If you get enough snow that digging your car out might be a concern, isn't the street going to be snowed in as well?
(I'm not sure why you're equating urban=ancient and suburb=1950s, that's got to be specific to certain places surely?)
I don't have a good feeling for how much space an acre is or what it would cost, so I went googling: high £1.7m in London suburbs, http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/land-for-sale.asp?id=72226 versus £55k http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/land-for-sale.asp?id=73298 remote Scottish island.
If you get enough snow that digging your car out might be a concern, isn't the street going to be snowed in as well?
(I'm not sure why you're equating urban=ancient and suburb=1950s, that's got to be specific to certain places surely?)
I don't have a good feeling for how much space an acre is or what it would cost, so I went googling: high £1.7m in London suburbs, http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/land-for-sale.asp?id=72226 versus £55k http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/land-for-sale.asp?id=73298 remote Scottish island.