My parking is blocking his view!

[hidinginthenightgarden]

So, the neighbor has just asked DH to stop parking outside the house as it blocks his view! The front of our house joins the side of his house and apparently, that is where his lounge is. So when we park there, he can see our car from his chair and he doesn’t like it. DH explained that we have too small kids to get in and out of the car and so we won’t be parking further up the street and apparently we aren’t being neighbourly!
To be clear, we don’t park in front of his house, we park at the side which is also (partly) in front of our own house.
He has said he doesn’t want to have to phone the police? He is being ridiculous right?

@Drum2018 He's only asked her to park her car somewhere else, not told her to demolish her house or sacrifice her firstborn. Why think the worst of everyone? Recipe for a miserable life, that.

She is parking her car outside her own house, isn't that what most people do? If she moves it she will be parking outside someone else's house, and most likely blocking their view.

Are some of you actually saying you would get up at 5am to move your car as to not block someone's view of a neighbours house?
So what if op didnt have a car and someone else parked there
Is she supposed to find a rugby team to move the offenders car?
Mn is batshit sometimes

Nope, just be nice if it's in your gift! Why not?

Deadringer It depends a lot on how close the car is to the house, how wide the pavement is, whether there's a front garden, a small area or nothing at all except the pavement in front of the house. All those things will have a bearing on how overbearing a car parked in front of it would be or not.

Not all houses are exactly the same with the same amount of space in front of them. Could you be only picturing your own house?

And what happens if she does move the car to placate the soft in the heads here and then someone else parks their car in that space? Should there be a rota of MN wardens protecting his view? Bonkers .

Why are people moaning about OP's diagram? It's basic, but perfectly obvious what the situation is! She has two cars. One she parks in front of her own house and the second which she parks in front of NDN house. Hence the post. It's not at all hard to understand, taking OP's words and diagram together.

@ChardonnaysPrettySister
But how is the ndn compromising? He's not at all is he?! She can't park either side of his house without upsetting him. Because it means he can't look at a house opposite out of his window.

Why is the onus on the OP to do all the accommodating? Why is it okay for her to be upset about not being able to park in the empty public street outside her house. Because otherwise it means she has to physically lug stuff unnecessarily further and potentially leave her child out of sight in the car/house whilst she does so?

And then what if another neighbour parks in the same spot outside the man's house. Maybe because OP has used their usual parking space, should they find somewhere else to park too?

I think it's proper jokes that anyone would consider this a reasonable request.

Frankly it sounds like he's a pita so I imagine neighbourly relations will be limited regardless of the parking situation

YABVU Need a much better diagram with house doors, windows, pavements drives etc.

She's upset because the neighbour thinks (and will continue to think) she's unreasonable, because he didn't see her need as greater than hers and capitulate immediately. Her behaviour affects NDN. She doesn't care.

As per the conclusions of another thread, it's a little antisocial to have more cars than you can park without pissing other people off.

Two cars is normal.

Five cars and nowhere to park - yes, that pisses people off, but I don't really think you can chastise a working family for having 2 cars.

Also - a good proportion of the posters on this thread are genuinely bonkers. Or out for a fight. Or something.

It is a public road. Park where you want.

This thread is batshit. Park where you like, OP.

I think you could compromise with him sometime.

Your needs and quality of life dont trump his .

Its also not for you to sit in judgment on whether his request matters or not - it matters to him .

You lot are totally insane. It's a fucking public road! Park where the fuck you like. It's crackers to consider any part of a public (the clue is in the name) road as yours! Crackers, I tell thee.

It's a public road! Anyone could park there.

You could have a lot of fun with this, OP. By all means, continue to park where you are - legally and carefully - and buy a car cover. What you choose to print on it or decorate it with is up to you. I would personally go for a tasteful scene of Tabletop Mountain, but your toddler's handprints in florescent orange would work just as well.

Some of the posts on here are bonkers.

OP is parking legally on a public road. In reality, that's where the argument ends - he can ask, but she is not obliged to change anything.

How on earth do some posters think that NDN wanting to see the house across the road is more important than her right to park near her own house so she doesn't have to risk her DCs or lug bags of shopping further than necessary.

When you live in a house with public parking outside your house, you cannot moan that someone is parking in those spots! It comes as part of the deal with the house. It's like moving next to a church - you don't move next door to a church, then moan about the bells on a Sunday! Or next to a farm, and then complain about tractors moving around late/overnight/early or the smell of muck spreading. Or do some of you think those are ok too?

OP - park where you damn well like, as long as you are legally & reasonably parked, NDN is BU.

I love a parking thread. 🍿👀

Everyone going on about being 'neighbourly' is being ridiculous! The OP has lived there for years. This person moved in fairly recently and is being a whinging idiot.
The road is PUBLIC. He doesn't own it. He also doesn't own the right to a view of another house. The car isn't blocking out his light and quite frankly he needs to wind his neck in.
My dad does this. He gets so wound up about people parking on the road outside his house. In a place where he never parks. It doesn't affect any view for him - he just doesn't like it. It's bloody ridiculous. The bottom line is that some people can be very unreasonable about things like this.
Just carry on, OP. Let him call the police. There'll probably tell him off for wasting police time.

If you don't park there someone else will.
You've parked there for 6 years.
You don't even park there during the day.
If anyone should be ringing the police, it would be you. But unfortunately "being an arse" isn't a crime so they won't be all that interested.

I spent all of last weekend with a 50 odd seater coach encroaching on the drop down of my drive, parked partially on the pavement. That was annoying and meant I could only turn right off my drive, and taking my life in my hands as I did it.

That annoyed me, was still there when I left at 7.50 Monday morning. He got a ticket for being on the pavement, wasn’t me that reported him, although I was tempted.

The driver of a local school bus called the coach company warning about the ticket, and the company were rather rude, claimed it only arrived the Sunday, but regardless, I cannot stop them parking next to my drive, but I will report if dangerous

hidinginthenightgarden

What make you unreasonable in my eyes is that that you could park in front of your other neighbour but won't because they have children and you don't want to piss them off.

It is a public road. Park where you want.

In a nutshell from Oakmaiden

A friend of my DF bought a house in the middle of nowhere. He didn't want any new houses to spoil his view so he bought all the surrounding fields and leased them back to the farmer for a Peppercorn rent. (He has mega bucks).
THAT'S the only way you are entitled to a view - when you own it.