To think it’s weird to knock a neighbours door and tell them to move their car

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A family that lives a few doors down Have started knocking peoples doors asking them to move their car from outside their house.

He likes to park right outside his house. Ideally I do too but understand that I don’t have a drive, I am not entitled to park outside my house. We all pay road tax therefore the street parking should operate on a first come first come basis. I try to be considerate but can’t all the time. My other neighbour has also asked if we could come to an arrangement about parking. I found this laughable. I told him I would try to be considerate but of course if someone is parked outside my house where should I park?!
Anyway, back to the original neighbour, I think it’s unreasonable of him to knock every door on the street asking if they know who the car belongs to as the owner needs to move it.
I find this behaviour aggressive and unreasonable. Am I overreacting?!

No, He is out of order

Been done to death, you know he is unreasonable

Tell them to provide evidence it's their parking space or jog on.

No drives and no allocation make it first come first served.

I would be making a point of parking outside their house!

If you live somewhere with street parking then you have to accept that you can’t guarantee a space outside the house

Don't drip feed.
You have an 18wheeler don't you?

YANBU. This increasing practise of people believing they have some kind of 'right' to the bit of road outside of their house is getting ridiculous.

Obviously, people should use common sense and consideration in the way they park. But no one has any right to ask someone to move when they're legally parked on a public road.

No don't move! We have this where we are and everyone else seems to be stubborn except us so we end up parking round the corner of 'our' space is taken so we don't offend anyone! Are you going to go knocking if someone is parked outside yours? You need to nip it in the bud right away!

Lol park where you like, he doesn't own the street! Remind him it is not private parking if he were to speak to you about it.

Do not give into this even once.... the answer is no! Please don't knock again busy!

If enough people tell him to fuck off they're not inclined to move their car yet then he'll give up hopefully.

Do you dump your shitty Saab outside their house for months at a time, reserving the space outside your house for your 'family car' and the space next to that for your ugly van?

If so, I can't tell you how much I hate you.

I'm picturing some awful wanker being abusive mind you.

If it were some lovely old gent asking nicely if we could move our car while he loaded his disabled wife into theirs i'd move certainly.

Assuming your car isn’t left there the entire time they sound ridiculous.
If I were you I’d claim to be unable to drive whenever they asked - due to drinking, medication, not being able to find your glasses etc. Hopefully they’ll stop soon.

hes a weirdo i would laugh and close the door

He wants to bully people to never park in front of his house, or else!

We have actually contemplated buying a clapped out van to see ndn spontaneously combust.
He has 2 cars and has his dw sat at the window for hours at a time awaiting `his'spaces being available for his cars.
He asked my dh to assist in the painting out of some double yellow lines that in his opinion went too far along our St and he could park there instead!!
Bonkers.

The only time I've asked our neighbour to move his car (note ASK not TELL) was when he didn't leave enough room between his car and our other neighbour's Disabled space - he happily reversed back a bit so I could fit in

My BFF has a neighbour like yours who knocks on everyone's doors when someone dares to park outside his house.... I've told her to tell him to kindly FUCK OFF cos he doesn't own the bastard road - some people are so entitled it actually beggars belief!

As long as you’re not leaving your car outside his house for weeks or months on end then no, you’re not overreacting. He doesn’t own the highway and providing there are no allocated parking spaces then as you say it’s first come first served.

Next time he does it, give him the standard Mumsnet 'no clue about budgetary constraints' response that he should just buy a house with a drive or allocated parking if he wants car parking that is available to him and him alone.

I'd just say 'Yes, it's mine, well spotted' and shut the door in his face .

I'd definitely park outside his house just to wind him up
As a side note, road tax doesn't exist so if he ever brings that up as an excuse, you can tell him this!

Our neighbour two doors up has drawn lines on the kerb outside his house so he everyone knows it's 'his' space, and he also gets his wife to put a parking cone in the road in 'his' space when he goes out.
While I won't park there if I can help it, but I did once as there was no-where to park in the whole road, and I'd just got back from an upsetting hospital appointment.
20 minutes later he knocked the door, said I had parked in HIS space and that I needed to move. I asked if there was any space in the road now, and he said no. I asked why I should park around the corner, and he then went on about how he was an 80 year old with health problems, that he NEEDED to park outside his house as he couldn't walk far (even though he's capable of walking 20 mins to the paper shop every morning.... I just said 'No, sorry, if I can't park in my road I'm not moving my car to another street for you!' and shut the door.

Indeed, it's the road fund licence, and there are many cars where the cost of this is precisely £0 per year, which gets you the same access to The Queen's Highway as those where it costs hundreds of pounds per year.

So he can walk to the shop, walk to your house to complain about your car being outside his house and can probably jump up and down from his armchair to the window every time he hears a car move outside, but he can't walk from a parking space that may not be located exactly to his liking to his front door .

There would be enough space for everyone if people had cars that didn’t extend beyond the width of their house frontage. The CFs are the ones who have bigger or multiple cars, because they are pushing other people out.

Maybe point this out to your neighbour. Unless you are one of the CFs!