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Why buy a house with no parking if you have 3 cars

365 replies

Wineisrequired · 26/05/2021 07:11

So parking where I live is awful. Made worse by people buying houses with no driveways or parking. So you now have extra cars and vans being parked on the side road. If you have that many vehicles why buy a house with no parking . Is it me and shall I just shut up. I know it’s not a given right to park near your house but parking miles away because new people moving in have lots of cars parked really grates on my nerves. Anyway rant over 🤣

OP posts:
thecapitalsunited · 26/05/2021 07:16

You can’t afford anywhere with parking. HTH.

Ginuwine · 26/05/2021 07:17

@thecapitalsunited

You can’t afford anywhere with parking. HTH.

@thecapitalsunited

You got THAT from the OP's post? Seriously?

Or did you just want to come on here and give someone a good kicking? In which case please don't?

HTH Hmm

ImperfectTents · 26/05/2021 07:18

I think she was just answering the ops question

SpongebobNoPants · 26/05/2021 07:19

But you bought a house with no off road parking and you drive?
Often houses with driveways are out of people’s price range or the houses in the area they need to live to be close to family / work mean it’s impossible to have a driveway... terraced houses with small front gardens

Sparklingbrook · 26/05/2021 07:21

No. We have 3 cars and would not buy a house with no parking. I want to be able to park when I get home, and also have somewhere for visitors to park. It could be the perfect house but having no parking would be a dealbreaker for me.

CoffeeCakey · 26/05/2021 07:21

It costs loads to buy somewhere with the space for 3 cars and most houses round by me are lucky if they can convert their front bit to have one small car.

CarlottaValdez · 26/05/2021 07:21

This is very normal where I live (zone 5 London). It doesn’t really bother me, I usually get a space within a couple of minutes of my house.

Original poster
Wineisrequired · 26/05/2021 07:22

@thecapitalsunited I work full time but unfortunately still couldn’t afford house prices found here . Plus a lot of the new builds don’t have parking as they are built like litre rabbit hutches

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cupsofcoffee · 26/05/2021 07:22

Not everyone can afford houses with off-road parking Hmm

Sparklingbrook · 26/05/2021 07:23

Yes I think @thecapitalsunited was answering 'Why buy a house with no parking if you have 3 cars'-it might be because you can't afford a house with parking. Depending on where you live.

KihoBebiluPute · 26/05/2021 07:24

People buy the houses they can afford according to their own priorities. If they are happy to take their chances on free on-street parking rather than forking out £££ for off-street parking they have every right to do so. You are being very unreasonable. Your options are to either stay put and accept that there will always be difficulties parking, or you can move to somewhere else where you can have your own off-street parking. If you don't want to move because the current situation suits you best, you are being spectacularly selfish because you are assuming that your reasons for the current situation suiting you best are somehow more valid and more important than whatever reasons your neighbours have for the current situation suiting them best.

Earlgrey666 · 26/05/2021 07:24

The nicer, more affluent areas in my city very often don't have parking as they are full of very old houses. In a lot of cases, it's cheaper to buy a newer house with parking in a different area than without parking in the better areas.
People choose the areas without parking as they want the school catchments, to be nearer the hospitals and universities etc and these factors take priority over a parking space.

thecapitalsunited · 26/05/2021 07:25

@Wineisrequired So why no sympathy for other people who similarly can’t afford a house with parking but still need to get to work?

AbsolutePoppycock · 26/05/2021 07:26

I feel your rant. Finding a house near me with a drive is like looking for hens teeth and the ones that do carry a massive premium (understandably)
it just comes down to budget

Ariela · 26/05/2021 07:27

Perhaps you too should have bought a property with sufficient parking for your own household needs before complaining? Or consider bicycle, motorcycle or bus or walk?
If you can't afford it, perhaps they can't either?

Ratatattatpat · 26/05/2021 07:28

I think you handsaw answered the question of why they bought a house with no parking when they have 3 cars. Houses with parking are too expensive in your area for them. I think the more relevant question is why have 3 cars when you have nowhere to park them?

arethereanyleftatall · 26/05/2021 07:28

Eh?
Because they can't afford it.
Same as you can't.

Frazzled2207 · 26/05/2021 07:28

I struggle to understand why any family would need three cars tbh. We do fine with just one.
There is a house nearby with three range rovers. Who on Earth needs three range rovers. Tbf they are all in the drive.
I get why it’s annoying but not enough british houses have drives. I used to live on a terraced street where parking was a nightmare. The houses were a similar width to the lengths of the cars.
So the families with two cars (there weren’t many) struggled and tended to piss off everyone else.

Hopdathelf · 26/05/2021 07:28

I get where you’re coming from. My neighbours (two adults) have two cars and a work van (plus an endless stream of visitors all arriving by car). I can see how that situation could come about but if a job changed, possibly temporarily, but this has been the case for years and the second car moves once in blue moon, the main car only on weekends and they spend the evenings cruising around looking for spaces right outside their home. I know that annoys them (we are on good terms and chat quite often) so it baffles me why they keep both cars. We are only allowed two permits per house so they have to pay a fortune to park too.

Earlgrey666 · 26/05/2021 07:28

Why did you buy a house with no parking if you have a car?

CovidCorvid · 26/05/2021 07:30

I don’t understand why you seem cross about others doing this when you seem to be in the same position?

I have to park one car down a side street, our drive fits two cars in but now Dd has a car so we have three cars. When we moved here with toddler Dd it never crossed my mind.

Branleuse · 26/05/2021 07:31

Often you can add an extra 100k onto the price of a house here with a driveway. Might just be a reason? Who knows?

gurglebelly · 26/05/2021 07:31

I feel you, we do actually have driveways but 2 of our neighbours have 14 cars between them, it's fucking ridiculous

Sparklingbrook · 26/05/2021 07:31

@Frazzled2207

I struggle to understand why any family would need three cars tbh. We do fine with just one. There is a house nearby with three range rovers. Who on Earth needs three range rovers. Tbf they are all in the drive. I get why it’s annoying but not enough british houses have drives. I used to live on a terraced street where parking was a nightmare. The houses were a similar width to the lengths of the cars. So the families with two cars (there weren’t many) struggled and tended to piss off everyone else.
We need 3 cars. DH, DS and I all have to drive to work. I don't think that's unusual. When DS1 comes back from University he'll need one too.
CoffeeCakey · 26/05/2021 07:32

I struggle to understand why any family would need three cars tbh. We do fine with just one.

Really? Well if both parents and the eldest could work and can't get a bus or walk then they need a car. Or one of them might need to do a crazy school run, they might have been unfortunate to have been allocated a school miles away from one of their other children and need to do two different school drop offs.