Everybody round here seems to have the good side facing their own garden on fences between gardens, but the good side facing out where it borders the street. Weird! We don't have a fence between us and the street (low wall and privet hedge) but we stuck with the local convention for our fence between us and next door on one side, so we have the good side of that one and the bad side of the fence that belongs to the neighbours on the other side. They're all in concrete posts so the only difference is we've got the horizontal rails facing us on the side that belongs to next door.
I can understand the security argument for having the horizontal rails within the garden if it borders a public space. Those rails make it much easier for people to climb the fence.
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I can understand the security argument for having the horizontal rails within the garden if it borders a public space. Those rails make it much easier for people to climb the fence.