to think that if you live near a city centre you should expect this

[mileend2bermondsey]

I currently live about 10 miles from a big city which I work in. To save money on parking in the city centre at on average 8gbp per day I drive to the outskirts of the city, park on the closest street that does not have yellow lines and walk just over a mile into work. I was chatting to a friend about it who said I was lucky my car has been nicked (dodgy area) then goes on to say she'd be fuming if commuters parked on her street. My opinon is that if you chose to live on one of the first streets without parking restrictions, there are bound to be people who will park there to save money, same with living near a train station. I used to live in a terrace opposite a shopping precinct, during business hours you couldn't park on the street for love nor money. It was part and parcel of living in that particular location, I got on with it until I could move and consider such factors when moving since. I certainly wouldnt blame the drivers or key their cars over such a 'slight' as my friend thinks may happen.

YABU.

I live somewhere which is frequently used as free parking for the beach opposite just to save one poxy pound. Fucking cunts each and every single one especially as there clearly isn't even enough parking for the people who actually live here. I'd laugh if I looked out the window and saw someone keying a tourists car.

If you're parking somewhere where there's enough room left for residents then it's not so bad I s'pose.

YANBU. If it's open parking, it's available to everyone regardless of reason for use. I can understand it's annoying for residents though.

There's a difference here, I think:

If you buy or choose to move into a house (for example) which is near a school/church/shopping precinct, then you'd be U to complain people use cars to attend any of them.

However, if you buy or choose to move into a house and then the residents parking restrictions around you change (as has happened where I live), so you are SUDDENLY on the edge of free parking, and people park like cunts, are you being U? I'm not so sure. Ditto if a (for example) church/school/shopping centre is erected/opened near you.

So to the OP, depends for me on which of the situations it is.

People get ever so territorial about parking, don't they? But their wasting their time. Part and parcel - live near a town/city/CPZ, you'll get cars parked and that's just one if those things. You own/rent the property, not the public areas around it.

I think it's a pisstake. People should always be able to park outside their own houses. I live in a village on the main drag into it and it's a free for all outside my house it's bloody annoying when you have kids, baby etc to get out of a car, not to mention dangerous when you can't park outside and you have to park across the road then cross it with young kids inc a 3 year old with no road sense. You say tough shit people know the game when they buy or live in the house, you also knew you would have to pay for parking when you bought a car and decided to work in the city!

you also knew you would have to pay for parking when you bought a car and decided to work in the city!
I dont have to pay for parking though do I? I park on a public road with no parking restrictions instead.

It depends, do you park in their drives? like 2 parents from a school near mine did because it was empty and there was no where else to stop DAFUQ!!

I don't have a problem with people parking on the road in front if my house if they are nipping to the school or a building near by. I would be entirely pissed off if someone parked their wagon outside my front door and disappeared on a bus, for a whole day, 5 days a week

Yanbu. If people don't like the parking situation on their road they need to speak to the council. Not your circus, not your monkeys.

If you are parking on a public road and adhering to the law, then YANBU.

Finding parents on your driveway during the school run is

But you should have to pay, you only don't because you are parking outside someone's house.. I did chuck dogshit on a car outside mine one day when I was pissed off just saying..

Park where you like as long as it's legal. Part and parcel of living in a house with on-street parking.
I say this as someone who spent all her adult life with on-street parking. Yes, it's a bugger when you can't park outside your own house but there's nothing you can do about it.
And the poster upthread who would be amused to see tourists' cars keyed is a real charmer. I've been to many places where I've arrived unprepared and found I've not got coins for the crappy little Pay and Display machines that don't give change. I don't tend to carry much cash round with me. Faced with a drive to a cashpoint then a shop to get change from a tenner, or parking legally for free on a street, I think you could guess which I'd do. If it's such a desperate problem ask your council to make a residents' parking zone and apply for a permit, or perhaps move to a less touristy area where you could have the entire street and beach to yourself.

Yanbu, if people care so much they should buy/ rent a house with a drive.

I live on a fairly busy rd not too far from some shops. We have 2 cars, one in the drive and ideally one outside. If it's legal to park I accept that.
Have a friend who lived on a terracedstreet that was was parallel to a main road, the same person parked outside her front door Mon to Fri amd it drove her mad

Just cos something's legal, doesn't make it right!
I hope you at least vary where you park OP and don't make one poor sod's life a pita having to stare at your car out their window all the live long day.
I agree with the pp about the dog shit.

some woman regularly parks across my driveway when dropping her kids at the childminder a few doors away....didnt say anything for ages, but came back from shopping one day and she had parked right across again....i parked across the road and struggled carrying shopping in....she was there for ages...i went out when she was out there and said politely 'can you please not park across my driveway' (have a dropped kerb)...she said wheres your fu@@ing car then'...i told her across the road....she went absolutely ballistic swearing, shouting sticking her fingers up at me....i smiled and said 'nice way to behave in front of your children'....with that she went even more mental...she moved her car and i went to move my car on to the drive and she stood in the road not letting me pass...foul mouthed, gesturing, i just ignored her making a spectacle of her self...when i eventually parked she was still out there mouthing off half an hour later...i dont know why she didnt just go home...this seems the norm for this childminders parents as another one regularly parks across a disabled neighbours driveway...the cant appear to be able to walk very far, park properly or be considerate to others....i didnt mind her parking in front of my home just not over the driveway!...

Oh AndNowItsSeven if only it was that easy!

I live in a very small culdesac which is just off a road that has a chemist and a chippy on it. There is a big car park just across the main road from the entrance to this road, so to get to the chemist/chippy you can park up, cross a (not very busy) road and you are pretty much there. But I still come out regularly to find cars parked across my drive blocking me in, or (worse) actually outside the chemist but stopped so that they are actually blocking the entrance to the whole street.

It's not illegal, but it is infuriating.

In our case they don't park and run but there is a constant stream of them between 9-5 for the chemist and 11-2 then 5-9 for the chippy.

I have challenged a few, and they always say "but I'm only here for a minute". Well that's fine, but your minute (which is anything up to 15 if you're waiting for a prescription) is going to make me late for wherever I need to be - why is your time more important than mine?

Grr

YANBU. I used to live on a street with free parking, round the corner from Clapham Junction station I could just hop on a train in the morning - others had to drive, then scrabble for a parking space before doing the same.

If I needed to use the car during the day I would double-park to un/load my stuff, then move on. You don't own the road space outside your house.

Blocking drives with dropped kerbs is out of order, obviously.

Of course I'd rather be able to park outside my own house, but I don't actually own the road or pavement, so it's a moot point. I do think people get quite precious about what is a public space and being inconvenienced.

Of course, people parking on, or blocking a driveway is not on, or blocking a road etc. I don't blame the OP for wanting to save £120 a month.

I am in this situation. I love about 20 mins walk from a city centre. We have residents parking in the week but a free for all at the weekend.

It's a public space so fine. But it annoys me that there is a very good park and ride nearby. Why don't people use it? Because they're lazy.

YANBU legally. But you are being selfish. The people you inconvenience WNBU to let your tyres down a few times.

Yanbu op. If it's a problem the residents can petition the council and get their street included in the rpz. If you pay your taxes you have as much right to park on a bit of unrestricted publicly owned road as anyone else.

It's not always as simple as "buy a house with a driveway". We have a driveway, but since they changed the parking costs in town at the same time as they allowed the new shopping outlet to build a cinema on half of their carpark our street is now viewed as a public car park by people who don't want to spend £3 there for parking. Trying to get onto or off that driveway because of the shitty parking of tightwads has become a nightmare.

And when DH and his late first wife bought this house it was "out of town" and when I moved in 10 years ago it was still in a quiet area on the outskirts of slightly bigger town. The new houses, shopping centre, cinema, even the train station being changed from a tiny station to a busy park and ride (that a lot of people who park on my street won't pay £1 for) has happened since we were here.

YANBU Clearly a decision has to be made about where the sensible cut-off is for a regulation to control over-crowded parking. The council has made a decision and you are sticking to the regulations.

I used to drive my son to a music lesson in London once a week. There is SO much resident's parking, half of it empty during the day, and very few places I can park. I don't even mind paying, but it is almost impossible to find a visitor parking space.

I grew up in NYC where there is no resident's parking. No one expects to be able to park right outside their house: the idea is laughable. Everyone has to search for a space and walk, often quite far, back to their house. BIG DEAL. This is what happens in an urban area. I just don't understand why people get so worked up about this.

If you're parking legally on a street with no restrictions, not blocking anyone's driveway or from getting to their house, that's fine IMO. People who live on that street do not own the space outside their house. On a Sunday, my street is full of people parking going to the nearby church, doesn't bother me at all, I park further away.
Throwing dogshit on someone's car because you can't have the exact space you want on a street where anyone is allowed to park is revolting.