Parking issues

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I’m in the south east and I find it so hard to get a car parking space.

Before and including lockdown - I have trouble getting a space at my supermarket, my doctors and it’s impossible to park in the car park at the hospital. Everywhere is so busy.

Does anyone else have this issue where they live? If you don’t - where do you live?

Parking spaces are easily obtained here, we live in a small market town pop c.10k.

YABVVVU because there is no diagram to illustrate the problems

Ha ha! Here is a diagram.
Where are you if it’s not like this. I think I need to move, as it’s really getting me down

Local hospital parking can be very busy but the 2 main sites have park and ride to make it easier.
I’ve never struggled to park at the supermarket, doctors, pharmacy or at home (have a drive)
I live in South Wales.

we're in a market town in the west near the Welsh borders.

I also live in South East. Hospital is very hard but is on a main bus route so most people use that (service is every 7 minutes from where I live)

Supermarkets etc - no problem at all. Not even at Christmas.

I live in a SE city. Parking is notoriously bad. Nearby seaside towns are also awful, especially in summer. Predictably though, public transport is also terrible!

So I moved to the city without a car and walk everywhere

Nope, everywhere is dead right now. Then again I get a space almost every time (Glasgow).

I moved from the SE to Durham and I was ecstatic to discover I could park outside the co-op! No difficulties with parking or traffic jams. It's bliss.

Fantastic diagram OP

I live in the SE and can always get parking, even when we lived in a London borough.....where do you live OP??

Yorkshire here
Other than the hospital, which is within walking distance anyway, I rarely have parking issues. Except if I go to bloody Harrogate!

South West, always parking at the supermarket and the doctors. Nearly always able to get a P&C space at the supermarket. Usually drive around the hospital several times for about 15 minutes before finding a space, apart from miraculously when I was pregnant and there was always space!

South East seaside town:
No problem parking at the supermarket (but tend not to go at the weekend and it might be different then?).
I walk to the GP.
No problem parking at/by the hospital the very few times that I have done so.

BUT when it’s sunny I often can’t park outside my house as tourists/visitors park there.

I’ve lived Ashford, Maidstone, Medway and Canterbury and its the same at each place.

Drive around the car park for 15 minutes looking for a space. Aibu to want to park as soon as I get there? Instead of waiting for someone to leave their space so that one becomes available and I have the beat someone else to it?

No problems with either parking or traffic but I live in the Scottish Borders that has a population of around 11000 people. I used to live in the South East, I couldn't do it anymore, far too many people. But I am lucky that I can work from home, so work doesn't dictate where I live. We used to live in Bath and the parking issues there were horrendous!

For the supermarket, depends on what time you go. Try Saturday morning in the local Tesco and there's no chance. Another time you'll be fine.

I couldn't park near my house at times for the first few years. Then they bought in permit parking and lo and behold, not an issue to park anymore.

I live in a city centre so all the things you mention are in walking distance.

Nailed the diagram element!

Yes in the south east too , they just keep building vast estates with too many flats and not enough parking and not enough infrastructure . And there are several thousand more dwellings as they like to call them going up .

Can barely get down our street since lockdown. A lot of people seem to of moved into relatives here. Busses meant to be every 10 but often left waiting 40 minutes. Shambles.