Inconsiderate parking

[DeborahDowner]

Is there anyone on here who could explain to me why you would consider parking up in front of someone’s home nearish to an airport, for any old length of time, rather than paying for long stay or taking public transport?

Will anyone admit to doing this IRL? Please enlighten me. Honestly I’m all ears as I’d never, ever consider doing this to you and I’m trying to understand the thought process.

I don’t think I AIBU but I would love to hear the flip side of why people would think it’s ok to do this...

—i may have a flyparker outside our home (again)—

There are tons of residential areas which get non-residents parking there regularly. Anywhere near a town centre/big office complex without parking, hospital, school etc.

I'm intrigued as to why it's worse having one car parked in a space on your road for two weeks than having the same car parked there on a daily basis to attend work, or a parade of different cars parking to access a hospital/town centre or similar. Is it just the fact that parking spaces on the road are occupied overnight as well as during the day?

@PookieDo why don't you move house ? I'm pretty sure I have a friend who lives where you are. You can't park outside her house but she loves the fact she is in a village but great transport links .. near Stansted but anyhow.

My point was not to be snobby, but You can't have everything. I live miles from anywhere, with no beautiful old buildings but there is still parking issues, so it's just life. But I'm sure you can find somewhere there are no issues.

When I used to catch the train to London daily I would park in residential roads and walk to the station. Station parking is £10 a day here plus a lot to get the train. Sadly no BMW yet, but £50 per week at the cheapest to park is too much for me and there are no buses from where I live. I bet the residents hated me too.

In fact when I first worked in retail I used park outside a house and walk in 20 mins to work. The lady came into my shop and said " ohhhh it's you. I see you park in front of my house most days, it's miles away I drove here today." Needs must.

I'd put my bin out somewhere. What the other 16 people do I just wouldn't care

Lakielady I'm not obsessed with people parking on my road. If they left enough space for me to get out of my drive there would be no issue. But sometimes they don't. Meaning I have to arrange for a friend or DH to pick DS from school which isn't on is it?

@thatawkwardsilence aside from the fly parking it’s a fucking great place that’s why.

And you were being goady, as if how dare all the posh people complain about such a trivial thing 🙄

It’s not one car. Why would anyone mind this much about one car? And if it’s near a shopping centre, they will at some point on the same day come back and move it. With fly parking it’s stuck there for a duration of time day and night.

It’s hundreds if not thousands of cars a year - seen as there are millions of passengers per year - millions more than the numbers that would visit a hospital or most standard sized train stations (outside of a major city)

So all the comparables that people keep popping up with are not particularly comparable.

Haven't read the full thread....
It's probably safer especially as you mention cctv - last time I parked in the airport long stay my spare wheel was cut from underneath- cost £1000 worth of damage/ replacement but airport were not interested at all

I'm intrigued as to why it's worse having one car parked in a space on your road for two weeks than having the same car parked there on a daily basis to attend work

Doesn't happen to me but surely this is fairly obvious. If lots of people do this the entire road could be blocked off for weeks at a time. You can't even save yourself a good space overnight if you're expecting a delivery and it's especially annoying to walk for miles if you come home late at night.

If the road was blocked then it would be a police matter, the road isn’t blocked though cars are permanently parked and residents will have to find other places to store thier cars or hire a garage or rent a parking spot if they don’t like the ad-lib arrangement