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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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CarlottaValdez · 28/05/2021 10:54

They'll all be stored in big compounds in each neighbourhood - charging wirelessly - and you'll 'order' and pay for one via an app, possibly having to give reasons to explain/justify what kind of vehicle you need (e.g. you can't have a Land Rover if you're staying within the city/town, can't request a big comfy saloon for just one or two people), or even to justify why your journey is necessary at all and can't otherwise be done on foot/bike/public transport.

You seem to have some amazing insider knowledge of the future. When is this happening it sounds great. I hate the hassle of running a car.

Blossomtoes · 28/05/2021 10:59

We have no off street parking because our house is 400 years old and strangely nobody needed parking then. We park one outside and the other in the free public car park down the road.

Electric cars will be fine, the infrastructure for charging stations will be in place then. It’s going to be like filling up with petrol except you sit and have a coffee or nip off to the shops while it charges.

CarlottaValdez · 28/05/2021 11:07

On our road (million pound houses with no drives), they’re stating to put charging points in all the lampposts.

CarlottaValdez · 28/05/2021 11:09

Starting not stating sorry

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 28/05/2021 14:03

You seem to have some amazing insider knowledge of the future. When is this happening it sounds great. I hate the hassle of running a car.

I may be wrong, but I think it's just the way the wind is blowing. They've already said about smart motorways having wireless charging functionality.

Also, people's concerns about range only really matter if you only have access to one vehicle. If you have a 600-mile journey to make and, halfway through, a replacement fully-charged car is already waiting for you (or robots!) to transfer your luggage and continue on your way, is it a problem?

It's nice to have the exclusivity, convenience and privacy/personalisation, but I suppose most vehicles spend virtually all their time parked up somewhere and not moving, so we have far, far more than we actually need.

I read a book about a decade ago, about how much better, cheaper and more environmentally-friendly it could be if we rented/shared far more things in life. Take something like an electric drill: most households have one, as they're not too expensive to buy; but on average, how much of the time are they used?

Practically speaking, the amount of time combined that the people in ten streets (excluding carpenters/tradespeople etc.) use an electric drill could probably be accommodated with just one single appliance, if it could be organised properly. Instead, maybe 300 or more have had to be made and now stored, so that everybody can have their own.

I'm not saying that this brings me happiness personally: I like owning most things that I need and have a lot of reservations with how I think the future is looking, but a lot of people will probably see this as unsustainable.

I also wonder if Uber drivers realise that the Uber business model just has one small remaining niggle that they need to resolve and get rid of, to make the service far cheaper and more streamlined to run: them.

I have no insider knowledge whatsoever, but I'm guessing that, by about 40 (if not before), the idea that actual people used to actually have to drive the cars they travelled in - and bought and owned them individually too - is going to seem as absurd as the idea of having to search for a payphone in the street if you want to make a call when out and about is to us now - even those of us over a certain age.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 28/05/2021 14:06

*by about 2040

Cadburyflakeicecream · 28/05/2021 14:25

That’s grand for the person who can drive a normal car @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll but not everyone can. My friend drives an adapted vehicle.

Also where would all these cars be in rural areas? Where would they be stored, how would you get to them? How would you cater for my village which empties about 8.30am? There would be no cars left for anyone who wanted to go out before about 5.30!

woodhill · 28/05/2021 15:02

@Sweetslumber

Fast forward to 2030 when the government says all cars will be plug in. Yes, that will be fun.
I know, what will happen to all the petrol cars, will there be a huge scrap heap mountain
misspattylacosta · 28/05/2021 15:22

the idea that actual people used to actually have to drive the cars they travelled in - and bought and owned them individually too - is going to seem as absurd as the idea of having to search for a payphone in the street if you want to make a call when out and about is to us now - even those of us over a certain age.

I am not so sure, many people actually ENJOY driving.

mumwon · 28/05/2021 15:45

move in house -one car or no car
than dc & both partners work (or not) gets another car -so 2 cars
or has separate work vehicle =3cars
dc grow up so could be 3 than 4
easy

scryingeyes · 28/05/2021 16:24

Are you me? Do we live in the same street?

Only street parking on our street , one side of the road, for both streets. It's a nightmare. Most moved there when kids were young so mostly one car families and now when kids have grown, they're mostly three/four car families.
I seriously want to move but love my home.
I'd love to out some cones out for our one car, Ma Boswell style, but sadly have absolutely no right to a parking space outside my door. First come first serve.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 28/05/2021 16:58

That’s grand for the person who can drive a normal car @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll but not everyone can. My friend drives an adapted vehicle.

Also where would all these cars be in rural areas? Where would they be stored, how would you get to them? How would you cater for my village which empties about 8.30am? There would be no cars left for anyone who wanted to go out before about 5.30!

Oh, don't misunderstand me - I don't want it, and I think there are a whole load of problems that privileged, wealthy people who live in London have neither thought nor cared about.

As for villages, I'm guessing they will be 'served' in the same way as non-RM couriers currently serve 'the whole country' - except they charge a fortune extra or simply refuse to deliver to vast parts of Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and islands. They would probably have a 'Highlands Central Hub' in Inverness and then, when you book a car to come to your home in Thurso, the algorithm will simply issue you with a waiting time of 9 hours and consider it 'job done'.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 28/05/2021 16:59

*privileged, wealthy people

That was meant to say 'privileged, wealthy, able-bodied people'

Sweetslumber · 29/05/2021 06:16

@CarlottaValdez

On our road (million pound houses with no drives), they’re stating to put charging points in all the lampposts.
They’re trialling this in Oxford.

Of course affluent areas will get charge points.
I wonder how long it will take for not so well heeled roads or rural areas to get them?

I think Boris thinks everyone lives like him.

Duchess379 · 29/05/2021 22:28

I feel for you. I bought a 'new build' 7 yrs ago. We have a drive that can easily fit 3 cars, 4 if they are not big massive SUVs.
My neighbours opposite have parking to the rear of their property, the front of their house is basically my 'turning circle' to get our vehicles on/off. Except one neighbour insists it's her 'house & I can park here'. She doesn't give a flying fcuk that we struggle to get off because she's in the way. 7 yrs we've had this... 😠

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