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 🤣

A family with 4 cars has bought the driverless house two doors away when there are plenty in the area same price with drives. Now their cars are constantly parked outside our houses down a small cul-de-sac. Also feel very sorry for elderly neighbour whose drive and garage they always block just because they don't have a car, it's still incredibly rude! There's been so many angry car horns battles of people not being able to get past since they moved in, it's ridiculous!!!!

I think she's frustrated by the number of cars when they are "doing it".

Why is that so hard for people to grasp?

It's not hard to grasp - but there are plenty of legitimate reasons for households having multiple cars.

I get it's annoying but it's just a daft thing to get so worked up about. We're a two-car household as DH works 45 minutes drive away (has to drive as he needs to carry his tools to/from work) and I'm a dog walker so need my car to transport dogs and to get between appointments.

Neither of us could do our jobs without vehicles, but unfortunately we live in a small coastal town with very, very limited parking options, so we have to park on the street.

We'd move if we could afford the extra 50-100k for a house with a drive

if you aren’t parked in front of your house you’re probably parked outside of someone else’s

Why does that matter though? There will still be a car outside your house.. it’s not like you’re trading a beautiful AONB with a Fiat Panda.

@Ratatattatpat

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?

Because you all have jobs that can't be accessed by public transport? (which is practically anywhere not within walking distance if you live where I do).

My ex and I both had our own cars. I had to have a car to do my job, which meant that he needed one to use when I was working. He then changed jobs and got one with a company van, but he wasn't allowed to use it for personal journeys. Hey presto, 2 job changes and we went from being a 1-car household to a 2 cars and a van household.

And my late partner and I were even worse. We had a car each, and a motorhome and a motorbike. Only one of them would fit on the drive, and if it was the motorhome, the bike had to stay out on the street.

Here we have some entitled git who has a secondhand car business. He stores his trade vehicles on the roads and footpaths around us. One day earlier in the year there were eleven. Some don't even have registration plates. The police went round the other day but absolutely nothing has changed.

[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]
Then isn’t this your answer @Wineisrequired ?You’ve done the same as they have? I have a house with two cars and no parking, just like nearly everyone else on my road. This is the way life is going, other people can’t afford to buy houses with parking

@BarkingUpTheWrongRoseBush

My thoughts exactly. I look at old photos of our street (pre 1930s) and there are no cars parked all along and you can see kids playing on the street.

We have allowed the car to become far too dominant in our towns and cities. Many more people would make short journeys by bicycle instead of by car if the roads were a bit safer. I am seeing more and more parents with young children with those cargo-type bikes with seats in the front now which is a good start towards reducing car dependency. But obviously you need roads with fairly slow-moving traffic for them to feel like a safe option

Unless you live in a village or suburb with more space and where off street parking is normal, many people don’t have a choice.

We used to live in a street of terraced houses which were mostly converted into flats. Most of those people had a car, none of them had drives. Clearly parking was an issue as there was nowhere near enough space for the number of cars.

We had a car, arguably we didn’t truly need one as we didn’t use it for work but it was a significant convenience. We could live with the parking headache as we weren’t driving every day or trying to park at the busiest times.

Ultimately to solve this problem you need to find away to make the price of convenience for people like us who didn’t truly need a car too great, or there to be an incentive for not having a car. If, say, households without a car could have 10 miles a week free of charge on a local car club, we might have given our car up.

I jyst leave the car stored & use my bike instead, that way I don’t have to worry about finding somewhere to park. Only use the car for trips over 5/6 miles. It’s made life less stressful tbh

The best thing you can do is try and get your area to become a permit only, controlled zone. Allocated permits per household. See if they keep the same number of cars then.

In the town where I live, there's a waiting list for permits. The number of permits issued is between 1.5 and 2 times the number of available spaces. The second permit per household is incredibly expensive, to try and discourage car ownership. New houses have been granted planning permission with conditions attached that rule out anyone living in those properties being able to get a permit.

People who've bought those houses now park outside the parking controlled area and use the on-street parking on outlying estates, so those residents who could park for free now can't get spaces.

[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]
Because it's what they could afford in the area they wanted to live in. Just like anyone. We buy the best we can afford and put up with drawbacks. They have prioritised other things over parking near their house.

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

Eh? So the OP comes on here to ask if they’re being unreasonable, people say yes and here’s why, and they’re called ugly?

@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.

My near neighbours have 7 cars, we all have drives big enough for 3 at least so his other 4 vehicles are on the road. Not so bad as we've a big wide street but unfortunate for his nearer neighbours when they want visitors.

Cant say houses with drives are that much more expensive here, but not every street has drives, theres a lot of terraces with no off street parking at all.

OP I do have sympathy.

My neighbour converted his garage so now he and his teenagers park their (4) cars up and down the road and opposite a junction. I take my life in my hands trying to reverse out because I'm totally blinded by these parked cars.

God I love our residents parking zone. I pay that fee with grateful pleasure. Sod off freeloaders or get a ticket!

@MsTSwift

God I love our residents parking zone. I pay that fee with grateful pleasure. Sod off freeloaders or get a ticket!

^^ exactly.

And this is the reason why they exist.

Any disputes before then are people shouting at clouds, so to speak -

If there's no restrictions, then anyone can park as many cars as they want, anywhere along that street.

@Frazzled2207 we have two cars because we both work at different locations that neither of us can walk or cycle to. We couldn’t afford to live in either of the locations where we work as they’re too expensive. I imagine a third car will likely be used by a child of the family who also has to get to work or college. It’s pretty understandable.

Because parking is daily low on most people’s priorities. If I was moving I’d be looking for:

Good schools
Enough space
Convenient for work/leisure/family
Safe area
Garden

Only at that point would I start worrying about parking.

I’d happily suck up poor parking for a three bedroom terraced house near the train station, with nearby good schools and a nice convenient town centre. In somewhere like Winchester that’s going to cost £600-800k without parking.

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

YABU. You knew parking was on street. It's none of your business what others do. The road is public property and whoever likes can park there.

This thread is mad.

A poster starts a thread with the headline:

Why buy a house with no parking if you have 3 cars (my italics)

Another poster perfectly reasonably responds

You can’t afford anywhere with parking. (my italics)

And someone else immediately batters into them. Whyyyyy?

What a funny question. People buy houses that they can afford believ me theyvhavr better things to do than doing it to wind up their neighbours.

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

It really doesn't, given that most gazillion ££ mansion blocks will be owned by people who have drivers a phone call away so don't have the need for parking. Imagine they also have large country properties with enough garages for a McLaren in every colour.

@StillCoughingandLaughing

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?

Your point is..?

Your point is..?

That you’ve been weirdly aggressive and condescending throughout this thread.