A parking thread

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This is light hearted/first world problem, as both DH and I know it's not an actual real problem to be annoyed by

But would you be annoyed by this?

Next door neighbours (semi detached) are a family of four, with two teenage boys close in age. We have a drive which is shared with our neighbour on the other side, but family with teenagers don't have a drive, they have a bigger front garden instead.

The couple have two cars - a pick up truck and another estate. The woman doesn't work, the man works in the trade hence the truck.

The first teenage boy turned 18 last year, he got a new car. Which he still hasn't learned to drive, in fact I've never seen him go out in it in all that time. The second boy has clearly just had his birthday too as ANOTHER car has now showed up.

So between them as a household with no drive, they have FOUR cars, one being a huge truck. The two boys' cars don't seem to be moved ever, so they are permanently parked outside our houses, and then the other two vehicles in their fleet parked nearest again.

We have one car which is parked on the drive, and have no visitors at the moment thanks to covid. But AIBU to be annoyed that they have so many cars that take up so much space?!

Why would it annoy you? Are they blocking your driveway?

AIBU to be annoyed that they have so many cars that take up so much space?

No YANBU, they’re selfish inconsiderate arseholes but MN will say they’re legally parked so wind your neck in. Oh look, already started. 😂

A bit annoying, but as you have a drive I wouldn't find it much of an inconvenience.

MyPersona

We do have a drive but only space for one car - ours.

So they aren't inconveniencing you then? And unfortunately you possibly having visitors doesn't really have anything to do with people who live there having a car.

My best friend lives in a street with no off road parking so whenever I visit, I have to park streets away and walk. It is what it is. I wouldn't get angry if I found out one house had a few cars so I couldn't park near my friend. I don't live there; I don't get to complain about parking. Your visitors will just have to get on with it.

Not A car. FOUR cars. I mean the poor environment! (Although two of them never seem to move...)

I feel your pain and YANBU. They are inconsiderate in my opinion.

You have one car, and a drive that fits one car-all good .
The neighbours don't have a drive,, but the adults in that household legally park their individual cars on the PUBLIC road-,all good.

Translated, you would like the neighbours to not utilise the public road for parking, so your visitors can park once covid rules permit.
YABU

A car each is pretty standard these days. Are they actually parking on your property?

How can parking on a public road be unreasonable?

This would annoy me, which I know is frowned upon by MN. But I grew up in a house with 6/7 cars once we could all drive and if anyone parked near our house, my dad would get irrationally annoyed. So my annoyance stems from him

Before anyone starts, we had room for all of the cars to be parked outside the house without troubling others as we were end of a street with a random extra bit of road at the end.

I’m with you OP.

They aren’t doing anything wrong but is very annoying. Next door to me have 4 huge cars they park on the street leaving their drive free for visitors.. There's only ever 2 people max in the car with no car seats, luggage etc so I don’t understand why they need such massive cars

What’s more annoying is if someone is parked in 'their' space they’ll just double park in the cul de sac making life difficult for everyone else

Yes thank you! I know it's not a real problem and I would never ever raise it. But it seems so unnecessary, the wife in the couple doesn't actually work and only seems to ferry her one son around every now and then. And the pick up truck, whilst perfectly reasonable as the husband is in the trade, is the size of two cars. So that's the space of five cars!

The older teen (he might be 20 odd now) has had his car for 18 months and I've not once seen him in it or it not be parked in the same spot.

So why have they now bought ANOTHER car for their other son? I just hope he actually learns to drive it.

YANBU

Selfish and entitled.

YANBU, we have two cars and a drive that fits one car on at a time, the neighbours all have drives and we never park in front of each other’s houses coz there is plenty of space at our own.

But people who visit and don’t live on the road always park outside my house For context the other houses all have ONE car each, and the visitors are never ever mine.

It much easier if we don’t block our own drive but there’s always someone visiting using our house to park in front of. Completely legal and completely infuriating

I go out and passively aggressively reverse within a millimetre of their number plate 😂

YABU to have a parking thread without a diagram.

I get you OP. It's just a bit ridiculous to have no parking provision but own 4 cars.

I'm a bit worried you live on my street - we have a builder a few doors up who owns a van (looks like a mini lorry), a small van, a truck, his wife has a car and his 2 adult sons have cars too. He has a driveway big enough for 1 car.
Most houses have no drive but allocated, private parking on my street. Some houses have 1 space, some have 2 and there are 2 houses with driveways.
We have 2 houses that have 1 space and 3 cars FFS.

There aren't enough spaces free on the street for the surplus cars so there have been rows and no they just annoy people on the next street by dumping cars there instead

Oh- I know I have no right to, but it would annoy me too. How many cars do people need?!

Yes exactly! Especially when two of them aren't driven!

If they never move, are they taxed? Can you find out or report them as perhaps not being taxed? I appreciate that Gideon Osbourne ended the tax disc, but would solve the issue.

I understand. I get it. I have similar but I don’t say anything, particularly as I don’t have the neigh iyr’s din parking his white van in front of my house and another neighbour does. I do comment to my DH that I find it interesting that the neighbour who has 6 cars and 1 van for their household, never parks even I’ve in front of their own house. Their youngest often parks direct across from my driveway, making it very difficult for me to turn either into or out of my driveway due to another neighbour’s fence pillar. Can take me up to 5 manoeuvres to get out as it’s a narrow road and I have a 4x4. So if we have visitors, I’ll move my car in front of their home so my guests can park in my driveway. My DH thinks that is wrong but makes me feel a little better

selfish inconsiderate arseholes

For parking their cars on their land? Jeez.

When we first moved into our house, detached, single drive, we had two cars. The people opposite, a married couple with three teenage children, only the oldest boy old enough to drive, lived in a terraced house with no drive and a garage and parking space at the opposite end of the terrace, so on a different part of the road. Between the three of them they had ELEVEN vehicles. They caused no end of problems and once called the police on me for blocking in my OWN HUSBAND'S car when they and a visitor had effectively blocked off the road and access to my drive. The husband actually knocked on my door to complain that we had moved in bringing a child and that was attracting other children to the area which he found annoying.

@Dawnlassie no it's not on their land as they don't have a drive, they park it on the road.

I'm normally in the "it's a public road" brigade but four cars, half of which aren't driven???

@crowsfeet57 ELEVEN cars??!!!!! No way!!! My eyebrows would disappear right under my hair