to park my car on a residential street for two weeks and walk two miles to the airport

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Is any there anything legally / morally wrong with this? I would save almost 50 just for a short walk..

YABU agree with Grateful.

I bet OP and her ilk don't tip either. Is it national tight git week on MN?!

Where is this very posh place where a 7 year old muddy Punto would stand out in winter so much when parked on a street?

It sounds absolutely bizarre. Surely in such a neighbourhood, everyone will have off street parking anyway? Or at least a valet who comes out and parks your car for you!

Chandler - yes, they can park where they like. However, if you'd quoted all of that particular post, the consequences of people doing what they like (in this situation) is explained. As I've already said - what you can do legally and what you should morally do if you don't want to irritate others are sometimes 2 different things.

I can never understand people who start threads in AIBU when they've already made their minds up prior to posting that they were NBU and where planning on doing whatever it was anyway. It's very odd.

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*Where is this very posh place where a 7 year old muddy Punto would stand out in winter so much when parked on a street?

It sounds absolutely bizarre. Surely in such a neighbourhood, everyone will have off street parking anyway? Or at least a valet who comes out and parks your car for you!*

Look at the photo snotty posted, any car that's not usually therewould stick out like a sore thumb parked in that street for 2 weeks.

I can't believe how many people are getting their knickers in a twist over this. I used to live in West London near the Picadilly line with trains to Heathrow. I remember someone knocking on my door one evening and asking if I'd left my keys in the door of the BMW parked outside. It wasn't my car, but offered to take the key and left a note on the windscreen for the driver who return a week later - he'd parked up to get the train to Heathrow. I just didn't have a problem with that. We had no off-street parking and no residents permits either, but I knew that when we moved into the house and you have to accept that anyone can park on the street. Rather that than paying through the nose for residents parking then having nowhere for visitors to park. In fact a subsequent introduction of residents parking has just about finished off some the shops which used to thrive in that area. Parking is an absolute racquet - I don't blame anyone for trying to avoid swingeing charges. Airports should provide free parking - so should hospitals for that matter. How else are you supposed to get to most of these places? (Well actually I never drove to Heathrow I always got the tube, but if you live outside London that's not really an option). To all those people moaning on about having their own parking space on a public road I'd say get over yourselves. If having your own space is that important then live somewhere with allocated parking - downsize, move to a cheaper area whatever it takes. OP where you are proposing to park doesn't look as if it has a parking problem anyway - there is hardly a car to be seen. As long as you park legally I wouldn't worry about it.

How are you supposed to get to an airport? Taxi/lift/train/tram/bus/drive yourself there and pay to park? Since when is it the airport's responsibility for how you get to your flight?

Oh - and hospital parking charges (whilst nowhere near comparable to airports) and free in 2 out of the 4 UK countries.

Sorry tiggy - you're quite right. It would be parking on a public road. But apart from changing the word 'private' to 'public', I still stand by the rest of that comment -
I think you would be massively unreasonable to park any aged car (in any condition) on a public road for 2 weeks.

What Lillian said. And yes kerala I tip generously. Whatever that had to do with it!

While I don't agree with the posters who struggle for parking and like to park outside their house I can at least see where they are coming from. The ones who would find a car offensive just by being there even though there is loads of parking- wtf is that all about?

I regularly park on a residential street to go to uni. It saves me £5 a day. I never block drives or park dangerously or illegally. I think this is absolutely fine but I'm sure someone is about to tell me otherwise!

I must admit if the parking is plentiful I have no issue, it's when the parking is really tight that it annoys me. Parking then should be for residents of the street and permit only if required.

And there is a HUGE difference between someone leaving their car for two hours and another leaving it for two weeks.

Doesn't matter how old a car is, I wouldn't risk it as I rely on my car. I'd want to know it was safe either by my house or in a secure car park.

There was a long and heated thread where people justified their reasons for not tipping in restaurants

Umm, yes I tip too and I'm not tight either .

Bristol Airport has been there for a long while, don't you think that the residents of the road posted earlier would have arranged for parking restrictions IF they were bothered about the odd car parked in their street.

Wtf your calling me a bad tipper for not wanting to pay huge parking fees. I started that other thread.

Ha ha. Just realised the OP is planning to park near to where I used to live.

If it doesn't get broken into and vandalised during those two weeks, I'll be a monkey's uncle.

The Airport bus is every twenty minutes into town and doesn't cost very much at all.

CelticPromise The difference with the type of parking that you do for Uni vs what the OP is proposing that she does is that you park for the day and by that evening your car is gone. I don't think anyone would have an issue with that. What the OP is suggesting she does is park for a fortnight and leave her car for that duration completely unattended in order to save herself between 30 to 50 quid.

I would think that the two situations while involving parking on public roads, are completely different.

SirChenjin However, if you'd quoted all of that particular post, the consequences of people doing what they like (in this situation) is explained.

Some of which sound illegal and more like veiled threats. The "consequences of people doing what they like", eh? When its legal, and involves public property, which all of us contribute towards, they have every right to do so.

What is the bit about public road that people don't understand? Or in your property ends at your garden, and then public property, usually pavement, followed by public road, begins. Not an extension of your home, but there for everyone to use, subject to the laws that apply.

I think I must have become invisible.
I don't expect to park outside my house or necessarily near it.
I expect to park a street away sometimes.
I don't expect to be unable to park on the road I live in for two weeks because random people have left their cars there to avoid using a car park.

Ninja what road is near where you lived?

The airport bus is a huge inconvenience as would have to drive past the airport, into Bristol. Park up then go back south of the city.

Oh for fuck's sake. You've made your mind up. Some people agree with your right to park where you like and never mind the consequences for two weeks for those who don't have a house with off road parking. What more do you want people to say?

Sooty if the OP parked in the road posted below I dont think any of the residents would have any problem at all parking their own cars in front of their own houses. The only objection that's left is that the residents would have to look at the OPs car. A 7 year old punto is hardly offensive despite what some posters think

Of course there's nothing wrong with it. I live on a street of uptight little Hitlers who will come out and tell off anyone who parks in front of their house - even though it's open, public, free parking! We are not talking disabled spaces or permits. Free. Parking.

If I come home with a car full of shopping and small kids, and the space in front of my house is taken (which I am totally fine with because it's FREE PARKING and anyone should park where they like) I can't then park in the neighbouring space to unload because my life will not be worth living. I have to drive round the block and find somewhere else that is not in front of one of my neighbour's houses. It sucks. It is a very nice street and the people here think they are sooooooo genteel and upper crust, but they are selfish, bullying twats who are legally in the wrong. Can't wait to move.

I would applaud anyone who came and parked here for two weeks BECAUSE IT'S THEIR RIGHT. I would twitch my curtains and laugh at my uppity neighbours going apoplectic over someone parking where they are totally allowed to.

I don't care what the OP ''s car looks like and I wouldn't care about that if she parked it on my street. I object to the message from some posters that if you don't buy a house with off road parking and rent in a terraced street that it's fine for random people to park there for two weeks and you should suck up having to park a distance away for long periods of time to accommodate their right to park where they want.

Zoom not all of us who think the OP is selfish expect to park outside their houses or even in the same street all the time.