To think families that have more vehicles than people and no drive are selfish twats!

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Yes I'm looking at you Mr and Mrs Silver cars across the road. There are only two of you, you have no drive and yet you have now got 3 cars (they acquired a new one today) and a van (all of which are silver hence the name).

What the fuck do you need 4 vehicles for you can only physically be driving 2 at a time!

We live on a road which like many others across the country has difficulties regarding parking, only a few houses have drives. So why would you think it is reasonable to have 4 vehicles. You are pretty much ensuring that your neighbours have difficulty parking and yes I think you are selfish twats why don't you move to a house with a drive!

Does anyone else have such entitled car collecting neighbours?

Sorry for the rant but they do my head in. Every night moving their cars to be as close to the house as possible. As soon as anyone leaves the space seems to be filled with one of their cars.

@LakieLady

Good job you don't live near me. No campervans or caravans are allowed to be parked on the street

Someone owning more than one car is "entitled"? Grow up.

As long as it is taxed and insured, they can own as many cars as they like. Some people do like to drive for pleasure rather than necessity. If they aren't encroaching on your property, what does it have to do with you?

Owning as many cars as you want is fine if you have the space to park them without impacting on others. I think your attitude just displays the fundamental difference in how people look at things. Some people are thoughtful and considerate in terms of how their personal choices affect the people around them, others aren't. If I had a 3 car drive and my neighbours had only on street parking, I wouldn't take up their only available space and leave my drive empty. Because that would be inconsiderate and selfish. Similarly, unlike someone else local to me, if I lived in an upstairs flat with double yellows outside, in a village with a major parking problem, I wouldn't get 2 cars, a land rover and a horse box and dump them for weeks on end outside someone else's houses taking up the entire free parking for a row of cottages and actually encroaching on the inhabitants ability to get in and out of their homes. Because again that's inconsiderate and selfish. So smug off!

3 adults in my house, 4 cars (1 car each + a small 2 seater that actually lives in the garage) and a works van.

I'd have much more sympathy for people who moan if a) people used their garages for cars instead of storing crap and b) people used their dedicated spaces instead of just parking on the road and 'saving' their dedicated space in case the fucking Queen visits.

Which is what my neighbours do.

Hee hee my husband works for an Aston Martin dealership, we had to have 4 outside our house, waiting for drivers to pick them up, plus our own cars, funnily enough the neighbours loved it and all wanted a spin in one 😊 it was one off mind you

if a) people used their garages for cars

A lot of people can't fit their cars in their garages any more. At least, not if they want to actually get out of the car afterwards.

The massive garage is the only thing I miss about my first flat - 1960s built ex-LA job, you could get out of and walk round the entire car in that garage!

My neighbours opposite now, can't even get in their garage without folding the wing mirrors in.

Oh I feel your pain OP

Neighbours at the end have a drive big enough for 3 cars

They are two parents two adult kids - 4 cars one broken mini on the drive that they tinker with and two huge work vans

Small side road - my drive is always difficult to get on and off due to one vehicle parked directly opposite and one just on the edge of my drive - fuckers 😂

Owning as many cars as you want is fine if you have the space to park them without impacting on others.

I agree with this. I own more vehicles than I can park off-street at my house so I rent somewhere to keep them.

Yanbu OP. If we all did that then where would we all park? Selfish and unreasonable.

My neighbours are like this. The night I came home with newborn DS, they had four cars parked outside and we had to park someway down the road. However, the week before she had shouted at a commuter as he was parking his car outside telling him that her neighbour (me) was heavily pregnant with a toddler and he shouldn't take our space

We have a neighbour like this

There are 2 people living there. They have normal 1 car each, plus a fucking massive motor home, a sports car and a knackered 4x4 they take out off-roading

They have a garage and a driveway with room for 1 car. The garage is full of stuff so they can’t park in it so abandon their cars all over the place

Drives me mad and makes it difficult getting in and out of our driveway. Blocks visibility when turning out of our road, makes it difficult for pedestrians to cross and the road is so narrow everyone has to squeeze past them.

The reason that we have more cars than people is because one is a ‘toy’. It’s a classic car. It would be awful on a daily basis but is fun to play with. We need reliable cars for work.
We do have our own drive that’s plenty big enough though. If we ever moved and didn’t have a drive then we would have to rethink our vehicles.

Oh and the way to get around it from neighbors is to move where you have none! Worked for us!

If they tax and insure them then mind your own business, you're green with envy.

Unless you live in a large house with an in/out driveway, parking is always going to be an issue.

Where I live, there’s a mix of two/three/ four bedroom houses. Before you buy one, you know exactly what you’re getting in terms of garage or driveway or parking space. Yet every week there is moaning that there’s insufficient parking, or not enough room for the children’s cars, or someone has parked inconsiderately. Why buy a house with one space and no garage if you know you have two or three cars.

Why buy a house with one space and no garage if you know you have two or three cars.

Council planning policy is partly to blame. They believe that, by restricting off-street parking places for new builds, people will give up their cars. Two new five bedroomed houses build near to me have one and a half parking places each. that includes the single garages that are, inevitably, used for storing crap because they are too small to fit an average family car inside.

I think sometimes it’s understandabke to buy a house with no drive or garage because of the cost.

There’s a house in my street that has more cars than spaces, but they’re considerate. They don’t park close to driveways, they don’t move cars the second someone else moves and, they are considerate.
Like with us, we actively encourage DS to park in the car park at the end of the road because he’s much more able to walk than our elderly neighbours and he’s not battling kids in or out of the car.

Whereas having 5 cars and putting basketball hoops on your 6 car driveway and taking up 5 spaces on the road just makes you an inconsiderate twat. It annoys me that they will make their teens move for the parents, but not encourage/tell them not to park outside the elderly neighbour or the home of the lady who walks with two sticks. It’s just bad manners imox

I feel your pain. Especially irritating when they have a garage, but don't use it for actually parking in, because they keep their wheelie bins, a giant barbecue and heaps of other crap in there instead.

Guy opposite me lives alone. He has 2 cars. One on the driveway. And one on the road which he never drives (might not even work) he uses for storing wood.

Drives me potty cause the way his 'storage car' is parked makes it difficult for me to get in my driveway.

I own more vehicles than I can park off-street at my house so I rent somewhere to keep them. Yes! That is the sensible and non twatty thing to do.

If they tax and insure them then mind your own business, you're green with envy. 😂 I can assure you I don't envy a dilapidated Land Rover and a ratty old horse box, or a works van, or several clapped out old bangers. I just don't see why I should have to lug a laptop and shopping bags from 2 streets away with a bad back because some selfish twat can't make arrangements for their own excesses.

I own more vehicles than I can park off-street at my house so I rent somewhere to keep them.

What a thoroughly considerate neighbour you sound! I wish more people were as thoughtful. Surely it is safer to have them parked off road too, especially if you don't use them often.

I'm honestly not envious that they own 4 vehicles. I just don't see why it does not occur to them and others who have posted on this thread how owning so many cars when you have no off road parking is not a selfish thing to do.

What a thoroughly considerate neighbour you sound! I wish more people were as thoughtful. Surely it is safer to have them parked off road too, especially if you don't use them often.

You would think so. Unfortunately, insurance companies don seem to like it if you keep a vehicle at a post code different to your home address.

@Gin96

If you had parked 4 Aston Martins overnight where I live they would have either been stolen or the body would have been on bricks the next morning

Campaign for resident's parking.