Since moving to AZ, we've noticed an interesting habit in the way people park their cars. In the residential areas, where there is no vertical curbing, but rather a sloped section of concrete, most people tend to put the passenger side tires up on the sidewalk (not just on the slope) even when the road is quite wide to allow cars to pass parked vehicles. Is this just an AZ thing, a regional practice?

That looks more New England (or perhaps Northern California) than Scottsdale. Sure you have the right picture?

The picture isn't of AZ, it's just an example of what I've noticed. Sharp eye though.

3rd guess was some tiny mountain town in the north of AZ, the architecture would be just barely possible though vegetation doesn't look right.

No brick buildings in NorCal, not since 1906.

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Wasn't speaking to the SF Bay Area, but much farther north. Brick/masonry construction isn't too rare. (Sorry for the tangent.)

http://www.fadingad.com/blog/california/ukiah_toggery01.jpg

NOPE

Still extremely uncommon even in Ukiah.

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That's 105 N. Church Street in Clayton, NC.

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Right click on the photo and do the Google Image search. It's from a December 2010 blogspot article about parking enforcement crackdown.

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right click on the image, then select 'search google images'.
Takes about a second.

Also a great reminder to never post personal pictures with metadata.

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1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

https://media.giphy.com/media/X3nnss8PAj5aU/giphy.gif

Right. And the railroad crossing in the back really narrows down the amount of possible streets to four or five.

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2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

Funny, I was thinking that the picture could have been from around here somewhere.

Sometimes I park that way but only because I am frequently parking in construction areas among other vehicles parked the same way.

As a matter of course, I don't park that way, nor do I see a lot of vehicles parked that way. I think it's laziness or people thinking that parking that way decreases their risk of a side swipe from passing cars and trucks.

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Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

I park that way in front of my house so the debris that floats downhill won't be jammed against my tires.

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The truck guy has no idea where the left half of his vehicle is and normally stops pulling over at the jolt of the curb, in this instance he had to notice the change in relative elevation on his dash inclinometer to decide he was over enough. Not specific to any region, just those with low proprioception skillz. Think of the truck as an extension of ones self.