To remove the parking cones?

Merriam Webster: analogy noun

1a
a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect

The particular aspect obviously being the standard places where things live when they aren't being used, and the fact that neither object in one of these places has been 'dumped'. Of course I wasn't suggesting that your living room is a public place; nor that the public road isn't a public place; that was kind of the nuance of my point.

You're very right that I have much better things to do - and I wasn't the one who decided to quibble over somebody else's word usage and then decide that my own preferred analogy meant that somebody else's somehow wasn't then an analogy - so I am extremely happy to leave it there if you are.

Have a pleasant day!

She's being inconsiderate.
HTH

Nudge the cone out of the way. Put a notice in the car window that this car is parked entirely legally on a public road and is equipped with motion-sensitive video recording which will capture images of anyone interfering with it in any way (getting keyed or tires slashed is unfortunately very likely)

OP doesn't really fit in to the 'people come, people go' - she stays all day, every day.

I’ve had my car vandalised for parking legally in a residential street. So I wouldn’t want to risk being seen to move the cones. But I might be tempted to do it in the evening, and then park in the spot in the morning and if challenged, the cones weren’t there!
Def worth an email to your council highways team. They may do nothing but sometimes councils stamp down on this stuff and they may swing by and remove them.

"Publicly owned" then.

The rest is irrelevant.

If you owned the land in front of your house then where does it stop?

Do you have the right to sunbathe naked in the front garden of the people who live opposite as well?

Weird. I didn’t even type ‘public land’.

All the words you typed after "public land" were superfluous.

you pay council tax and can as now, park legally on the road,.

If the residents want parking restrictions, they'll have to pay for permits and organise it - until then you have every opportunity to park there.

Id leave a small note in the windscreen - Please be aware they car is recording on an internal camera - it will hopefully dissuaded anyone from doing anything silly

But she CAN have free parking on a street with no parking restrictions. The residents have no more entitlement to it than she does. So she doesn't need to spend her money unnecessarily paying to park at the station, which is both expensive and less convenient for her.

HTH.

@BananaSqueezer

It's simple, if it's going to wind the crap out of you, don't ever buy/rent a house without a drive, near a school, offices, hospital, shops, popular tourist area, town, village, city etc etc etc.

Otherwise you've got no choice but to suck it up, because someone or other will always be in 'your' publicly owned space.

Do you have a logical and realistic solution?

No thought not, because there isn't one, but hey you carry on getting emotional as much as you like.

Correct! We left a lovely detached property, with a garage and off street parking for 2 cars because DH had a life changing illness. On our much reduced income we couldn’t afford the mortgage, the higher council tax, an extra car.

We bought a cheaper house, in an area with good public transport and amenities, and now have only one car, which is parked on the street outside. We accept that’s part of life.

Electric cargo bike? Parking wise I think you are fine to move the cone but sympathise with the local residents. Have lived somewhere with unrestricted parking and it was a nightmare even when single (which I didn't appreciate before I purchased the flat quite how annoying it would be and how difficult to find a space) but imagine massively worse if you have young kids or mobility issues

This. Can’t you park at the station?

Masses of children with 1 working parent have a lot if not all of those things, you might be surprised with the lifestyle you can retain if you change things up a bit. Also the growing own veg sounds great 😀 But as for the parking, YANBU.

I really think that it might be a worthwhile thing for the government/council/Highways Agency to launch a public awareness campaign to explain to people how land rights work - and the difference/boundaries between your own private property and public property that is available for anybody to use, subject to any official restrictions.

If they had the money to spend recently to tell people who've broken down on the motorway to try to move left to the hard shoulder and not just merrily stay where they are if avoidable, they surely have it to spend on this too.

'Your spot' is your own home, garden, drive and/or everything that is shown on the deeds to the property that you own or rent.

'Your next-door neighbour's spot' is the home, garden, drive and/or everything that is shown on the deeds to the property that they own or rent - in spite of the fact that it's still very close to 'your spot' and would probably be quite convenient for you to use/park on.

The publicly-owned land that consists of virtually all roads and pavements is 'everybody's spot' on a first-come-first-served basis, subject to any official restrictions.

Seeing it as somehow 'your spot' - and that your neighbours on the street, neighbours living on adjacent streets where parking isn't allowed, or any other owner of a road-legal car - is indeed truly entitled.

This is me and I do have this shit going on outside my house (inner London like PP). That was the deal when we bought. I don't love it - I have "my" space and would rather every other driver didn't see it - but it broadly works. People come, people go... it's a road. The council proposed a CPZ here recently and it was a resounding no.

I knew after reading the op this would turn into to a thread about her abandoning her kids and being a bastard for parking perfectly legally 🤣

My word doesn't have to be final to you, but it is to me.
It's not an analogy, not matter how many times you say it is. I explained that very clearly in my first reply. Have a pleasant day, I am sure we both have better or more pressing things to do. ;)

All the people wanging on that it’s a public road and you can park there and anywhere else. I’ll bet they don’t have this shit going on outside their houses and they can park their 4 by 4s with ease. This whole thread reeks of entitlement.

We had this issue, when we bought the house it was a small secondary school, parents dropped kids off inside the school etc so was fine, just bit of traffic around drop off and pick up times etc. since then, school has added a large sixth form part, with no extra parking for the students. Our road is now frequently overrun with cars parking with sixth formers. I had my car reversed into 3 times last year, and we’ve also had people waiting and parking in marked resident parking spots, or on grass verges and across drives, so some neighbours have resorted to cones. One of the risks with moving down a road with a school and we try not to moan about it, but hard not to get annoyed sometimes

I had, as you suggested; but you broke that agreement and decided to continue engaging with me on the same point - in fact not even engaging, but just by nitpicking and contradicting several respected online dictionaries by declaring that my analogy was not an analogy, as though your word is final - so I just replied to you.

I know, OP is crazily entitled, right?

Perhaps OP could consider this when routinely using a residential street as a car park.

MN is a fucking weird place. I didn’t know people could be so entitled, rude and inconsiderate en masse. I hope a lot of these posts are just keyboard warriors on the wind up because it’s genuinely worrying to think this is how people think.