AIBU to get annoyed that a two-car household seems the norm these days?

[Abitlikechicken]

AIBU to hope I can get my (only) car out of the drive in less than a 200 point turn to get to work. A parking space or drive is provided with every house on our street but because everyone else is a two-car household, they're all double-parked up and down the street. Most days I have to push the pram up the middle of the road as everyone mounts their cars on the pavement. It pisses me off slightly when where we live is so well-connected public transport wise and guests visiting us have to come by foot as there's nowhere to park!

Two car? if only. Majority round here have at least two mid 20's children all with cars - so a 4 -5 car household is normal. Everyone has bricked over the front garden to accommodate 3 cars, the other one-two fight for the spare place next to a lamp post.

YABU. This has nothing to do with two car households and everything to do with your nieghbour's inconsiderate parking. At least you have a drive.

We are a two car household because we both cover extensive areas for work, but I know that sometimes I can't even park on my street. That is fine.

We have 2 cars.

When I lived at my parents', we had 5 cars on the drive..sometimes many, many more if friends/boyfriends were staying.

This is one of my daily irritations too.

Would love to get rid of one of our cars. It would save us a fortune. Sadly our home, both jobs and DS's CM/preschool are all in different locations. That's modern life for you. We do park both cars on the drive though.

Would love to get rid of one of our cars. It would save us a fortune. Sadly our home, both jobs and DS's CM/preschool are all in different locations. That's modern life for you. We do park both cars on the drive though.

When I'm First Minister of Scotland I'll send a directorate to local councils stating that no household may have more cars than will fit on to their own driveway!

i get irritated with our next door neighbours visitors who always park over our drive way (blocking us in!!)
why the don't park over the drive way of the people they are visiting or better still in a vacant place?! It really really pisses me off!

I agree this is more to do with inconsiderate parking. We have two cars, as both of us work different times at wildly different locations, as public transport here is dire. One car is parked on the drive and the other outside our house, usually mine as it's smaller and means that next door, who also have two cars, can also get one on their drive and one outside their house. It's just a friendly agreement and ensures we all can park.

We don't have a driveway. Bloody selfish Victorians weren't forward thinking enough...

We have a nice garden instead, with bushes, trees, a lawn and plenty of places for mice to hide

I park on the street and there's enough room for others to drive past.

YABU - how else are people supposed to get to work?

i used to live in a cul de sac of 6 houses

we had 18 cars (+ 2 motorbikes) in this cul de sac! (but 6 garages, 11 drive way spaces and plenty of off road parking!)

All the houses on our side of the road have space in the drive for two cars.

We have two cars.
The house on the right has two work vans and between 0 and 2 cars.
The house on the left has three cars. Four if a girlfriend stays over, which she often does.
The next house has four cars.
The one across the road from them has 2 cars, and he's a mechanic so they often have another two.
The one next to them has two cars. But they usually have at least one other person over who parks on the pavement.

Everyone having ONLY two cars would make a big difference to our street!

We live in a village. Cars are really pretty necessary to get around here, but the numbers on our street are quite excessive.

Sounds hideous OP. I know very few families with two cars, in fact I'd say less than half have a car at all (we live in central London, where parking/congestion charge/insurance/rising petrol costs makes it a daft choice when you're five minutes from a tube). We do have inconsiderate people at the bus stop clogging up the pavements though, they seem to think it's acceptable to push a buggy up the road too!

When single people have to share a car with a neighbour, you can complain about two car households. I may be married but I am an individual with my own job to get to, my own family to visit etc. I can appreciate the parking sounds poor, but just because people share a home does not mean they should give up all independence.

Not suggesting anyone gives up their independence, just thinks outside the box - and of others - when they consider their transport needs...it's not great for the environment to live like this.

YABU. People don't tend to have cars unless they need them. I agree the problem is selfish parking rather than households having too many cars.

lots of things arnt great for the environment, but people do them anyway

flying / disposable nappies for example (disposable anything actually)

Have a word with town planners who still grant planning applications for housing only giving 1 car parking space - especially in areas where the demographic is for two or more cars!

For older housing YABU - theres no a lot of other options out there. But yeah feel free to rant and rave about new builds all you like. I'm with you on that one.

Our Close looks like and NCP car park most evenings. We have 3 cars, but I'm the only person on the Close to keep my hobby car in the garage, but my work car and DH's work car are on our drive. My neighbours opposite have 4 cars and a work van.

Your home area being well connected transport wise is fuck all use if the places you need to visit frequently are not. We are a two car household, we do live in the arse of beyond though. We were considering giving up a car and getting DH a Nike to cycle to the train station (5 miles) to get the train to work in the city, instead of driving to the station. However, he's mow being considered for promotion and move to a location not served by a train, and with slow and unreliable bus service, so he's going to have to keep the car.

YANBU. My dream is for my DCs to grow up in a world in which having two cars is as rare as it was when I was a child. From my perspective as a non-driver by choice, the need for the second car often follows its acquisition and doesn't precede it, and the idea that cars = independence isn't necessarily true. I'm no prisoner in my home.

I can see a case for two on rural areas, but a lot of people in the city where we live make a lot of excuses to try and dress choices up as necessity.

Well it would be lovely to only have one car taking up one space on our residential, Victorian street but in a world with shite public transport and the necessity of 2 jobs to afford the (frankly crappy) lifestyle we've become accustomed to in our damp, slug infested house with woodwork - it ain't going to happen.

YABU - no-one would put up with the price of petrol/diesel, car insurance, car tax, buying costs and depreciation, MOTs, repairs, replacing tyres, etc., if they didn't feel they needed a car. There are just too many times every week when dh and I need to be in different places, which can't easily be reached by public transport I'm afraid. Not everybody is able to get where they want, when they want, having dropped off whoever at wherever, by public transport!