A garage is a space that allows you to store cars.
Garage is a term used to name the space used to store cars . The concept, coming from the French garage, is synonymous with parking , parking , parking or parking lot , the frequency of use of which varies depending on the geographic region.
For example: "Do you know of any garage near the stadium?" , "This area is a little unsafe, I prefer to keep the car in a garage" , "The bad thing is that the hotel does not have a garage" , "Juan bought a three-room house with a garage for $50,000" .
Features of a garage
The garage, therefore, is a physical space where drivers can leave the vehicle for an indefinite period of time . There are houses or apartments that have a garage and whose owners have that place to store their car .
Other garages, however, are commercial establishments intended for this purpose. Customers must pay for parking space based on the amount of time they use it. There are garages that have rates per hour, half a day, day, week or month.
Your advantages
Garages are more common in large cities that have specific regulations for public parking . Whether due to lack of space to leave the car or legal impediment to parking on the street, many people are forced to go to a garage.
Drivers also choose to pay for a garage to avoid possible theft or damage to the car (from the theft of the vehicle itself to the theft of tires or damage to the windshield) or so that the car does not suffer from inclement weather (excessive sun, hail, etc.).
It is worth mentioning that, along with overpopulation, the excess of cars in certain cities is an alarming phenomenon that many governments have been studying for years. One of the most common measures to combat it is to limit circulation in central areas, establishing a time table with time slots that correspond to certain sets of license plates.
Many people who live in the suburbs and work in the city are inclined to use their car to travel to the closest possible point to their workplace , leave it in a garage and then use public transportation to complete the journey. This entails a considerable expense, which they must face every month just to cover the transfer; But it also says a lot about the way in which human beings organize our lives and the dependence that many of us develop on automobiles.
Garage can be used synonymously with parking or parking.
IT Garage
The garage, on the other hand, symbolizes the space in which many of the most outstanding programs, video games and devices have been created since the birth of computing. In this case, the term does not always reflect the real environment in which the projects were conceived, but rather refers to the lack of resources of the creators during the initial stage.
For cultural and economic reasons, not all developers have a private garage (houses with garages are not equally accessible in all countries); However, it is common to come across phrases like “garage project” or “garage developers” to refer to work that is carried out with a lot of passion and little or no source of money.
In the field of computing and, more precisely, video games, there is a widespread idea that the great products of the eighties were born in home laboratories that were improvised in garages, in which small groups of friends met with the same objective: revolutionize the world of technology . Passionate about computers, self-taught programmers and visionary people with a strong vocation for business and great ambition, are some of the profiles that are associated with that time so significant in the history of the digital age.