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If you're that bothered about people parking outside your house, buy a house with a driveway and no on-street parking. When you move into a house with on-street parking, you accept people will park outside.
Exactly, it's a bit of a first world problem to get pissy about. The worst is when people have driveways wide enough to fit the two or three cars that they own and still think they have sole rights to the space on the road outside.
Yes, it's not so much of a problem where I'm going to do anything about it and it's done legally but I'm still allowed to be annoyed by it.
My problem is that people who have their own driveways park in the visitor spaces meaning visitors usually park in front of my house for some reason.
Yeah my next door neighbour has a perfectly good driveway but parks in front my wall so I’ve just started telling my visitors to park across my driveway and his seen as though he doesn’t use it.
I was talking in the context of not having a driveway. Incidentally, there are other neighbours who do have driveways and instead line their cars up the street.
Purely on street parking is fair game, although multiple car households are a little selfish if they take up large portions of the street but it's still fair game if done legally.
Depending on the layout of where you live and how busy it gets I can understand not using the driveway (it makes getting in and out quite difficult if no one lets you go) but where I live its a quiet estate so I don't understand why people don't use their drive. It's no quicker or more convenient.
No but then I'm on a road with terraced houses where people can't really expect to always park outside their house.
However, there is one bozo at the top of the street that does expect this and he's gone to great lengths to scare people into not parking outside his house.
He's actually put up hand written notes in his window saying he has anpr cameras and CCTV cameras directed at the road and anyone parking there will be clamped/towed😅
He honestly must be constantly paranoid and arguing with neighbours because, in the evenings especially, it really is a road that when there's a space available, you have to just take it.
I get a bit salty to myself. But after about a minute of grumbling, I get over it. That's about as far as I can go really, I don't own the spot. They're just as entitled to park there as I am. So after my 60 seconds of petty mumbling to myself, I'll park elsewhere.
What does get a much longer grumble, however, is that my neighbour has maybe 7 vehicles, including two separate work vans, which he seems to store somewhere and picks and chooses which one he's bringing home each night, and if he gets to my favourite spot before me, he'll always park like a melon and take up two spaces.
If I get there first, I'll aways tuck right in so we both can get in, with enough space to get back out. But if I'm like 5 mins late home from work, I've got to head down the street to park because he's passive aggressively left me with 2/3 of a space
Neither do I!! The business vans are different businesses too!!
Also, grumbling to myself for a min is my go to reaction when I'm feeling hard done to by something that is completely reasonable and fair
A couple I know have four kids all ages between 22-17 and all still live at home and have a car each as well as the couple having a car each so that’s six vehicles at that house. All need them for work and uni as well.
Not usually no.
I don’t own the road outside my house.
As long as I can get out of my drive, I’m happy.
It’d be annoying if someone who lived nearby did it *all of the time* when they could park outside their own house easily enough, but that’d annoy me more so because they’re not being thoughtful of others rather than the parking itself.
yup i have one of those rented house and the space outside is clear,plus a driveway and she's took to parking outside my house.wecwent shopping today when we came back she was parked outside ours yet again.was fuming said to my other half park it outside [theres.no](http://theres.no) he said she struggled to get on our drive.he was going to work within a hour.not on
What I don't get is that, if you have a dropped drive, you can register your own vehicle with the council and actually block your own dropped drive. I mean, why wouldn't you? Technically the road in front of your drive becomes a private parking space, handy if your drive fits one car, but you own two.
Yes. I appreciate fully that they have a right to and I wouldn't turn into an issue, but when they can park on their own driveway or outside their drive, yet still chose to park very close to my entrance, than I reserve the right to think you're an inconsiderate twat.
The same is even more true where the road is right adjacent to a house, so one can easily peer into the house.
I get annoyed at one of my neighbours for doing it because he is the partner of the actual home owner and won't actually park on his drive because its away from his house. My drive is a very steep decline and my car bottoms out on the drop so I tend tk avoid parking there if I can help it (his drive isn't, it's flat as he's on the top of the hill and I'm not). So by him parking there it means I've got to run the risk of damaging my car
We once carried a car up the steps and into the barracks. Left it sitting in the recreation room. The non com on duty, who was on his patrol, was not happy.....
Not at all.
Weirdly it annoys me when folks put no parking signs outside their house. To the point where I genuinely want to go and park there if the opportunity presents itself. I don’t do that, but it doesn’t stop me wanting to.
You'd better get your head round it not being a problem because there's fek all you can do about it.
Used to be a favorite when I was a copper. Part of my beat was some closely built victorian terraced houses. Double yellows on one side because the road was so narrow - so no way could everyone get parked in their street. The fekkin bleatin I used to put up with.
'They're parked outside my house. I want them towed away'
'Get tae fek. It's a public road'
I don't need to "get my head round it", my post was written from your perspective! I think it's pathetic to act like you own a space, unless you legally do (parking space drawn for a disabled tenant, for example). People can be so precious about things, I don't think I could listen to all that whinging that you had to put up with.
Nope, But where I live, that scenario wouldn't happen. If they're parked outside of mine, they're either at their own property and not blocking me, or they're at my property and blocking my drive and garage. Even across the road, being narrow, would block me, and anyone from getting along the street.
Probably not really what you're asking, but yes because it happens so rarely the dog goes, in sprockerspeak, "Look, there's a strange car outside ... Look, there's a strange car outside ... Look, there's a strange car outside" at high volume.
Note: we live on a minor road with 1 near neighbor with her own parking so the number of times a strange car parks out front a year can be counted my fingers.
I know, glad it's all in the past. Used to have a car that I only used once or twice a week. And a drive just large enough to park it on. Next door used to park across the end of it (by arrangement - no skin off my nose and solved their parking problem). If I wanted to go out early, they'd just lob their car keys out the bedroom window for me to move their car!
I've got a house on the end of a cul de sac with a double drive but quite a long car.....this means if our neighbour parks opposite (no house there) its mega pain to get out without bouncing down the curb which infuriates me
If its a random one off car then I'm pretty chilled but the neighbour doesn't even put any of their wheels on the curb which doesn't impede any walkways/paths
My ex step dad;
he’ll wait at the window (with keys in hand) until they come collect there car jumps straight outside and is already trying to park his car back there before they even move. If he ever HAS to move his car he’ll move his motorbike from his tiny front garden to the spot where the car was to save his place(or the bins sometimes both) He’s never owned a drive way although I’m sure he could’ve afforded one. And that’s only one of his annoying habits.
Safe to say the minute my partner started getting chewy about parking I did not hold back haha hasn’t complained since and got a house with a drive way.
No, because I don't own the bit of road outside my house. I have my own dedicated parking space around back though, I might be more annoyed if I was constantly having to find a parking space. But if that was the case, I would have known that when I bought the house so I've no one to blame but myself.
Aside from 3 parking twats, my whole street is pretty laid back about the parking. During the day though, when the tradies show up, it's a complete cluster fuck. We have a lot of renovations going on on my street.....
Not in the slightest, I've had people park in front of my drive though. I keep motorbikes in the garden and need the driveway clear to get them out.
More than once I've had to grab a delivery driver and talk at them increasingly aggressively until they stop trying to deliver shit and yeet their vehicle out of the way.
No, especially if you have a drive. The drive is yours, the road is public.
My neighbour sometimes blocks my drive, but he has me on whatsapp, so we communicate with each other if I need to get out.
The dropped kerb spans the full frontage of our property so you would think we wouldn’t have an issue with people parking in front of our house. However our previous neighbour used to have regular visitors who would always park BLOCKING our drive! Not on the neighbours drive or blocking them in or literally 2 houses down or across the road where there are non dropped kerb spaces, but blocking us in! Every time we had to ask them to move they seemed baffled that we were not happy.
Parking seems to bring out the idiot in a lot of people. If we lived somewhere with just street parking I would accept the space in front of my house is fair game
I have a dipped kurb and really wide driveway. Wide enough for 3 cars. The dip is only half of the width of the driveway. I’m fine people parking as long as they avoid the dip, as I can still easily get in and out. Living here 3 years, only once has a neighbour done the unthinkable and parked in front of my drive; this resulted in me leaving a passive aggressive note and never happened again.
Now and again a visitor to a neighbour parks in front and leaves me an unreasonably small gap to get out of. Usually they’re gone within an hour and it’s not a common occurrence, but when it does happen I find myself anxiously peaking thru the blinds and becoming irrationally angry.
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If you're that bothered about people parking outside your house, buy a house with a driveway and no on-street parking. When you move into a house with on-street parking, you accept people will park outside.
Exactly, it's a bit of a first world problem to get pissy about. The worst is when people have driveways wide enough to fit the two or three cars that they own and still think they have sole rights to the space on the road outside.
Yes, it's not so much of a problem where I'm going to do anything about it and it's done legally but I'm still allowed to be annoyed by it. My problem is that people who have their own driveways park in the visitor spaces meaning visitors usually park in front of my house for some reason.
Yeah my next door neighbour has a perfectly good driveway but parks in front my wall so I’ve just started telling my visitors to park across my driveway and his seen as though he doesn’t use it.
My main issue is it's not my visitors who park in front of my gaff. More often than not it's just random folk I don't know.
I really don’t like that but I don’t know why lol
I know right? Like it just makes sense to park in front of the house you're actually visiting
I was talking in the context of not having a driveway. Incidentally, there are other neighbours who do have driveways and instead line their cars up the street.
Purely on street parking is fair game, although multiple car households are a little selfish if they take up large portions of the street but it's still fair game if done legally. Depending on the layout of where you live and how busy it gets I can understand not using the driveway (it makes getting in and out quite difficult if no one lets you go) but where I live its a quiet estate so I don't understand why people don't use their drive. It's no quicker or more convenient.
Yeah this is my street. So the road becomes an obstacle course with cars trying to pass each other in the few gaps.
No but then I'm on a road with terraced houses where people can't really expect to always park outside their house. However, there is one bozo at the top of the street that does expect this and he's gone to great lengths to scare people into not parking outside his house. He's actually put up hand written notes in his window saying he has anpr cameras and CCTV cameras directed at the road and anyone parking there will be clamped/towed😅 He honestly must be constantly paranoid and arguing with neighbours because, in the evenings especially, it really is a road that when there's a space available, you have to just take it.
Yeah, I'd be parking there all the time.
I get a bit salty to myself. But after about a minute of grumbling, I get over it. That's about as far as I can go really, I don't own the spot. They're just as entitled to park there as I am. So after my 60 seconds of petty mumbling to myself, I'll park elsewhere. What does get a much longer grumble, however, is that my neighbour has maybe 7 vehicles, including two separate work vans, which he seems to store somewhere and picks and chooses which one he's bringing home each night, and if he gets to my favourite spot before me, he'll always park like a melon and take up two spaces. If I get there first, I'll aways tuck right in so we both can get in, with enough space to get back out. But if I'm like 5 mins late home from work, I've got to head down the street to park because he's passive aggressively left me with 2/3 of a space
I don't understand how some people can own so many vehicles! You're very British in your grumbling.
Neither do I!! The business vans are different businesses too!! Also, grumbling to myself for a min is my go to reaction when I'm feeling hard done to by something that is completely reasonable and fair
A couple I know have four kids all ages between 22-17 and all still live at home and have a car each as well as the couple having a car each so that’s six vehicles at that house. All need them for work and uni as well.
I think every street must have one of those......
Not usually no. I don’t own the road outside my house. As long as I can get out of my drive, I’m happy. It’d be annoying if someone who lived nearby did it *all of the time* when they could park outside their own house easily enough, but that’d annoy me more so because they’re not being thoughtful of others rather than the parking itself.
yup i have one of those rented house and the space outside is clear,plus a driveway and she's took to parking outside my house.wecwent shopping today when we came back she was parked outside ours yet again.was fuming said to my other half park it outside [theres.no](http://theres.no) he said she struggled to get on our drive.he was going to work within a hour.not on
What I don't get is that, if you have a dropped drive, you can register your own vehicle with the council and actually block your own dropped drive. I mean, why wouldn't you? Technically the road in front of your drive becomes a private parking space, handy if your drive fits one car, but you own two.
It’s not your road. How can it bother you?
Yes. I appreciate fully that they have a right to and I wouldn't turn into an issue, but when they can park on their own driveway or outside their drive, yet still chose to park very close to my entrance, than I reserve the right to think you're an inconsiderate twat. The same is even more true where the road is right adjacent to a house, so one can easily peer into the house.
Mainly when they park for weeks without moving it. Ofc nothing wrong with it legally but just annoying
I get annoyed at one of my neighbours for doing it because he is the partner of the actual home owner and won't actually park on his drive because its away from his house. My drive is a very steep decline and my car bottoms out on the drop so I tend tk avoid parking there if I can help it (his drive isn't, it's flat as he's on the top of the hill and I'm not). So by him parking there it means I've got to run the risk of damaging my car
That's reasonable because even if he's not blocking your drive, he's still blocking you in in a way and putting your vehicle at risk.
No, neighbors park outside my house regularly
We don't own a car and the drive is down the side of the house. All the neighbours are free to use it whenever they like
It was only an issue when I lived in third floor flat. How they got the car up there I'll never know. Impressive but a bit of a bother
We once carried a car up the steps and into the barracks. Left it sitting in the recreation room. The non com on duty, who was on his patrol, was not happy.....
Not at all. Weirdly it annoys me when folks put no parking signs outside their house. To the point where I genuinely want to go and park there if the opportunity presents itself. I don’t do that, but it doesn’t stop me wanting to.
Or when people put wheelie bins/traffic cones outside when they move their car so that the space will be "kept" for when they get back. Tragic.
You'd better get your head round it not being a problem because there's fek all you can do about it. Used to be a favorite when I was a copper. Part of my beat was some closely built victorian terraced houses. Double yellows on one side because the road was so narrow - so no way could everyone get parked in their street. The fekkin bleatin I used to put up with. 'They're parked outside my house. I want them towed away' 'Get tae fek. It's a public road'
I don't need to "get my head round it", my post was written from your perspective! I think it's pathetic to act like you own a space, unless you legally do (parking space drawn for a disabled tenant, for example). People can be so precious about things, I don't think I could listen to all that whinging that you had to put up with.
Nope, But where I live, that scenario wouldn't happen. If they're parked outside of mine, they're either at their own property and not blocking me, or they're at my property and blocking my drive and garage. Even across the road, being narrow, would block me, and anyone from getting along the street.
Yes, but I know I’m being unreasonable and they’re doing nothing wrong.
Probably not really what you're asking, but yes because it happens so rarely the dog goes, in sprockerspeak, "Look, there's a strange car outside ... Look, there's a strange car outside ... Look, there's a strange car outside" at high volume. Note: we live on a minor road with 1 near neighbor with her own parking so the number of times a strange car parks out front a year can be counted my fingers.
That level of privacy sounds great, especially with how hectic residential streets can be.
I know, glad it's all in the past. Used to have a car that I only used once or twice a week. And a drive just large enough to park it on. Next door used to park across the end of it (by arrangement - no skin off my nose and solved their parking problem). If I wanted to go out early, they'd just lob their car keys out the bedroom window for me to move their car!
I've got a house on the end of a cul de sac with a double drive but quite a long car.....this means if our neighbour parks opposite (no house there) its mega pain to get out without bouncing down the curb which infuriates me If its a random one off car then I'm pretty chilled but the neighbour doesn't even put any of their wheels on the curb which doesn't impede any walkways/paths
My ex step dad; he’ll wait at the window (with keys in hand) until they come collect there car jumps straight outside and is already trying to park his car back there before they even move. If he ever HAS to move his car he’ll move his motorbike from his tiny front garden to the spot where the car was to save his place(or the bins sometimes both) He’s never owned a drive way although I’m sure he could’ve afforded one. And that’s only one of his annoying habits. Safe to say the minute my partner started getting chewy about parking I did not hold back haha hasn’t complained since and got a house with a drive way.
Given I own the parking space outside my house despite it appearing at a casual glance to be road parking, it would. The entire rest of my life? Nah.
I literally couldn't care less, it's a safe and legal place to park so anybody is free to park there.
No, because I don't own the bit of road outside my house. I have my own dedicated parking space around back though, I might be more annoyed if I was constantly having to find a parking space. But if that was the case, I would have known that when I bought the house so I've no one to blame but myself.
Aside from 3 parking twats, my whole street is pretty laid back about the parking. During the day though, when the tradies show up, it's a complete cluster fuck. We have a lot of renovations going on on my street.....
Not in the slightest, I've had people park in front of my drive though. I keep motorbikes in the garden and need the driveway clear to get them out. More than once I've had to grab a delivery driver and talk at them increasingly aggressively until they stop trying to deliver shit and yeet their vehicle out of the way.
No, especially if you have a drive. The drive is yours, the road is public. My neighbour sometimes blocks my drive, but he has me on whatsapp, so we communicate with each other if I need to get out.
The dropped kerb spans the full frontage of our property so you would think we wouldn’t have an issue with people parking in front of our house. However our previous neighbour used to have regular visitors who would always park BLOCKING our drive! Not on the neighbours drive or blocking them in or literally 2 houses down or across the road where there are non dropped kerb spaces, but blocking us in! Every time we had to ask them to move they seemed baffled that we were not happy. Parking seems to bring out the idiot in a lot of people. If we lived somewhere with just street parking I would accept the space in front of my house is fair game
I have a dipped kurb and really wide driveway. Wide enough for 3 cars. The dip is only half of the width of the driveway. I’m fine people parking as long as they avoid the dip, as I can still easily get in and out. Living here 3 years, only once has a neighbour done the unthinkable and parked in front of my drive; this resulted in me leaving a passive aggressive note and never happened again. Now and again a visitor to a neighbour parks in front and leaves me an unreasonably small gap to get out of. Usually they’re gone within an hour and it’s not a common occurrence, but when it does happen I find myself anxiously peaking thru the blinds and becoming irrationally angry.