If you have a driveway why do you not use it?

We have a shared driveway which can fit two cars front to end on our side and same on the other side however I can't get my daughter out of the car if both of next doors cars park on the drive as the shared driveway is quite narrow. We live in a small cul -de-sac and most people park one on the drive and one outside their house - it's kind of an unwritten rule that no-one else parks outside someone else's house!

You've answered your own question really - it's inconvenient for them to shuffle cars about, so they'd rather just keep one on the road. Either they don't realise how annoying that is for others, or they think their convenience is more important.

We only have one car which is lucky as that's all there is parking for around here - it seems to be an issue everywhere that households have more cars than there is really space for, especially now young adults are staying at home for longer so a household could easily have 3 or 4 cars but only space for 1.

As you imply they don't use it as they can't be bothered to move the cars. I don't use mine as it's horribly steep and people have parked right up to it and opposite in the past, making it almost impossible to get off so I avoid the risk of being stuck now. But it's only big enough for one car which is all I have so I park across my dropped kerb. This is illegal apparently but I've not had an issue in 13 years.

Mil and fil have a garage but don’t use it and instead park on the road outside their house… because otherwise other people park there and this bothers mil 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don’t have a driveway, so have to park on the street, but driveways that are intended for 2+ cars are usually 2+ cars wide. If there’s a legal parking space on the street then I wouldn’t unnecessarily block a family member in. What if they need to get out of the drive when I’m out or asleep or something?

This was the reason I excluded any drive that required parking in a line, ours is 2 spaces side by side and we only use the drive - if ds gets a car (currently only 14 so no need yet) then we could lose some of the garden by the drive to accommodate that.

To annoy the neighbours 😂

We park one car outside the house and one on the drive to save time swapping the cars around. Never thought it would annoy anyone else in a residential area

Really, really bad at parking?

Sometimes people do it to reserve the spot in the road outside the house.

we kind of have a drive, but it’s very narrow and the gate posts are a squeeze. We live on a tight road which not only has cars parked both sides, it’s also a bus route. We tend not to use the drive as more often than not once there’s a car parked opposite and two parked either side of the dropped curb we can’t swing round enough to get in or even worse, out.

Because they are too lazy to move one car if they need the other