Is this a reasonable amount of space to leave between cars?

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I thought the grey car should have been able to get out (there’s room for them to go back a bit too) but I’ve just been sworn at and threatened to hit my car.

Too close

Well this thread explains why the twats park with 1/2 a car length in-between, this reducing the number of cars that can park!

Plenty of space to get out of there was similar behind as well. Silver car should hand in their licence or do a refresher course if they can't get out of there.

The problem is that if the car moves from behind the grey car and another inconsiderate person parks so close, it's going to be virtually impossible/very hard for them to move.

But that’s not the blue car’s fault - it would be the new car making it difficult

Well this thread explains why the twats park with 1/2 a car length in-between, this reducing the number of cars that can park!

Which is way more annoying than close parking!

The problem is that if the car moves from behind the grey car and another inconsiderate person parks so close, it's going to be virtually impossible/very hard for them to move

Is it normal to park thinking about what other hypothetical cars might do?

That's the other person's fault, though, not OP's.

No, not really. Turning circle on some cars isn't great. I wouldn't be happy if the silver car was mine.

Well gee - and you'd have massively contributed! That was some amazing logic you applied there, OP. I'm guessing it was the same logic that allowed you to park like that 🙄.
And just in case I didn't actually say it, yes, it's ridiculously close. I'm surprised your eyes didn't tell you that.

Has no one on here parked in a European city?!

Or even in a normal UK town?!

@tumblingdowntherabbithole presumably they all have drives & only park in car parks 😆

Very inconsiderate parking by blue.

There’s room behind the silver car - they can reserve a little and drive out…….if another car parks behind them when the current car leaves and is super close - how is that the blue car’s fault? When the blue car parked this room and the front and behind. Same as if there was nothing behind the silver car and then someone parked really close, how can that be the blue car’s fault? Not sure on your logic?

Isn't it normal to manoeuvre out of a parking space? Or do most people here just drive out?

Of course it's normal. It's only in MN land where everyone is expected to park in a way where everyone can just drive off without any hassle

MN is the land of people paying for jigsaws with several pieces missing (still confused by that thread 😯) and leaving huge metre-long gaps when parking (which ironically is my pet peeve as that means others can't get a parking space if some Mumsnetter has taken up 1.5 spaces to be "polite").

The only place I ever park on the street is outside one of DDs activities, and even then, most of the parking bays ate two cars long (although many that's park right on the middle taking up two spots). Depending where you live, that might be a common scenario!
Local town centre has no on street parking, you have to park in the (extortionate) car parks and oddly the town centre is dying.

Plenty of room. Much better than leaving half a car space in front and behind which is a bug bear of mine.

It's very close - not so close that they wouldn't be able to get put with a few backwards and forwards, but still close. Was there really no way you could have left an extra bit?

I rarely need to park on the street as everyone I know has a drive or I go in a carpark or parking area, but when I pick up my granddaughter from school I park on the street, and no one parks that close, everyone leaves enough space so you can drive out without having to manoeuvre.
The world of parking that close and needing to manoeuvre to get out is completely alien to me.

@Buxusmortus you would have to park on a different road to your house in parts of London if everyone left space to drive out without manoeuvring.

If you want it to be simple then sure, it'd be the fault of 'the other inconsiderate person'. I kind of still like the idea of it being the fault of whoever considerably increased the probability of them not being able to drive out.

People on here seem to like to argue in extremes. There are other options between bumper to bumper and gap the size of the bus and it's not leaving half a car length either side either.
Personally I'd like to only have to reverse once to manouvre out. Anything more than having to shunt it twice and it's too close imo.

Personally I'd like to only have to reverse once to manouvre out.

For many of us this is just not an option though because of no drives for example.

I think this is another example of how middle class MN can be - where everyone has a driveway or lives on nice, spacious roads with private parking bays.

Whereas in reality most people have on-street parking and have to cram their cars in on one side of the road otherwise they end up parking several streets away.