To silently fume at new neighbours over parking?

[Nokidsnellie]

We moved to a new house in November with only on-street parking outside. Limited spaces but public highway.
We currently have a broken car which we are waiting for the scrap man to collect (won't start) and park our second car near that.
Our neighbours are knocking on our door constantly to move the car, saying basically we're BU having two cars when they only have one. We don't park in the space outside their house to be considerate.

Having lived in London and other parking-nightmare places, I just feel it's first up best dressed. If there were no spaces we would park up the road and not moan. That's life.

Just don't need the petty squabbles with a new neighbour tbh!

Our neighbours have 4 large cars (they are 4 adults - couple in their early 60s, their adult daughter and her husband all live together). They have a 2 car drive but keep it free with the gates wired up for their chihuahua... I once posted about them parking all 4 cars in the street including immediately in front of our house and leaving a note on my car asking me to move my car when I parked my car in front of their house once and was told I was BU as they weren't breaking any laws ...

You must be annoying to your neighbours, having a scrap car parked in the street 24/7. However I don't think they have any grounds to keep asking your to move either of your cars unless spaces are allocated or its residents permit parking and you only have one permit.

I imagine you are both equally annoying to one another.

Many households do have legitimate reason for 2 cars though - if there is no or very limited public transport in your area it can be a massive PITA not to have a car, and sharing doesn't work if you both work a long way from home in different directions... having 2 cars doesn't in itself make you unreasonable, though the fact one of them is scrap therefore permanently lodged in a space and taking a long time to get rid of would wind a lot of people up!

GruntledOne, the OP said their cars are not parked in front of the neighbour's house (which you seem to consider the neighbour's space - it isn't).

Ruthiesj, no, I don't consider the space near the neighbour's house as belonging to the neighbour in the legal sense, as I think I made clear when I pointed out that in legal terms OP can park as many cars in the road as she likes. I was simply referring to "their space" as shorthand. And we come back to the issue of doing what is legal against doing what is considerate: there are times when standing on your legal rights is the act of an arsehole. After all, the neighbour could argue that, while it's legal for OP to park wherever she like, it's also legal for the neighbour to complain about it. OP does not need to leave a broken down car in the road and therefore can remedy the problem very easily - at the same time remedying her own problem of the neighbour constantly whinging at her.

@cleansheets - we have the scrap car, another car we had to get last weekend to replace scrap car and OH's work car. He works away - a lot - in far away lands so we both need a working car. Fairly rural where we live.

So this isn't a 'poor me, no place to park my Bentley' post - we spent £650 on the replacement car lol. And OH's car belongs to his work.

So you've got 3 cars?

Just to clarify, scrap car doesn't look like Onslow's pride & joy, the ignition has gone is all. And it's been a week - we are trying to sort it!

I just don't get it. He once asked me to move the car back by 2 feet as it was overlapping his house. In the middle of our dinner.

Letseat yes at theme, but one parked away. So not the issue.

OP you can have as many cars as you want...and one of them can be a Bentley if you want. Being able to afford, or needing/choosing to have, more than one car (of any age, make or value) is perfectly okay in most people's world.
Who spends their precious life begrudging other people for having what they themselves don't have?!

I guess the answer to my last question is 'the type of person who somehow thinks they own the road outside their house.'

Apparently CleanSheets does!

Just for info, and nothing to do with whether YABU or YANBU, but we used a charity to get rid of our car. They arranged for a dealer to take away (my pride and joy) and a donation was made to our nominated charity. Anyone interested, you can just googled car+scrap+charity and find someone. We didn't have to do anything except hand over the appropriate paperwork.

You can park 20 cars if you want as long as they're parked legally. If they can park outside their house what on earth is their problem?

Don't lose any sleep over what your neighbour thinks. They're not worth it. As a pp said, they're parking arseholes. Next time they come knocking on your door just tell them how offensive you find their behaviour, and not to come round again.

I would be sorely tempted to park right outside their house every time there's space.

Your neighbours sound bit pathetic, in this instance.

My neighbour is like this.

I had a fault with my power. He kicked off because he was asked to move his car so the digger wouldn't damage it and could dig up the street. The road is quiet, very few cars, he had to move it back about 5 feet

He complained when my visitors (for DSs birthday) parked outside the house. 3 cars all parked tidily out side. At this point he wasn't driving, had no car but still complained we parked outside because 'my visitors have a right to park outside my house'

He kicked off when my mothers car broke down outside his house. It was there for 2 days while we waited for a part on order to fix it.

He kicked off the bin men piled the bin bags after xmas into 'his space'

I get a lot of kicks these days from deliberately parking outside his house. My guests do too. After all, its a public highway, no road markings and we have a right to park where there is a space.

He stands there hands on hips scowling. So funny but totally bonkers because he doesn't own a car!

Bettyberry that's crazy! I can get irrationally irritated sometimes but just don't get the parking thing. Yes it's annoying if I've just done a full shop and have to trudge it 5 mins up the road, but c'est la vie. It happens here quite regularly, we don't say anything.

I just think knocking on our door every 5 mins is very U. Especially when the space outside his house is free!

YANBU They sound like utter prats.

I would refuse to answer the door to them to be honest. The space outside their house isn't theirs and you aren't parking there anyway.

I used to live in a Victorian terrace and nobody would have dreamt of this kind of behaviour. If someone asked me to move my car a few feet so they could park, I would happily agree. It sounds like your neighbours have ishoos if they are asking you to move so they are exactly outside their house.

Ignore!

My neighbour is a bit loopy. He hates my DS making a noise in the garden. I'm hoping our 'normal family life' will annoy him enough to move. He's in his 70s and hates that kids play football in the field opposite our houses. He threw a massive wobbly at some kids - not mine - who were having a hell of a time throwing freshly cut grass at each other. I had to step in and tell him to wind his neck in. but the parking... Its obsessive. I haven't even mentioned the fun when it comes to wheelie bins!

Anyway, you can park where you like on your road. I'd personally print out a copy of the highway code and highlight the bits about parking right. If your neighbour complains again politely point out that you are not doing anything wrong but if they genuinely think you are then they have the right to pursue it further with the appropriate authorities

My brother used to live in a house opposite a retired couple who regularly complained when he parked his company van (very good clean condition ) on his drive because it spoiled their view (of my brothers garage! ). They also complained that when he came home after dark and reversed onto his driveway his headlights shone into their living room because they wouldn't close their curtains because they liked to know what was going on so they could complain about it.

yabu. just because 'you can' doesn't mean you should. i would be well pissed off if you moved next door to me. i know all about parking nonsense because of where i live. i agree with another poster, you should have had a polite word with your neighbour and explain that you will be getting rid of the other car as quickly as you can. moving in and then taking up both spaces, one being with a knackered old car would make ME fume. get over yourself

I think it could be because you are not moving the car everyday or at least once in a while.

We have terrible parking on our street, lots of families with one or two cars, and very few houses have off street parking. However, we all rub along nicely during the week as we may not get the space outside our homes, but there is a big turnaround so whereas you might have to park 500 yards down the road, the next time you go out, you might get a place right outside.

However, people do get pissed off if a car is parked outside their house, say, on a Sunday night, and it is not moved all week.

Jeans you clearly havent RTFT

The scrap car isnt parked outside the neighbours house, they know it is being picked up as soon as the OP can arrange it (she has been let down twice by people saying they will collect and then not doing) so they know that this is just a temporary situation.

Contstantly banging on her door to move it isnt going to change anything is it?

OP who are you scrapping with?

I found a site online that quoted me what I get for it (well over £100 for a SERIOUSLY knackered old ford fiesta) and they came when they said they would and paid up within 24 hours.

www.cartakeback.com/?gclid=CMqZ55WHr8oCFRKeGwodjbAFZA

Oh and I got waaay more for them collecting than I would have done for taking it to them.

I can sympathise with your neighbours, tbh. We live on a street where there is only room for one car to park outside each house. Every house does have a garage, so theoretically 2-car households could park one in the garage and one in front of their house. However, our delightful neighbours have decided that they will not use their garage and will park both of their cars in the street. As a result this means that at least one other resident per day is either unable to get in and out their garage or park near their house.