People who don’t use their drives. Why? 😆

18 months ago we moved to a house with a drive big enough to park side by side after 15+ years of having one allocated parking space 400 yards from the house that we had to park in tandem - the novelty still hasn't worn off to be honest, it brings me great joy to park less than a few steps from the front door but maybe I need to get out more.

We live on the same street as a school and I have noticed that people closer to the school tend to park on the street so I assume its to stop people parking outside their house?

I also have to tell delivery drivers, food shop delivery etc. to pull onto the drive as they seem unsure so possibly they've have been told not to use peoples drives previously - absolutely bonkers.

Yeah I can’t be arsed at 11pm ish/ 5am to move a car off the drive just to get mine out and then park it back on. It be car goes on and the other parks across the road. I’m not pissing about swapping cars around.

We have a double drive to the side of our house, so one car in front of the other. The majority of the time we use it for both cars. Sometimes though if one of us is getting back and knows the other needs to leave first instead of blocking them in we’ll park in front of the house. I can’t see why anyone would choose not to put any car on the drive?!

DP and me do this! But no one in the street has said it’s an issue. I have a long narrow drive that fits one car in front of the other. DP leaves and comes home first. He parks on the road to let me drive into the drive. He does move his car to the drive after dinner, but that could be quite a few hours after I have come home. Sometimes he forgets

Pure laziness because they don’t like swapping cars around (or driving it into a garage). When we couldn’t afford a house with a double width drive we swapped around cars for years until we could buy our current house. We did our time, but that’s beneath other people apparently 🤷‍♀️

I love my drive too. We have 3 vehicles and could fit up to 4 on the drive, but tend to have two on the drive which can both get in and out without disturbing the other, and one on the road.

mostly people use their drive on my road, but the guy across the road use to get his car out every morning and park it outside his house then move it in every night 🤣

Having moved from a house with a drive to one without, we spent the last couple of year hating it! Most of the time could get parked outside within a couple of houses length which is fine but it always seemed to be when we needed to pack the car up with a load of stuff or unload a boot of shopping that we couldnt get parked anywhere near - sometimes several streets away, especially when the rugby club had something on.
We have lane at the back of the house which the garden backs on to and there all the houses garages face too so we rebuilt the falling down garage and had a driveway/parking wide enough for 3 cars laid. Best thing we have ever done!! Just the knowing you can come home, park and get inside. Been 6 months and still the novelty has not worn off!

Our neighbours use their drive overnight, but the husband gets up at the crack of dawn every morning without fail to put both their cars out on the road outside their house. Has done for the entire 18 years we've lived here. I reckon he got blocked in once and has never recovered from the trauma!

Ha, yes. I rented in London for 15 years. Had to park so far away from my house sometimes that I’d have to put the children in pushchairs when they were little to walk from car to home and do two trips with shopping.

I now live hundreds of miles away and own a house with a drive and Christ, the sheer joy of backing into the drive and emptying the boot into the hall still fills me with joy 5 years on.

I’m probably one of these people!

We have a drive with more than ample room to fit both our vehicles and get the doors open however, it’s a tandem drive and my DH gets home first but also leaves first in the morning so it just means we aren’t faffing moving vehicles about.

Right now for example our drive is empty and my car is on the road. It’s not inconveniencing anyone though, the road is wide.

Weekends though generally both vehicles are on the drive

We have 2 cars, one is on the drive and one in the road (residents parking). The house on the other side of the drive is extended right up to the boundary. If we drive one car right up between the two houses there isn’t enough room to open the door wide enough to get out.

I think another aspect is that too many people can't reverse, so don't want to risk damaging their car on the gate post etc when either reversing in or reversing out.

Nail on the head. We have two moronic neighbours who do exactly that. They only put their car on their drive if they have a visitor to their own home or tradesmen etc. Otherwise, they park centrally outside their house on the road in such a position that no one else can park because they'd be blocking overhanging their drives.

On the rare occasion that they've gone out and someone else (shock horror) has parked on the road in "their" space, they go ballistic - often knocking on neighbour's doors to try to find out where the driver is and "telling" (not asking) them to move it!

The weird thing is that one of them had a teenage daughter, who, a few years ago, started having house parties when she was 16-20 years old every few months and most of her "guests" came by car, causing chaos all over the road as they'd park on pavements, blocking drives, etc., and the mother would gave a load of abuse if any of the neighbours knocked on her door asking for a car to be moved that was blocking a drive!

One "rule" for her, a different "rule" for everyone else.

I occasionally park on the road although I have a drive . I live a few doors down from a school and if I dont park outside my house some parent will park across my drive and block me in .
Its also a main road and is sometimes easier to just pull out of my space instead of waiting for someone to let me out while I do numerous maneuvers to get out of the drive (our neighbours have 3 cars and 2 large vans) the vans are parked outside their house so I have limited visibility getting out of the drive .

Yep, I don't get this. If I ever get lucky enough to have a house with a drive, you bet I will be using it.

Oh we have someone who parks in the most awkward place right outside their drive (which is massive). People have to stop to let others through. Going to cause an accident one day cause its right
on the corner. They always have their gate open plenty of room for them. But they decide to block the road.

Suppose better than blocking the path like my other neighbours do. There's a guy in a wheelchair who always ends up on the road 🫣 . Nevermind me with my pram. Like do they have no shame?
The drive sits empty most the day. They have room for their two cars. It doesnt take much out of the day to do car jenga. But they must see the issues they cause.
I make sure when i have guests they have room to park on my drive.

Laziness? It’s sometimes easier to pull up outside the house than reverse onto the drive.

That's so weird that neither car use the drive!

We have a driveway that in theory fits two cars, but in reality was just way too tight (especially with getting the kids in and out of the car) so we used to park one car on the road and one on the driveway, but we only have one car now because of it!

My parent's friend doesn't park on her drive though as she doesn't like people parking outside her house, so she parks there instead!

My gran doesn’t use her drive mainly because others on the street don’t use theirs and so their vehicles on the path would make it really difficult for her to get off visibility wise. If they could all collectively agree to just all use their drives then life on their street would be much easier😂

My drive is very narrow and to leave enough space for me to get out means no room for a passenger to get in/out so I have to stop in the road, let them out (which if it's my very disabled dad takes a good while) and then get on the drive. It's also a ball ache getting the bins past. I generally do park on the drive when it's just me in and out but if there's space on the road right next to the driveway and I know I'll be taking someone else out very soon I'll go on the road instead. It's also only a one car drive so if I know I'm having visitors in a car I'll nab a space on the street so they can use the drive.

My drive is at the back of the house down a lane and can only be accessed by either going out the front and round or through my garden. Which is not really a problem but it’s just more convenient to park right outside my front door when I’m wrangling a toddler or disabled dad into the car. We are lucky here we aren’t lacking in on street parking, if we were I would absolutely use the drive more to accommodate my neighbours who don’t have drives.

I don't park on the drive if the kids are out on their bikes. You can't get the bikes out from the back garden when the car is on the drive and if they are in and out its easier to park on the street so generally in school holidays if I'm off work, I'll stick the car on the road as they are constantly in and out on their bikes

We have neighbours like that. Apparently they also come out and shout at you if you park on “their” bit of road outside their house too! (Not blocking their drive, just within sight of their house) It’s bizarre!

It’s lazy bastard syndrome OP. They can’t be arsed to take 2 mins to manoeuvre into their drive and would rather inconvenience everyone else.

We have to leave a car on the road despite our drive being the same width at the entry point as it is the whole way down due to the neighbours fucking parking overhanging so we can’t manoeuvre out as you need to swing to the side a bit and would hit our other car of it we’re parked on.