. I miss mowing my lawn and getting stripes.

Lucas_Dad

.... Driving laws change, and nobody gives a monkey's.

Actually, that's pretty much the same everywhere. Sometimes not even the police follow the law. In NSW is law to have to indicate off of roundabouts. I followed a police car across six roundabouts on one drive, he/she didn't indicate once.

Kim67

Bunbury WA. If you pulled into my aunt and uncles driveway in Bunbury and the garage door wasn't open and the two of them were not sitting there having a beer and a ciggy, you knee that they were either not home or both in the loo.

You'd wait 2 minutes and if nobody showed up, you may as well not waste the energy of knocking on the door.

My uncle died 10 years ago but I'm sure the rules still apply.

Gordon Barlow

You know you're still in Australia when... "Footie" can mean any one of four codes. I was brought up in a Rugby League town, and that's what "footie" meant there!

Amazulu

I've never seen people sitting their garages around these parts

paulry

...And Aussie lawns get those massive dandelion-like weeds that when you you pull them out they leave a very noticeable bald patch.

Kim67

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Nothing wrong with a bald patch 😃

Pollyana

I lived in a street in north Brisbane for a while where all the neighbours used to do it.

Amazulu

Fair enough. I guess it's no different from council estates or poorer areas in the UK where all the adults seem to be out on the street or in their front gardens in the evening

spouse of scouse

Maybe they don't have a patio but still want to sit outside under cover? I don't think there's a law that states only cars can use a garage.

GarryP

Examples I'm thinking of do have (small) back gardens, so the smoking idea doesn't sound right.

It's not so much 'law' as I've never really worked out why they do it and why it is so prevalent. There is some kind of cultural thing about garages and it being a halfway place between 'outside' and 'inside' I think.

It's very much an australian thing.