In response to 2newyorkers comment, I often see corner home owners putting up flexible poles on the corner, or boulders at the "curb" to try to direct drivers away from cutting the corner and damaging their sprinklers.
Additional thought...we seriously considered a corner lot, but the one house that was in our final "short list"of spec homes (be sure to also find out about allowed home orientation on any corner lots you decide to build on) was oriented backwards on the lot. In other words, we couldn't even see the large grass area from the living room (Gardenia) We ultimately decided that that was dumb, as we didn't want to pay extra for the corner, water and mowing, without getting the benefit of seeing it from inside the house. The other side was just as close to the neighbor as any interior lot. We ended uo with a Gardenia with outside golf car garage, and our neighbor visible from our living room windows also has the outside golf car garage, providing us just a few feet of extra visible space from our living room windows.
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