Been asked to park my car further away from my house to be more convenient for person's guests

[ParkingFeud]

We rent a terraced house on a green with no parking. There is space outside our house for one car and the other has to go somewhere on the green. Someone on the other side with a drive has just asked me not to park my car near their house as it is inconvenient for their guests and work men. They wanted me to park it on a separate street further away from where we live. Was I being unreasonable to tell them quite sharply that I would love to be able to afford a house with a drive but there's a housing crisis and I can't. So my car can be parked anywhere legally that I fancy. I don't understand people who think they own the road outside their houses.

no i wouldnt move unless it was anice one off request-why do their guests trump you

OP is parking outside her own house - but the people opposite want to use it

Even if the OP were to move their car from the public parking space just to keep the neighbours happy - but what's to stop someone else parking there before the builders turn up?

Is she? I thought it was her second car they wanted moved from outside the other house?

Cheeky twats. I would suggest they park their own car on that street, thus leaving their drive free for their guests.

I would understand if it was for one day....... in case workmen needed to park car to unload stuff?...

I probably should attempt a diagram but no, they are annoyed one of our cars is sometimes outside their house (but not even visible to them as behind a wall!). But if it wasn't mine it would be somebody else's as all the on street parking is fairly full, especially in the evenings/at weekends and there are quite a few houses without parking here. The car is only there because that is where the space was at the time of parking it. I don't use it loads as wfh so it hasn't moved since the weekend. I don't log where I park it, it just goes im whichever the biggest available and legal space is at the time of pulling up.

In answer to others:
I have moved it before when asked for a day or so but this was a general request. So odd.

Might do a diagram over lunch, you all deserve it 🤣

Why would the OP take steps to make sure her neighbour isn’t inconvenienced by inconveniencing herself? The most convenient place for anyone without a drive is outside their own house; I wouldn’t be parking on another street to help my neighbours out? Obviously if someone is already parked there, she’ll have to go elsewhere but parking on the road is first come first served.

Because she could have answered the question just as well by not being sharp? The standard "No, that doesn't work for me" would have been enough. OP's finances and the housing market are actually irrelevant and not the other person's fault.

Name change fail, @spuddy56?

No need for a diagram, really, your posts are perfectly understandable without.

Oops oh well, I though parkingfeud was more relevant 🤣

i don’t understand them.

She's parking her second car on the other side of the green, outside other people's houses, but perfectly legally.

It doesn't move often, so it's been outside the neighbour's house for a few days now meaning that their visitors have to park further away. However, the road is busy and so if OP didn't park there it's likely someone else did.

OP, I would say YANBU to park there, they ANBU to be a bit annoyed at a car being outside their house not moving for days on end. But you win this one as you are perfectly entitled to park there. For neighbourly relations I'd try make sure you don't always park outside their house, but otherwise carry on as you are.

On the green? The other side of the green?

I don’t get what green is being referred to. On another street?

Diagram would clear it up.

If your car rarely moves why don't you put that one outside your house then the one that's moved more often can be parked in an available space, so your neighbours aren't permanently inconvenienced?

They swap about a bit. I honestly don't give it much thought. At the moment we are both at home and both cars are here. The smallest car (the one that doesn't move much) tends to get the smallest spaces as it is tiny and I feel more comfortable leaving it further away from the house in the road spaces as it is ancient. Maybe its not attractive enough to be outside someone's house...it is very ancient 😮 It just gets put wherever the easiest spaces are to get into as does everybody else's car who doesn't have driveway space, or is visiting the church, village hall, school or park etc.

Some people even have loads of cars and drives but they overspill onto the green....the horror!!!

The neighbour can park further away and leave their drive for guests or workmen.

Our neighbours once asked us not to park our car in front of our house "because it lowers the tone of the neighbourhood".

Let's just say, she was disappointed.

It's pretty annoying when people with more than one car buy houses with only one parking space then park outside other people's houses so their neighbours then have no parking space.

They are relevant, given this particular neighbour owns a drive yet STILL wants OP to park in the next street to suit their convenience.

Their neighbours do having parking space.

Be firm but polite, you've every right to park there. Might not be a good idea to be too rude to people, lest you find your tyres have been let down or the car keyed.

Some posters on AIBU are a bit mischievous, especially on the ubiquitous parking and wedding threads. They like to pull the OPs' plonker (and sometimes that works in reverse).

Remonstrations to 'be kind' and accommodating any CF's totally unreasonable demands is an endless source of entertainment around here, but I refuse to believe anyone IRL is quite this wet.

It does sound like legally you can park there, so on that basis YANBU. For the good of neighbourly relations though, I would park your less-used car in front of your own house and vary where you park your second car. I do think it's unreasonable when people always or often choose to park in front of the same house or leave their car parked somewhere like that for days on end, unless there really is no option. I can understand why that would annoy and inconvenience a neighbour. I'm not saying this about you personally, OP, but some people who choose or need to have more cars than they personally have parking for can sometimes appear a little too 'entitled' to park them wherever they like and forget to consider their neighbours' needs too.

Presumably the neighbours paid a premium to buy a house with a drive. Does owning a drive mean you forgo the privilege of parking on the street?

We have a drive, and only one car, the neighbours have no drive, but they own three cars despite only having room for one car outside their house. Therefore they take spaces outside their neighbours houses.