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!

Tried them Bogeyface - no response - I have spoken to someone and have an email so hopefully all will be resolved soon.

TBH they were parking nazis before this.

Just said to my OH - if all the spaces were taken (once scrap car is gone) except a gap outside their house, they would expect us to park down the road and complain if we didn't. We wouldn't expect that if the situation was reversed.

'Especially when the space outside his house is free!'

Wait, so you're not even parking outside his house, he's just annoyed that you have two cars parked in front of your house because he has just the one car?

I'm tired, admittedly, but can someone tell me what I've missed.

I don't get why neighbour is cross.

We have on street parking (& two cars like many in the street). A neighbour gets so uptight about parking right outside the house - not enough to worry about imo.

if all the spaces were taken (once scrap car is gone) except a gap outside their house, they would expect us to park down the road and complain if we didn't

when that happens, I suggest you point out that the car outside your house isn't yours, & ask him what he's going to do about that? he will probably splutter that that's not his problem, & you can smile sweetly & close the door

we're relatively lucky here (Victorian terraces, short front gardens, no drives) in that most houses don't have 2 cars, some have none, & there are 3 side streets relatively close together with no houses fronting on to them, which adds a dozen or so spaces to the mix, & generally people aren't too possessive.

daytimes are a problem as there is a 6th form centre round one corner & a primary school round another but evenings & weekends are generally ok.

I would love to have a drive though...

It makes me laugh so much that people get so angsty about this. If you want your own parking space/s, buy a house with a drive big enough for the number of cars you have. Otherwise, put up and shut up!! Your neighbour is an arsehole...

Not relevant I know, but why scrap a car that only needs ignition fixed? Surely it could have been fixed for less than £650?

The more they ask the longer I would leave it but I am evil

Next door neighbour parked in our marked disabled space yesterday.

When DH asked him to move it so he could park and get me out of the car the neighbours response was 'its snowing'

He did however move it pretty quick when neighbour other side popped out to see what was going on. (He's in the police force).

OP are you one of my neighbours ? YANBU.

My ndn knocked on and asked me to move my car which was parked outside his house for 40 mins (as I was going back out, I wouldn't have left it there all night). My parked outside his because someone else was outside mine, he still had plenty of space to park. He sat in his car with the engine on whilst I drove it forward to outside my house (as the random car had gone by then).

I thought about the mumsnet response about it being public highway but am not very confrontational.

I had to rush to do this as had to leave the baby crying in his cot.

Hopefully my ndn will sell soon, fx yours does too.

We have someone on our street who is utterly obsessed with getting the same parking space every single time!

they have a driveway for one car but if he goes out he will get his wife to move her car out onto the road into 'his' space to reserve it.

If someone is in it when he gets back he will virtually park in top of the car and as soon as they leave he is there moving his car back into 'his' space. Dh parked there once as no where else to park and when he moved he was virtually shunted out so he could get the space back!

He once knocked and asked us to move what he thought was our car so he could park there instead. I pointed out it wasn't actually our car but told him whose it was. He wouldn't ask they person whose it actually was cause he is known to be confrontational but thought cause I was a women and heavily pregnant it would be ok to ask me to move when he mistook it for our car!!

Needless to say it's now a running joke and sone neighbour always park in that space if it's free to make a point. Personally I can't be bothered with it tbh.

Best bit about it is that he doesn't even live on our street! He lives on the main road our street is off but his house is on the corner of our street!

I am almost never able to park outside my house. Irritating sometimes but it can't be helped.

People who think they own the street outside their houses are utter loons , especially when they get to the point of knocking on front doors whining.

Ignore him.