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AIBU?

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Original poster

A parking one!

64 replies

prettyprinceofpartiez · 27/10/2022 17:04

We live on a quiet road on an estate in which everyone has a drive with at least one parking space on it. Outside our house we have a small path leading to our front door and our driveway with a dropped kerb to our right. Admittedly outside our house isn't a dropped kerb and the pavement runs alongside our front room so our view is literally the street.

The people on the road behind us (who have their own driveway!) have taken to parking outside our house, next to our path, mounting the kerb as there is a shortcut path to their road from by our house. After several months of this, I left a polite note asking them to park further along as they have blocked access to our path. They've done so but are now parking right outside our house and front window! I know it's not ours, but really?? Why on earth would we want a view of their car right outside our house? Why not park on their own driveway?

AIBU or am I right to feel pure rage when I look out and see them parked right outside??

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ParentallyUnprepared · 27/10/2022 17:07

Diagram.

elaeocarpus · 27/10/2022 17:10

Park there yourself for a while?

The estate near me built in visitor bays right outside some houses windows- ca 1 m garden between car and window. Some residents have put a number of very large planted trees in pots/troughs in those bays.

Not sure how that goes down with other residents

MarigoldPetals · 27/10/2022 17:10

You are right to feel annoyed. Some people have no consideration for others.

Sistanotcista · 27/10/2022 17:13

OP, you know the rules! There must be a diagram…

Bestofthree · 27/10/2022 17:13

You want them to not park on a public street just because it obscures your view? That's not your right. Apologies if I have misunderstoof and you own the land.

OriginalUsername3 · 27/10/2022 17:16
  1. Diagram.
  1. You chose a house with a living room window directly on a public road, obviously you weren't going to have a nice view out that window.
NippyWoowoo · 27/10/2022 17:18

YAB batshit U for not wanting them parking in front of your house Confused

RincewindsHat · 27/10/2022 17:18

I mean, obviously YABU because it's a public road and you chose to buy a house on a street like that but...YANBU because people just don't need to be twats about stuff like this. They should park outside their own house. Be 'that person' who buys cones and puts them on the road 😁

EndlessMagpies · 27/10/2022 17:24

Marmite is your friend here.

I say no more. Grin

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prettyprinceofpartiez · 27/10/2022 17:26

Apologies, attempted to draw it on a free app on my iPhone 😂

Everyone pretty much confirming what I think which is logically they've every right to park on a public street (which by the way is a small quiet estate with literally just a hundred or so houses, not in town or anything) but I just would never permanently park outside someone's front room when I have my own perfectly useable driveway 100 feet away - it just feels rude!

Understand that I'm being U here so will bite my tongue and when we get a second car in a couple of months will use the space for myself!

A parking one!
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prettyprinceofpartiez · 27/10/2022 17:27

OriginalUsername3 · 27/10/2022 17:16

  1. Diagram.
  1. You chose a house with a living room window directly on a public road, obviously you weren't going to have a nice view out that window.

Actually it's quite a nice view - we look onto some other pretty Cotswold stone houses and some beautiful woods. Except they're now blocked!

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BowiesJumper · 27/10/2022 17:30

I can’t work out the diagram, but yes, park there yourself to break the habit. Is there only room for one car?

InsertPunHere · 27/10/2022 17:30

You can’t object to people parking legally on the road because you don’t like the view.

PuttingDownRoots · 27/10/2022 17:31

I'd be tempted to talk to them... explain its blocking light into your living room for example if it is directly by your window

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prettyprinceofpartiez · 27/10/2022 17:32

Will also point out I'm already riled that these people use our drive to turn around too. God when did I start caring about this stuff 😂

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prettyprinceofpartiez · 27/10/2022 17:34

BowiesJumper · 27/10/2022 17:30

I can’t work out the diagram, but yes, park there yourself to break the habit. Is there only room for one car?

Outside our house is only room for one car, but there's plenty of room along the road. Though why they can't park on their OWN road is anyone's guess.

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SpookyPanda · 27/10/2022 17:37

prettyprinceofpartiez · 27/10/2022 17:27

Actually it's quite a nice view - we look onto some other pretty Cotswold stone houses and some beautiful woods. Except they're now blocked!

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Well now it's a view of a car

SpookyPanda · 27/10/2022 17:37

prettyprinceofpartiez · 27/10/2022 17:32

Will also point out I'm already riled that these people use our drive to turn around too. God when did I start caring about this stuff 😂

You're justified to be annoyed at thar.

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prettyprinceofpartiez · 27/10/2022 17:38

InsertPunHere · 27/10/2022 17:30

You can’t object to people parking legally on the road because you don’t like the view.

It's legal I agree but it's socially a bit odd especially if you knew our road/area. It's not a road with cars parked all along outside because every house has their own driveway and it's private estate. We're allowed to object to things that are legal but irritating to us. This is basically what AIBU is...!!

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FaazoHuyzeoSix · 27/10/2022 17:44

You don't own the road. Anyone can park there. YABU. No one owns the road outside their house and if there is no dropped kerb and no yellow lines you should assume that it's all fair game - you can take this into account when buying a house and I bet your house sold for less because the front room looks straight out onto a legitimate public parking place than other houses on the same street with a more private outlook.

Blossomtoes · 27/10/2022 17:47

EndlessMagpies · 27/10/2022 17:24

Marmite is your friend here.

I say no more. Grin

Don’t be ridiculous. It’s a public road.

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prettyprinceofpartiez · 27/10/2022 17:52

FaazoHuyzeoSix · 27/10/2022 17:44

You don't own the road. Anyone can park there. YABU. No one owns the road outside their house and if there is no dropped kerb and no yellow lines you should assume that it's all fair game - you can take this into account when buying a house and I bet your house sold for less because the front room looks straight out onto a legitimate public parking place than other houses on the same street with a more private outlook.

Agree that it's legal and I'm probably being U logically. But all houses are exactly the same and have a pavement outside and a road, and a driveway with a dropped kerb. So perplexing as to why they choose not to use their driveway or their own public pavement outside their house, and instead park outside our house

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MajorCarolDanvers · 27/10/2022 17:55

They shouldn't be on the pavement but otherwise it's a public road and they have every right to be there.

Awoooga · 27/10/2022 17:59

I’m with you OP. Of course they can park on a public road if they choose to but it’s weird of them to do so when they own their own parking space.