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People parking outside our house

221 replies

ReeRi · 28/12/2019 12:07

I find that people always tend to park outside our house when visiting the neighbours. I’m not sure why at all. This is quite a wide road. There is lots of parking as the houses are decent sized semis and detached with big gardens and most have two parking spaces or more. There are not many cars on the road at all so it is not a case of parking wherever you have space. There is nothing outside the neighbours’ houses and yet, when people visit, they park outside our house.

It is particularly annoying because we only recently moved and are decorating so don’t have curtains or blinds downstairs. There is a massive car parked in front of my living room.

I know I don’t own the road and people can park wherever they like but I’m just wondering why the neighbours’ friends and relatives park outside our house and leave the front or their houses clear?!

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spingly · 28/12/2019 19:08

@ReeRi

  1. I made an observation. I want rude I could've said your stupid etc but I didn't!
  1. Who had removed your property?

3 t's not your land, what the hell makes you think if is? It's a road, any taxed and insured vehicle can park there,

  1. Go get yourself a copy of the Highway Code, read it and learn from it!

You sound totally are welcome ignorant of the legalities on the parking rules!

You don't own the road! Ridiculous!

DontCallMeShitley · 28/12/2019 19:10

Plant a lime tree to that it overhangs and drips sap.

There was one outside one of my houses and it was a while before I realised people never parked there for long, then realised why. I didn't have a car at the time.

I now live with constant banging of car doors and shouting of neighbours visitors as there is a space directly outside and no lime tree, think I might plant one...

Newkitchen123 · 28/12/2019 19:11

Haven't RTFT because life is too short but they can park where they like
If you're paranoid about people looking in get blinds

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 19:29

@spingly You have been rude and again you are saying something that is incorrect. Of course the road is not our land 🤦‍♀️ I I mentioned above that the previous neighbour annoyed me a bit because they parked on our land (on our actual land - strip next to our garden that was big enough to park on but we didn’t often park there as we didn’t want to block access to all neighbours who has a right of way on it on foot. So the next door neighbour would try to park one of their cars outside their house and the other outside ours. If our car or another car was outside our house they started parking on our land. We never said anything as we were moving. They also removed our fencing trellis that DH has made himself (he is not a joiner and he was very proud of it and it looked great! One day it disappeared and then we saw next door were doing work so they must have removed it for that but they didn’t speak to about it before or after. We had other things going on to be honest but it was rude and they didn’t even return it. We were moving house but it wasn’t great for viewings for that to have been taken down.

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 19:31

@spingly I just read the end of your post. A little rude again. Perhaps you should at least read this post a bit more carefully before you post in such an argumentative way.

These threads can be good fun and and a bit of a debate is healthy but some Mumsnetters take it too fat and forget their manners!

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spingly · 28/12/2019 19:32

@ReeRi I think you need to move again, you're still not happy and still moaning!

Honestly if life's better why are you still whinging?

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 19:33

No @spingly I think you’ve read too much into it and haven’t read or understood the full thing. Maybe you should stay off MN as it seems to be getting you riled up 😂

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BlackeyedSusan · 28/12/2019 19:35

Possible reasons;

They parked where they thought the house they were visiting was but misjudged.

They want to.park where the van is visible and overlooked for security, low wall open curtains.

They are nosy buggers and using it as an excuse to peer in.

Parked under a street light so he could see to sort his boot.

spingly · 28/12/2019 19:36

@ReeRi if anyone disagrees with you then you consider them rude.... why?

It's a debate, I think you're bang out or order by moaning about a perfectly legally parked car, moaning again because it's large, partly because you've got no blinds up, why they would even notice that I don't know. So that makes me rude?

You are massively precious and I suppose that means I'm rude again?

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 19:36

@BlackeyedSusan I think on this occasion he just wasn’t sure which house to go to.

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1Morewineplease · 28/12/2019 19:39

I have a similar problem. All houses in our road have drives big enough for two or three cars and people opposite have two drives , enough for five cars, yet they park right outside our house. I’m just rubbing my hands in glee for when my children pass their driving test and have cars.
It’s just selfish. They basically don’t want the view of their own cars from their front room yet expect us to accept it.

spingly · 28/12/2019 19:39

@BlackeyedSusan I think on this occasion he just wasn’t sure which house to go to.

I cannot believe you're analysing the reason why someone has parked outside your house! Jeez get a life!

Grumpelstilskin · 28/12/2019 19:44

OP, you come across a bit of a twatt actually. Seriously, get a fucking life!

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 19:45

Yes I am realising more and more how selfish people can be @1Morewineplease

Anyway thanks everyone for the constructive comments.

I ignore the ones the ones that are not constructive as they tend to be from negative people who just want to put other down!

The guy wasn’t here very long and hopefully we’ll have blinds soon anyway if this continues!

😊

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spingly · 28/12/2019 19:47

OP, you come across a bit of a twatt actually. Seriously, get a fucking life!

So true!

spingly · 28/12/2019 19:48

The guy wasn’t here very long and hopefully we’ll have blinds soon anyway if this continues!

In the meantime get some of those nighttime eye shields to wear, or stick newspapers at your window, you won't see the cars then!

Saracen · 28/12/2019 19:52

You may have heard of the suggestion whereby, when you are thinking of selling a house, you ask a friend to come and critique its kerb appeal, because they will notice things you've got used to - such as the tatty-looking shrub or the awkward-shaped door handle.

How about doing that in this case? Get a friend to pretend they are visiting your neighbour up the road. Tell them to drive up and park wherever feels best. See if they choose to park outside yours. They will be able to explain their thinking, e.g. looks too muddy to get out of the car outside neighbour house, I pulled up in the first clear space etc.

autumndreaming · 28/12/2019 19:55

To be honest I'm another who finds it irrationally rage-inducing when people park in front of my house. I live in a tourist area so in the summer months I can't get parked outside my house for tourists who go off on their activities and leave their cars all day long, while I just want to get home from work and make dinner, not spend ages looking for a car parking space. I know that they're not in the wrong, it still winds me up Grin

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 20:03

@Saracen Yeah I’ll see how it goes to be honest but it’s a good idea if it’s a regular problem!

@autumndreaming It’s perfectly ok to get wound up sometimes as long as we don’t go around raging at people 😆 I think it would be hard to live in a tourist area if you had strangers constantly parking and leaving you nowhere to park

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Averyyounggrandmaofsix · 28/12/2019 20:04

Op you have a drive so its not inconveniencing you in the slightest, be grateful you have nothing real to worry about.

ragged · 28/12/2019 20:08

Buy a house that has no windows? That would solve your problems.

dontknowdontknow · 28/12/2019 20:09

You need some net curtains to twitch and a diverting hobby.

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 20:13

@Averyyounggrandmaofsix I am lucky that I have a drive and I have lots to be thankful for BUT don’t assume I have “nothing real to worry about”. That annoys me. I lost my son this year, my only child, and this was our first Christmas without it him. It has been a touch Christmas in that sense and yes you’re right I have a drive and it’s not a big deal. Perhaps I started this thread as an escape for the “real” things to worry about but some Mumsnetters get carried away!

All I ask is you think before saying “get a life” or “don’t you have anything real to worry about” because you don’t know what’s going on in someone else life. People can be so nasty.

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ReeRi · 28/12/2019 20:13

tough not touch

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keepsmiling2015 · 28/12/2019 20:16

Yabu. You might be annoyed but the person who parked that car isn't being in anyway inconsiderate!

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