ugly parking causing frustration

[RoxyMoosic]

Live on a street of semi detached houses. It’s a ‘nice’ area. Most houses have room for 2 cars. Depending on configuration could fit 3, or just 1 if a larger area of garden instead of driveway.

the crux of the matter is that residents are parking on the street. E.g house over the road has room for 1 car on the driveway. They moved in a few years ago and bought the house knowing this. Yet have 2 cars and permanently park 1 on the street outside their house. All in a quite considerate manner btw. But I just think is stupid and inconvenient on their part anyway.

other residents park on the street despite having room on the driveway, presumably because they can’t be bothered reversing in/out every time they want to leave.

house a few doors up inexplicably owns 4(!) cars, with room for only 2 on the drive, with regular visitors too parking all over the place.

when the street is chocked up with cars I just find it so unbecoming and quite frankly ugly . It didn’t used to be like this even 10/15 years ago, when people had only enough cars that they could fit on their driveway…. I feel this was helped by the fact that they were often older couples who only had one car…. and those who invariably buy the house are families and have more cars than they can fit on their property.

so… AIBU to think on-street parking is ugly and ruins the look of the street…?

👍 your point was good, about the well being aspects of having clearer spaces. I agree there with the OP that it is nicer. I don’t think anyone could reasonably argue with it. And I’m pretty sure everyone would prefer off street parking. Surely no one likes parking on the street.

The OP though seems to be expressing their point of view from an utterly detached from reality standpoint, and that’s why they are being very, very unreasonable.

How many of them are SUVs aka Chelsea Tractors? This may explain the reluctance to reverse into and out of drives in some cases.

What annoys me is when households park their car on the road when they only have one car and a drive. Annoys the hell out of me.

Then again parking on the road in my village actually helps to slow people down. You wouldn't believe the speeds people drive past my house.

I don't see a problem with people having two cars and parking one on the road. Swapping cars round is a PITA. And having four cars? Yep, that's modern life. It's nobody's fault. Many families can't afford houses with lots of space around for parking cars.

Most modern cars now have parking aids. Rear cameras things like that.
If you can't get your car on your own drive you shouldn't be driving

It must be tricky for you to get anywhere you need to go without ever using a car in your life. Because presumably you’ve never used a big ugly metal box. You’re not like us stupid car obsessed people that need to get a lot of places quickly to facilitate modern life where work days are longer and employees are forced to be more and more flexible in addition to working family life. Of course you don’t add to any of this ‘clutter’ because you’d never use a car or accept a lift or call a taxi.

@Momicrone i refer you to my earlier post about my commute. The route isn't suitable for a bike (part of it is on the motorway) and there's no public transport.

YABU.
People are allowed to park on the road.

Anything else doesn't affect you, since you and your guests always park on your drive.

In the development I lived in (where despite plenty of allocated parking, people were obsessed with parking as close to their front doors as possible), the journey from concrete house to metal box looked like the only, much needed exercise most of them got.

Either this is clearly a piss take or you’re being absolutely ridiculous.

@Disneyblueeyes I agree but about 25% of people have driving licences who are unfit to drive, some sadly for medical reasons, others (usually sexually inadequate men) because of their conduct behind the wheel.

She can only drive one at a time

My nice area has a restricted covenant that bans parking on the street overnight. It preserves the nice wide open feel of the neighborhood. No works vans, caravans, boats , etc allowed on the drive for more than 24 hours either.

The catch is that kind of restricted covenant comes with both hefty annual fees and other restrictions to your choices.

its the ideal kind of place though for people who crave this kind of calm uniformity.

. but not the countryside as they will need a dreaded car

thats an assumption on your part

Kanaloa- I know this may blow your mind but quite aot of people live their lives rarely getting into cars

Personally I hate parking on the drive. Looks so messy. And parking inside your garage just looks so cluttered.

Ideally you need to dig a deep trench in your front garden, lower the car in with a crane, and cover with fake grass. It’s the only aesthetically pleasing solution.

*alot

Changeychange the only aesthetically pleasing solution is no car or a bike

But if you hate them so so fervently I presume you never ever get into one. Because if you do ever get in one then you’re contributing to the ugly clutter of them.

It may blow your mind to consider that many people couldn’t facilitate working full time and bringing up a family without a car. Or even that a lot of people don’t hang their lives on obsessing over how ‘cluttered’ the road outside their house looks.

A lot is two words. HTH.

Whoosh ☝

What does whoosh mean?

That’s the sound cars would make if the streets weren’t so cluttered and they could zoom up and down happily.

They do that already surely, given the amount of pedestrians who die on the roads?

😂😂😂😂 Heard it all now. Lol.

Ugly is objective.
I find overly manicured gardens ugly. I find bark ugly. I find decking ugly.
Does that mean that no one in my street should have or do these things? Absolutely not. Means that I choose not to have them or do them.

I technically have parking space for 2 cars as have a garage and a drive. I choose to use my garage for storage and keep one car on the drive and park the other on the street. I'm parked legally and not inconsiderate and happy to park further away if I can't get outside my own house.