Why do some people think that they own the road outside their homes?

Someone who lives a few doors away from me is a really friendly, nice man but he goes nuts if someone parks in front of his house, or across the road. He even put a note on another neighbour's car when she temporarily parked across the road from his when her drive was being powerwashed. I think he's probably bored and just looks out of his window all day.

Logically, I totally get what you're saying.

But I'm still annoyed by the black estate car that parks just past mine. The bloke who owns it actually lives in the next street over, but for some reason feels the need to park it in our road. It's parked perfectly legally, but is just ever so slightly in the way when needing to swing round onto my drive. It's fine, but I'm aware of it every time I pull in and out of my road/driveway.

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I live on a terraced street and no one complains about people parking outside our houses, we are just grateful if we can park in the road and not have to find a space 3 streets away

My mums car got keyed multiple times and had tree branches threaded into her wipers for parking on the road outside where we used to live. We lived in a maisonette, and despite every building having a dedicated private parking space the neighbour below wouldn't use his and was adamant no one else could park near his flat. Unfortunately we didn't have visitor bays- that was what the road was for.

I'm the same. Hate folk parking outside my house. A neighbour of mine hates it too.

Wouldn’t your first thought be that they are there to visit someone?

So that’s your neighbours’ fault for not using their driveways. You don’t own the road.

Surely you considered this type of problem when you moved into a cul de sac. It’s a well known and common problem of living in a cul de sac.

With incidents like this OP, start pointing out that you now know where they live, but they don't know that about you.

Oh lovely, nice bit of agism there

Bollocks is it nearly always boomers - its nearly always twats.
My driveway is often blocked by parents (normally mums) going to baby group in the church hall in my road, or other church users. No matter there are plenty of close roads they could park in to not block me in or out - but they cant possibly walk a little further

You must send your DC to a very special school where every parent is considerate of the people that live in that road and surrounding area.

There is a mum who parks her car on DYLs outside her house, she has a garage and parking bay behind the house. Her house is on the corner to the entrance of my road. She once saw a parking attendant by her car and she rushed out screaming that she has rights to park outside her home. The parking attendant ignored her and duly placed a ticket on her windscreen.

She still parks there the lazy bitch. Before anyone asks, there is no one blocking her in as some allocated bays are not designed for every car to park in there at once.

I have said to people, look at your Land Registry details. It shows the perimeter of your property and does not include the road.

Plus if the road actually belongs to you, you are responsible for the condition of the road - so any potholes, lines that need repainting come out YOUR money, not the council's.

No, my neither. I wish I knew where she lived so I could go and park in front of her house
See your future PP, you could grow into bin lady, turn away now!

In my experience there’s always a poster on subjects like this who has to make about “ the dreaded boomers” who it seems have no other purpose in life than to cause misery for other generations.

Yes! There are. Sometimes people get it into their heads that only they can park outside their own house or some older people are unsettled by strangers parking outside their house.
An elderly man once confronted me, my toddler and newborn and told me I could be ‘casing’ his house for all he knew. As I was putting the crying baby into the buggy while the toddler was yelling to be set free from the car seat I told the nice man had neither the time nor energy to either move the car or rob his house.

Why on earth is it an issue for your visitors to park five doors down? And it's not other drivers' fault that your driveway is too narrow for your husband to back in his van.

I will never understand this mentality.

I know someone near where I work who not only thinks she owns the road but also the bin (on street public litter bin, not her own bin). She watch from the window and if anyone put anything bigger that a sweet wrapper in it she out complaining and filming people from the window. She roots through the bin looking for 'evidence' of things she thinks shouldn't be in there and then tries to drum up local support for her 'campaign'. She is worried that people 'not local' are putting stuff in the bin including people not from the England (all her words) who work in the local food factory. She wants the bin removed and replaced with a dog poo bin (she has a dog).

She wasn't well a little while ago, just cold/flu, and so her husband was charged with keeping up the bin surveillance , he wasn't as diligent has her though. I sort of missed hearing the latest in her mad anti bin campaign while he was on duty.

My neighbour is just like this

She can park anywhere she likes,but god help us if we park outside our own house

We've created a driveway and she's still bloody moaning and is pulling her own car further forward so we can't get on our drive

She also thinks she can police what time people can leave their houses/come home/use their garden/turn their lights on/put their bins out etc

We just ignore her which winds her up even further

I call a personality disorder of some kind but could just be because she's a stupid bitch

Guy in our village used to do this. He then started vandalising cars but there was never any evidence. Until he was filmed on dashcam smashing a vans mirror. Not long ago he ran out of his house to yell at someone, tripped over, knocked himself unconscious and has never come round.

when was a kid we got in trouble if we made any noise passing one house, certainly couldn’t play outside.

My NDN thinks she owns hers but if she had visitors etc it’s perfectly fine for her to park outside other peoples houses and block people in. She screams if anyone parks outside hers. She was going away for a month and I said, oh I’ll park outside of hers, she was very unhappy. She wanted it left empty whilst she away (not sure how). Thankfully don’t speak to her now.

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I grew up in a cul de sac and it was very much like this.

Every time a.car drove up the cul-de-sac, one of my parents would look up to see who it was. We lived at the top but, due to the shape of the road, it wasn't obvious on the approach that it wasn't just the road turning and there was no sign to say it was a cul-de-sac either but there were a lot of conversations in the street about people driving up, turning at the top and driving out again because they hadn't realised.

I'd just take it as a sign that it was a road you wouldn't want to live in.

Before we had digital residents' permits, I lived on a road where a very cumudgeonly old man would walk around peering at windscreens checking the validity of all the permits, and then knocking on doors to see if anyone knew whose car was parked without a permit (despite the fact that you could also pay and display and that is what they had done). Thank goodness the digital era thwarted him!