Decent cars are expensive. 3 cars/vans even more so.
It has nothing to do with ‘not being able to afford’ a house with a drive.
Most gazillion £££ mansion blocks in central London don’t have driveways or off street parking so that’s your theory out of the window the capital.
That’s just one of many different scenarios. What about people living in Coronation Street-style terraces with 10yo ordinary cars? Oddly enough, some people can neither afford an expensive Knightsbridge house without parking nor a house in a much cheaper area with parking.
If we’re talking about moral perspectives of selfishness, it also surely depends not just on how many cars ‘per household’ but also how many people (adults) live there. If four or five adults (whether a family with grown-up children or housemates) cannot afford to live separately in the huge surplus of homes that we don’t have as a country, they are criticised for maybe having one car (or fewer) per adult.
There’s also an element of unconscious racism here, as it’s particularly common in some Asian communities to live in multi-generational families – frequently in town and city centres where properties are less likely to have drives.
God I love our residents parking zone. I pay that fee with grateful pleasure. Sod off freeloaders or get a ticket!
Out of interest, do you ever park in anybody else’s (unrestricted) residential streets – or would you decline to do that, as to do so would be being a freeloader?
I’m also wondering how many people complaining about tradespeople parking their works vans near where they live suddenly don’t object when one of these people is parked outside their house, doing work for them….?