Neighbours and parking - is this seen an normal and fine?

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Our neighbours have 2 adult sons at home so have 4 cars and only 2 spaces for parking. We have one space but 2 cars so use the space on the road outside our house. If someone is parked there then I just go to the end of the road and turn right - it’s a walk past 6 terraced houses so not far and there’s lots of space.

Space outside our house doesn’t belong to us so it’s first come first serve so often next door’s son parks there. All fine.

Now the bit that annoys me. They’ve recently begun strategic parking so if son goes out, they move their car from their garage to save the space. I find it really irritating that they’re monopolising the space. I just think it’s a selfish dick move. (I’ve don’t agonise over this but saw them doing their manoeuvres a few moments ago and wondered if it’s a normal thing people do). I think I’d understand more if parking was significantly limited but there’s lots at the end of the short road and this bit is a small cul de sac.

Our neighbours used to do this and they’d also put cones out to save their space. Really annoying.

Yeah I think it's a dick move if there is no more to it.

If my mum is coming over we will put a car on the road instead of our drive so mum can park on the drive, but she has mobility issues so can't walk far and it's much less stressful for her knowing she can park on the drive. That happens maybe once every two months or something though.

Mine are the same. I really detest them. They are loud, inconsiderate, let their dogs soil everyone's front garden and now their kids have cars they hog parking.

I caught them recently crossing onto my drive with one vehicle to avoid shifting the one behind it. Apparently they didn't expect me to return home just then.

Mine does this too! He's a bully in other ways and tries to dominate the neighborhood.

Selfish but nothing much you can do.

Move your car there first and don't use it for a week, that'll teach them and save you money

It's very weird, how many people are so invested in where they park. It's also a bit alien as I grew up in the centre of a city (and live in the centre of a different one now) - people just have to park wherever they can find a space.

My neighbour used to do this. He had a disabled space outside his house but when his daughter went to work, he'd move his card out of his space and into hers to keep it for her. Then she must have phoned him when she was about 5 minutes from home and he'd move back into his disabled space again.
Complete and utter dick.

Urgh. I have a neighbour two doors down who have god knows how many adult kids at home plus classic cars etc. driveway holds two cars and is ALWAYS empty. My end of the road doesn't have drives and it does my head in when I have to carry sleeping children half way along the street cos they keep their drive empty and park 5 vehicles in the street. But, as you said, we don't own the road outside our house do we?

Wankers.

My wife's parents, who don't drive, have neighbours across the road that park big vans outside their (in-laws) home, despite having an empty full width driveway. It makes it extremely difficult to enter their driveway due to a telegraph pole and other parked cars.

Years ago we live in a terraced house on a street with no off street parking. Street parking was always in short supply.
I had a one year old and new born twins, so 3 children under 2.
If I could park within sight of my front door I would bring the babies in and then get the groceries. If I was far away I had to use a double buggy and a sling and do multiple trips over and back to the car to bring whatever I could fit under the buggy with me each time.
My elderly neighbours had a disabled spot outside their house but they used to park their ,very rarely used car, outside mine and sit at their window and call parking enforcement if anyone parked in the disabled spot.
i think it was their favourite entertainment.
it was a big factor in us selling up and moving to somewhere nearby with off street parking.

Ok I'll be honest we do this because parking can be difficult late at night. We have one reserved space outside of the garage and use of a residents car park, unfortunately we like many others have lots of cars (4 in our case, 4 next door, at least 3 houses have 3) so on weekends when some people are back from London, lots split their time, parking is hard, we take the car from the reserved space rather than the other car shuffling them if needed ... we park one on the street mostly and dd2's is away where she is currently thankfully!

None of the houses here have drives, we just have a small communal parking area. A few of the neighbours have what they perceive as "their space" even though none of them are actually allocated and there aren't enough to go round. I have no idea why they think they get dibs on the spaces. It takes a lot of will power not to get petty and park there at every given opportunity.

My old neighbour used to do this. Her bf would go out so she would move her car across the 2 spaces to save him a space. I started moving my car right behind hers so when her bf got home she couldn't move it back. Petty I know but I enjoyed it! Haha

I can understand why this is annoying for you but I don't think they're doing anything wrong. We bought a house with a parking space and there were then spaces to park on the street. We bought when we owned two cars knowing we'd manage to have one of the spaces on the street because DH works from home and I finish work relatively early. Having to find a space to park is annoying, why would you make it difficult for yourself? If either of us popped out anywhere we took the car on the drive - why wouldn't you?

I don't understand why people do this. I'd consider it more of an inconvenience to bother to go out and move the car than to just park slightly down the road.

That's not what they're doing though. One person is taking their car (parked on the road) and someone else is then moving their car from the garage to the road to save the space. They aren't just taking out the most convenient car.

Obviously they're entitled to do it though.

It is best to avoid living in a place where parking is at a premium if this is going to bother you. They may see it as reasonable, given you have one space but need 2, and they have 2 but need 4.

It isn't. They are CFs.

It's literally public road... I'm amazed everyone is getting so wound up about this!

I have no idea why they think they get dibs on the spaces.

Because there are a lot of entitled CFs in the world who can't see beyond the ends of their noses.

What sad little lives they must lead!

It’s even worse than that, they’re taking the car off the drive to save the space in the road that’s not even outside their own home. It’s outside OP’s house

Yes - idiots. Couldn't be bothered with the hassle, would rather walk a few hundred yards.

We have even worse CFs on our road - people who put their wheelie bins in the road to save the space outside their house. So no one can park there. There's 3 or 4 houses that do this - some have quite elaborate setups with bins chained together and such so it's a huge pain to try and move them.

A year ago there was only one person on the road that did this. It's slowly spreading and it enrages me tbh.

@LemonDrizz The only defence of this, and rational explanation is the driveway neighbours may get blocked in their drive by other peoples bad parking. For example I have a drive, it's a tight road, with cars parked either side. If someone parks OVER where my kerb starts to drop on either side I have no chance of getting out, so I have to park on street. Which would look totally dickish without understanding why.

Of course your neighbours could just be parking bellends, in which case I take it all back, and I don't get it either.