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

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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 🤣

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Wanttocryatthecost · 26/05/2021 18:23

Parking wasn’t even a factor in our last house purchase, it was location, house size, garden for young DCs, schools and of course affordability.

cupsofcoffee · 26/05/2021 18:30

@secular39

Why do you need three cars? What a waste of money and tax you are spending. Two should be more than enough!
Who are you to decide that?

What about people with adult children living at home?
Or HMO with 5-6 adults living there?
Or people with works vehicles that can't be used for "pleasure" at weekends or holidays?

LakieLady · 26/05/2021 18:31

@Crowsaregreat

I think the question really is why one household needs three cars. But if you bought your own house with parking then it wouldn't bother you, right?
A family member has a 3 car household: husband's work van, daughter's car and her own car. Her daughter's boyfriend often stays and he has a car too, so 3-4 cars for one household.

Although they live on the edge of a fairly big town, they have pisspoor public transport and they each need a car to get to their work and college.

There are lots of families like that in my street, too. It's really not that unusual for families with older children still at home. And god knows, with rents for a 1-bed flat now well over £800 a month, they've got little chance of leaving home anytime soon.

woodhill · 26/05/2021 18:34

Or people could share cars.

I thought the government wanted to limit car usage or reduce the use of petrol cars by 2030?

I never had my own car when I lived at home but could use dm's. Owning a car is a privilege

misspattylacosta · 26/05/2021 18:38

Or people could share cars.

who do you want me to share cars with? The whole point of having one is the freedom and flexibility. Not spending your life organising car share and waiting for people.

AdobeWanKenobi · 26/05/2021 18:40

@woodhill

Or people could share cars.

I thought the government wanted to limit car usage or reduce the use of petrol cars by 2030?

I never had my own car when I lived at home but could use dm's. Owning a car is a privilege

Car sharing in families only works if everyone works in a similar place starting and finishing at similar times. No way would that have worked when my adult children were at home.

I live in a pretty big city, if I want to get to town A that is west of me via public transport I need to travel half an hour to town B in the east and catch another bus that comes back via town C eventually stopping in town A. With 1 bus every hour this would take somewhere in the region of 2 and a half hours by public transport for a journey that takes 25 by car. Outside of London public transport is exceptionally poor and I can only imagine what it's like in more rural areas.

If the Government really want to reduce usage of cars they need to invest heavily in public transport where certainly in my city the service is virtually skeleton.

Babygotblueyes · 26/05/2021 18:41

I think there should be more allocated or permit parking. Where I live there are a lot of terraced streets, as older people are dying a lot of young couples are moving in with a car each - this is just about manageable but at one point on my street a dad let his young son rent his house with 4 of his buddies - and they had frequent visitors. Which made a difficult situation a complete nightmare. But I think it is wrong councils change to do permit parking.

BraveBraveMouse · 26/05/2021 18:43

I don't know if you noticed OP, but housing prices in the UK are kind of an issue.

And our public transport infrastructure and services are some of the worst in Europe.

woodhill · 26/05/2021 18:45

I understand as we live in Suburbs with great transport but ooh if the government has its way with climate change etc

woodhill · 26/05/2021 18:47

@misspattylacosta

Or people could share cars.

who do you want me to share cars with? The whole point of having one is the freedom and flexibility. Not spending your life organising car share and waiting for people.

You tell meGrin

I used to share with DH, it can be done

We also have a drive to park our cars on

misspattylacosta · 26/05/2021 18:52

I used to share with DH, it can be done

When you both need the same car to go in different places, I am not sure it can...

woodhill · 26/05/2021 18:56

😊 yes we both have one

Somehow at the back of my mind is the government's pledge with no more petrol cars by 2030.

What will happen to all the cars

murbblurb · 26/05/2021 18:58

Pisspoor public transport - that's a lot to do with it. Our shit government throws money at roads but won't provide decent transport anywhere except London.

I feel sorry for the next generation on their fucked up planet.

purdypuma · 26/05/2021 18:59

I understand the op's frustration. I live in a 2 bed terrace with no frontage to turn into a drive. I bought the house I could afford at the time. Across the road has a works van & large saloon. Next door had 4 cars to their house at one point which annoyed me as I struggled to park a mini if I got home after 5pm as all their 4 cars would be parked in a row taking up any available parking near my home! To me that is inconsiderate.
I'm hoping to buy a 2 bed property, preferably semi-detatched with a drive in the next year or so but at the moment the local property market is barmy & houses are selling in under a week!

huuuuunnnndderrricks · 26/05/2021 19:00

It's madness isn't it , where I live there are people who have bought £5-700k houses with one space and 3 cars !! Why!???.. you can get an older house with a massive drive for that .!

cupsofcoffee · 26/05/2021 19:12

@woodhill

Or people could share cars.

I thought the government wanted to limit car usage or reduce the use of petrol cars by 2030?

I never had my own car when I lived at home but could use dm's. Owning a car is a privilege

I mean, how does that work when DH works 45 minutes away and I need my car for my job at home?
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Wineisrequired · 26/05/2021 19:13

@BraveBraveMouse fully agree house prices here are very high hence I rent .If there was decent public transport I would get rid of my car. Unfortunately there isn’t ☹️

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Wineisrequired · 26/05/2021 19:22

@thecapitalsunited- I have lots of sympathy for people battling to park every night . What I don’t have sympathy with is when people start putting traffic cones on the road to secure a space 😴 they did end up in the hedge 😂

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littlepattilou · 26/05/2021 19:42

@LakieLady

Will you make your kids leave home when they pass their tests and buy their own cars then, @littlepattilou?

Nice try.

However.... My ONE adult child has already passed her driving test. And she does not live at home anymore. She is now in her mid 20s, and left home after finishing uni at 21, and got a small rented flat with her boyfriend.

They have recently bought a house that they saved 20% deposit for over the past 3 years. In addition, she and her boyfriend share a car. They don't need one each, and they don't HAVE one each.

We raised her to be independent, and not to be like some young adults, who stay at home with their parents well into adulthood, never really take any responsibility for anything, never save any money, leech off their parents, and litter up the neighbourhood with all their cars.

HTH. Wink

waits tentatively for the inevitable 'I bet your daughter was GLAD to leave YOU pattilou' comments!

Mugsen · 26/05/2021 19:50

There are people, quite a few in our road, who have more cars and Van's than adults living there. It's really weird. Our ndn, a couple, have 4 cars, all parked in the street. Can not understand why. They never move them. It's quite common here though.

littlepattilou · 26/05/2021 19:52

@Mugsen

There are people, quite a few in our road, who have more cars and Van's than adults living there. It's really weird. Our ndn, a couple, have 4 cars, all parked in the street. Can not understand why. They never move them. It's quite common here though.
Yeah there are a couple of families like that in our neighbourhood. Not many though thankfully. And none near me. They are quite loathsome though, and they all seem weirdly proud of having more cars than people.

Pathetic.

DelBocaVista · 26/05/2021 19:55

I used to share with DH, it can be done

Not particularly helpful when you work in opposite directions and public transport is pretty much non existent

misspattylacosta · 26/05/2021 19:55

waits tentatively for the inevitable 'I bet your daughter was GLAD to leave YOU pattilou' comments!

not really

I was just thinking that the real world must be such a disappointment for someone who think so highly of themselves and is clearly so delusional about everything.

AdobeWanKenobi · 26/05/2021 20:12

@misspattylacosta

waits tentatively for the inevitable 'I bet your daughter was GLAD to leave YOU pattilou' comments!

not really

I was just thinking that the real world must be such a disappointment for someone who think so highly of themselves and is clearly so delusional about everything.

And goady to boot 😂😉
Cadburyflakeicecream · 26/05/2021 21:32

I have 3 kids. Two were contraceptive failures (I was on the injection and then the coil) and one was planned. Before Patti gets snotty about 3 kids.

All are now working and when they were at home they worked different shifts in different directions. And even when they were in the same hospital the two who were working there were never on the same shifts.

They needed their own cars and even more now that 2 of them don’t live with me anymore.

I have a car and my DD who is still at home when not at uni has a car.

I’d love to be able to use public transport but where I am it’s not a realistic option.

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