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

[Wineisrequired]

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 🤣

You seem to be in the same position as those you are complaining about... unless I'm missing something?!

@underneaththeash

OP - you can ask the council to install a controlled parking zone, that may make things easier.

Best advice on this thread and I have also stated the same at the top of this thread.

I get where you're coming from, we bought our house last year and there's one house out of seven that has a drive (we live down a closed off cul de sac) so everyone else has to park on the street, and most houses have more than one car! It is a nightmare and we're lucky as we can convert our front garden into a drive when we can finally afford it - planning permission and everything is going to cost us around £1000! If I'm honest, we were just so desperate and excited to buy a house that the parking issue seemed almost insignificant! I think that's probably the case for lots of people though, they just want to get a house ASAP and will deal with any problems later. Or maybe that was just us haha :P

We've got friends who live in a city. They own a £1m house in the NE that only has 1 parking space which is in the garage accessed through an alley at the rear of the house. They have 2 cars and up to 4 when their DC are home. Their previous house 1 mile away had a similar set up. To them, location is more important than off road parking.

@Ginuwine
The "difference", if it even needed explaining, is that OP has the one car. Her neighbours have 3.
Where did OP say that? I can't find that anywhere. Did you, perhaps, make that up?

[quote Babbly]@Ginuwine
The "difference", if it even needed explaining, is that OP has the one car. Her neighbours have 3.
Where did OP say that? I can't find that anywhere. Did you, perhaps, make that up?[/quote]
I assumed that from the thread title the neighbours have 3 cars.

Presumably they can't afford to buy somewhere with off-street parking, just like you.
Yes, it's annoying but unfortunately that's the way it is unless you can appeal to the council to get some kind of permit scheme in place.

@Wineisrequired that sounds insane.

When I bought my first car (many years ago) I lived in a long terraced street with no off street parking and became adept at reverse parking in tiny spaces with my wee Fiesta, often nowhere near the house. I vowed that my next house would have off road parking or a garage.

If the household has three cars? Sounds like a constant struggle every day, but it also means mn parking threads .

Incidentally I was looking at old photos at the weekend and saw a pic of me in a pram in this street. There was two cars in the whole street . Nowadays it is stuffed with cars on both sides as far as the eye can see.

[quote Wineisrequired]@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[/quote]
So basically you understand the problems people have with getting off-road parking, you even experience those problems yourself, yet you’re still bloody moaning? It’s still everyone else’s fault for buying in an area without off-road parking, but clearly not yours for renting somewhere without it?

Buy or rent in a cheaper area instead where you can have your own parking space. If you’re thinking, ‘But moving isn’t an option for me’, maybe you can conceive that it isn’t for your neighbours either.

COVID will have changed things as well. Student DDs car, which she previously needed for placements, is now on the street as her course last year was on-line.

We can see our neighbours peering out with apparent disapproval. But not much else we can do.

Maybe I’m a bit slow this morning.. I haven’t had my coffee yet but.. why are you/others angry at ‘people buying houses with no parking when they have vehicle(s)’ and you also ‘bought a house with no parking when you had a vehicle’

People moan about it on my street too, a dead end terrace road and people park each side. Most houses have 2+ cars. Last I checked the street hasn’t changed since 1905 so it’s unlikely they were unaware of the parking situation when they purchased.

Find a new thing to rage about.
Get a job closer to home.
Do something about it.

The snippy little kicks at OP ("you're a hypocrite" or "you can't afford it" ) are so unnecessary and typical of this site.

Here's my take on things.

Due to my sheer fortune in the lottery of life, I live on a farm. I could park 40 vehicles here and not disturb myself or anyone.

I did however live in the borough of Wandsworth once upon a time. I was there pre, and post, the introduction of CPZs.

Controlled parking zones help because if they're not there, you can have someone bring 6 cars (yep this really did happen) to a narrow Victorian terraced street, and destroy whatever parking balance existed if houses had one or two cars per household.

There was never any point arguing about it before as everyone had every right to the kerb so to speak. Which is why a limited number of permits per household is the only solution for this kind of thing.

Back to my point though, I own enough off street parking to deal with my parking "needs". However that doesn't make me think "ooh let me come on this thread and chastise the OP for not provisioning the same".

What an ugly way to behave - why do some people do this?

@cupsofcoffee

Not everyone can afford houses with off-road parking

It’s not even about affordability in many areas. There just aren’t many houses round here with off road parking at all. It’s mainly Victorian terraces for miles around. They don’t tend to have drives, not sure why. Maybe Victorian’s didn’t have cars?

My neighbours have 3 cars and a huge work van, they have more than enough space to park them all on their property, they wouldn't even have to do a car shuffle in the morning yet there is never more than one on the drive. All the others are on the road.

I do understand what you are getting at OP, but as others have said you can’t really comment because you yourself can’t afford a house with parking so that is most likely the same for them. It’s best just to not dwell on it, there might come a time when you need more cars but still can’t move, which is exactly what happened to us!

I’m hoping electric cars and shared cars and ‘autonomous’ cars will sort this in my lifetime and streets will go back to where kids could play and front gardens can be put back to gardens rather than paved parking spaces.

Yanbu that some household seem to have a lot of cars.

@lunar1

My neighbours have 3 cars and a huge work van, they have more than enough space to park them all on their property, they wouldn't even have to do a car shuffle in the morning yet there is never more than one on the drive. All the others are on the road.

Haha don't! I never understand why people do this, but I think a lot of it is territorial pissing - making sure they have all the space outside their house covered with only THEIR cars.

Also people can't reverse.

If you go on another recent parking thread there are plenty of MN folk who park on the road when having a big drive.

@thecapitalsunited

You can’t afford anywhere with parking. HTH.

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.

We have a house with no parking and one car and it's a nightmare - we regularly can't park anywhere near our house. I can't imagine doing it with 3 cars. You'd have to pay for permits for extra cars round here.

@SpongebobNoPants I rent and the garage that goes with the house has been rented out privately so not ideal. I think previous tenants didn’t have a car 😔 I did ask about getting it back but that was declined

The "difference", if it even needed explaining, is that OP has the one car. Her neighbours have 3.

Well clearly it does need explaining, as more than one poster has explained why one household might need three cars. More and more adults cannot afford to move out of their parents’ houses until well into their twenties, or even later. If they live in an area where public transport isn’t good enough to manage without one, how are they meant to get to work? You know - the place you have to go to earn the money to buy or rent one of these magical places with parking spaces galore?

And when young people do leave home, where do you think they’re going? A lot of them are not going straight into single or two-person households. Depending on the area the OP lives in, a three-car household could very easily be a houseshare. Do you expect three independent people to share one or two cars between them? What happens when one moves?

@Peace43

I bought a cottage with no parking in an old mining village where most of the properties have no parking. I have 2 vehicles as do some of the neighbors. We are considerate and park one each outside the house and vehicle 2 somewhere else!

It is possible to manage - you just have to give a shit about leaving neighbors somewhere to park too.

Presumably in your village there are places you can park that aren’t outside someone’s house. In many urban areas if you aren’t parked in front of your house you’re probably parked outside of someone else’s, being considerate doesn’t come into it.

You’ve answered your own question @Wineisrequired. People can’t afford houses with parking space. Just like you.

The incredibly beautiful town house I grew up in had no drive but this was the 1970’s and my family didn’t own a car and most neighbours had one. Car ownership has increased so much. Plus adult dc living at home for longer adds and extra car,

We are a 3 adult household with two cars as DS and I share a car, one car can park on our drive. Luckily almost every neighbour has a drive along the entire road plus it’s a road wide enough for cars in each side. The road I live on does have a premium to pay and part of it will be the easy parking.

The loveliest house we saw when looking to buy had no parking and was on a narrow street. It was a Victorian house it had a laundry Shute, cellar, huge garden, original features which sadly seem to get destroyed in many houses, amazing internal folding doors with stained glass in them. It was truly beautiful but it was obvious the parking was going to be an issue.

But apart from it being what can people afford in some areas it is what housing stock is available. There are many roads of small terrace houses where I live as it’s a mill town. Parking is a nightmare on them but the housing is quite cheap compared to the national average.

Here's my take on things.

Oh, thank goodness - I thought you were going to make us all wait ten minutes instead of five for the next lesson from the pulpit. What would we have all done with ourselves?