Neighbours have decided that myself and NDN park some of our cars in another street to make it fairer for everyone. AIBU to ignore the request?

🤣🤣🤣 love that!

2 car spaces per house is absolutely fair and you would be unreasonable to say no, you need 4 spots to yourself and Sheila two doors down has to park a street away. How can you not see that’s selfish?

Where’s the voting? Did you not want to see the 100% YABU OP? Well, YABU.

I'm on your side OP. When my brother and I were still living at home we had a car each because we lived in a village with fuck all public transport and had to get to and from work and college somehow. Our parents had a car each for same reason = 4 cars.

One grumpy old mare from a few doors down tried to tell me once I shouldn't park in a certain part of the public road we all lived on because our family had too many cars. I ignored her then proceeded to park right outside her house for the next 2 weeks.

You're doing nothing wrong. Tell your neighbour to jog on.

I now live near a beauty spot and our unpermitted road is absolutely rammed with cars on sunny days. We just have to deal with it!

It's a public street and anyone ca park there. If you have 3 separate people living there that all drive that is different to say a couple having 3 between 2.

Personally keep parking where you are legally parking.

Easily done - we have 3 cars but when the youngest is 17 that will be 4, and when the eldest two visit there are currently 5 cars here (on the drive though). But that said if we were parking on the street we would definitely try to put a couple of them further away.

Why can’t you walk 1/2 a mile in the dark?

You are so very unreasonable. I would hate it if you were my neighbour.

It depends how many drivers there are per house, if you have 4 people of driving age then yanbu.
Our neighbours one side have 2 drivers and 4 cars-usually 3 are on their drive but sometimes only 2, the other side also only have 2 drivers and at one point had 5 cars, again most on their drive but at least one on the road, meanwhile DH and I have 2 cars and both are on our drive!

Sounds like a precursor to the neighbours seeking residents parking so unless you want to risk the cost of permits, some of which are limted per household, I'd try being more considerate.

Love it. Well said

We have 5 cars in our house and the teens/twenty year old park a short walk away out of respect for the neighbours.

They would stand on a bus or a train for several of our neighbours due to their ages so it would be odd, imo, not to be considerate in the street.

We live on a road which is basically all off street parking with resident/visitor permits during the week. Parking can be a nightmare at times. I don't know of anyone with more than 2 cars but generally if people have a skip outside or trades in with more than a couple of vehicles, they tend to park their own car elsewhere so as not to inconvenience others by taking too much space up on the road. So I can see where your neighbour is coming from tbh.

I agree if public transport is available.
I live in a village so car parking isn't such a issue, but the nearest towns also don't have reliable public transport and the old railway line has been used as a pleasant running/walking/dog walking trail since the 50s.

You are being very unreasonable.

I live rurally. The kids cannot wait to learn to drive!
Most of the time it's just my car in my parking space. When my adult son comes home he drives...in his car...and parks in a visitor parking space.

Oh yeah....just move house!
It is entirely plausible that children grow up and have their own cars

But maybe they need to look at using buses and trains. This is often urban victorian streets that have no driveways etc. There will be public transport options. Or perhaps need to look at how lifts can be shared to reduce the need for 4+ cars for one household. The pollution must be awful.

How many cars are actually yours? The NDN cars are not relevant to your decision.
Do you have 4 cars for 4 people? Hoe many can fit outside your house?
Having said that, I wouldnt want to be leaving my car every night at a free car park. But then neither do your neighbours and they are also entitled to park as they wish.
Can you coordinate to drop each other off at the free car park?

I think most house holds would have 3 cars wouldn’t they? Myself and dh have a car each for work and 4 children so inevitably they will learn to drive.

No, in many areas families will leave on a public transit route to at least one adult's workplace, and will share one family car.

Even where both mum & dad have a car each most teenagers have to be insured on a parents car & do not have their own to drive.

Oh yeah....just move house!
It is entirely plausible that children grow up and have their own cars.
Moving house because you are breaking some unwritten rule about how many cars a single household can park on a public road is crazy.

I used to live on an estate like this. It was made up almost entirely of Victorian terraced houses, and needless to say, hardly any of them had driveways. I didn't even have a car, but I hated the parking issues. It was frustrating trying to get large items such as furniture delivered, as the delivery drivers usually couldn't park near enough. More importantly, having cars parked on both sides of the road (and on junctions) made crossing the road more dangerous, especially for children. There was also an incident with a fire engine being unable to get through.

I don't understand why some of the households had so many vehicles. We were a 15 minute walk from the town centre and only a five minute walk from the railway station. Also, why could none of these adults car-share? I usually walked to work, but for a while, I worked in another town one day per week and just took the train. The trade-off of living close to the centre was fewer parking spaces.

Anyway, we ended up with a residents' parking scheme with a maximum of two permits allowed per household. Some residents were furious, but they only had themselves to blame.

Interesting.

The house opposite me has five cars, and occasional visitors. The one next to them has three.

It can be hard to park on the road. I don't think anyone thinks anything about this at all though.

We do all have drives, but five car house can park two on their drive (they had it made wider to have a charging point put in), and three car house can park one.

I can park three on my drive, because the houses my side are set back further from the road (smaller back gardens).

If I ever have to park on the road, it can be a challenge, so I often park round the corner in those circumstances. But it's never occured to me to think my neighbours are bell ends for it.

Glad I have someone to blame now though, that makes me feel better.

It was very clear it was an issue that both OP and NDN are contributing to.
All households having one or two cars and one person getting upset about OP having 3 would seem unreasonable, but I presume most have 1 or 2 and OP and NDN have 7 between them.
3 isn't a crazy number - 2 parents and 1 older teenager.

Before anyone launches into me - I live in a one car household.

Because they aren’t moaning about it, their neighbour is. They are entitled to park their vehicles there, end of.

You all pay road tax, park on the road. Why do they get to decide who parks there? 3 cars for one household is not excessive. It's one car per person in your case. Different if you have 3 just for you.