AIBU to want to park outside my house

[lifeisshort]

We have just moved house and the other neighbours park all over the place. nobody seems to park outside their own homes, I personally would like to I know I have no right to a certain spot but surely its common sense to park outside your own house and not other people's.

YABU and are perpetuating the 'neighbour parking dispures' that cause so much misery. You have no right to a spot on the public highway and if the space outside your house is occupied, just park somewhere else with good grace. Honestly, I get this all the time at work and it drives me mental. People are such are such arseholes sometimes.

Getting on the phone wont do any harm Mephis, they wont know it was you that reported them and the police do do local patrols.....just saying

this really is a SMALL town, Bogeyface. We don't get police patrols. Nearest manned police station is 45min drive away.

For anything other than violent crime we get sent a community police officer - who is nice but rather drippy and ineffective. They would definitely know it was me!

I used to live on a road where everyone parked anywhere, and a lot of people parked there to go to the chippy on the corner, so I often had to park one or two streets away. I was never particularly bothered because it had always been that way.

Now I live on a road where everyone parks outside their own house and I am used to having the spot directly in front of my house. There is a church opposite though, and whenever there is a service or millions like at Easter I can't park anywhere near my house and get irrationally angry about it. I am and at myself!

I used to live on a road where everyone parked anywhere, and a lot of people parked there to go to the chippy on the corner, so I often had to park one or two streets away. I was never particularly bothered because it had always been that way.

Now I live on a road where everyone parks outside their own house and I am used to having the spot directly in front of my house. There is a church opposite though, and whenever there is a service or millions like at Easter I can't park anywhere near my house and get irrationally angry about it. I am and at myself!

Oh, so yanbu to want to park there, but there isn't much you can do about it!

YANBU. I have a driveway and although my neighbours don't actually block it, they do park so close to it that I have to do a million-point manouevre to get into it. Bastards.

We can't afford a house with a drive way but we are going to apply for permission off the council to make one in our front garden. At our previous house everyone parked outside their house and if they had a second car the parked were there was no houses. We just believed this was an unwritten law thing everywhere. We have 2 cars and my partner is parking at the end no matter what the but gets really annoyed that I can't park outside because our 2 youngest are still in only 6 weeks old and it is difficult in every way for me with them and 2 2year olds

Lifeisshort have you ever spoken to your neighbours and asked them
If they could near in mind your situation?? Are they aware of it??

NBU to want it. Slightly BU to think that you can guarantee it.

It would be nice if others were more considerate and let you (and me!) park outside our own home but we're probably not the center of their universe.

I gave up parking rants as being detrimental to my overall sanity

Since the council won't bring in resident's parking in this smallish town, and have just hiked the cost of an annual longstay carpark permit to over £1200 a year, I can never find anywhere to park in office hours less than 10 minutes walk away. Meanwhile nearly a hundred spaces in the town centre are empty all day everyday as no-one can afford to use them.
Lifted off Wiltshire Gazette and Herald website, published yesterday morning...

Parking -

Car parking revenue in Wiltshire has become so low that parking attendants are not being replaced when they leave the council.

Wiltshire Council?s updated business plan shows that the increases in parking charges in April last year have dramatically affected its income.

As less people use the car parks the burden on the council?s budget has increased.

The car parking services team spent £1.215million more than it had budgeted for at the year end in March 2012.

Councillor Jon Hubbard, leader of the Liberal Democrat group, who opposed the recent car parking fees rise, said: ?The spiral of failure continues. Not only do we have a large deficit due to this irresponsible charging policy but more jobs are being cut. We can expect more misery for residents as anti-social parking gets worse.?

Council bosses will take some comfort from news that the latest loss is £185,000 less than previously thought.

Yea we have and they say they will give me more room but never do. I may have to speak to them again

We live next door to neighbours who have a young baby plus 2 young children. They have never had to ask us, we always leave space for them to park after witnessing her struggle to bring baby, children and shopping down the road once!!

This thread is terrifying. We don't have a car, partly because we live next to a school and parking is a nightmare.

I can understand needing to park outside your house if you have small children but otherwise I do think it is unnecessary. I once saw my neighbour, who parks outside my house, move his car from two houses up to outside his own house, as the space was unavailable when he came home. He must have sat and waited until his space was free, but his car was only 40 feet away from his house!

On another note, if you do park or drive near a school can I ask you to be careful, as the kids and me have nearly been run over twice by distracted drivers and it is very scary

'We just believed this was an unwritten law thing everywhere' Therein lies the problem. That is purely an assumption. You do not have any more right than anyone else on a public highway.

I sympathise having coped for years in a similar situation ie twins, toddler, bags and a ton of shopping.

I'm lucky enough to have a drive so don't need to part on the road but if ever I have visitors, they park outside my house. The man opposite then leaves little notes on their windscreen asking them not to park opposite his house as it makes it difficult to get his car out of his drive. It doesn't - it's a fairly wide road and he has a very small car. He's just a nervous driver. I have repeatedly told him to just knock on the door and we'll move the car for him right away but he insists on leaving the notes. One visitor helpfully tried parking with two wheels on the grass verge to give him more space but he got a note telling him off for parking on a verge! There's just no pleasing some people.

'We just believed this was an unwritten law thing everywhere'

No. It's not. HTH.

We have a double garage, full of stored stuff in the Australian way, a carport with room for 3 cars, drive for 1 car, and room for 2 outside on the pavement, and I STILL get peeved if someone parks outside our house. This is a quiet, spacious suburban street. I am an arse.

All my neighbours do the same. It's bloody silly, but the unwritten law is don't park outside your neighbours unless you absolutely have to.

I would never complain, because then I would be an even bigger arse.

When we lived in London where no-one had a drive or garage, we couldn't have cared less where we or anyone else parked. It's all about imagined domain.

If it is a public highway what is the problem?

My neighbour moves his car 10 feet when anyone shifts their car. He and his wife are arseholes fruitloops though.

If you want to park outside your own house, buy one with a drive?

We used to live in Fulham, one road outside the "residents only on match day" restrictions for Fulham Football Club. There was no way you dared move your car on match day mornings or you would never be able to find a space within about half a mile post about 1pm!

Dont get me started on this one! Have just moved house and there is no parking out side of my house. There was a garage with the house but its now privately rented as the previous tenants didnt want to pay the £10 each week as they didnt have a car. You have to hope and pray there is a space when you get home in the evenings. I know its not a given right to park outside your house but having to park miles away is so bloody annoying!

Life is too short!