Yes a parking one - it confuses me

[pontipinemum]

OK so it's my mums house and I know the neighbour are doing nothing "wrong" or illegal at all it just confuses me.

All the houses have driveways, they fit 1 car. Plenty of space to park outside all of the houses and it's a cul de sac at the edge of town so no passing traffic that ever blocks it up

The neighbour has a car, she parks on her drive. But if her children are visiting they park in front of my mums house yellow and blue, leaving the front of her house with no cars in front of it. If I am down I then just park in front of neighbours house which I don't think they like, 1 'child' said something about wouldn't it have been better to park outside the other house further down the street or something.

I grew up on this road, but not in "mum" house. I've known the neighbours my whole life and they are lovely people I just don't get it!

Am I being unreasonable to think they should park in front of their own mothers house?

There are just many strange people about OP. Next time they say that to you, ask why they parked in front of your mums house and not theirs

It’s a bit strange yes. I would have said something when they asked why you parked in front of their mums house.

OP
It could be something as simple about their car is more at risk in front of their parents home EG, cars making a 3-point turn, reversing out, the road possibly being a bit more narrow, or a lampost/pole in the way or they can keep an eye on it better from their seated position

As you said they can park there and that is the bottom line. I hope my post has helped to ease your mind.

something about wouldn't it have been better to park outside the other house further down the street

Well usually I park directly outside my Mum's house, but someone else has today 💁

I’m lazy so like to park as close to where I am going as possible. Maybe they have difficulties parking there? I’m not sure I can see the issue though, surely it doesn’t matter where they park as long as they are not blocking anyone in?

I park outside my sisters neighbour because if I park outside my sisters I'm opposite a drive.

I would definitely say this! It's weird to not park outside their own mum's house unless there's something at play you haven't noticed.

@DistinguishedSocialCommentator the impression I have is that the OP is just pondering why they're parking where they are rather than needing posters to ease her mind.

Where are your opposite neighbour's drives?? It could be that parking outside your neighbour's house makes it harder for the people opposite them to get in or out of their drive?

I'd just keep parking outside the neighbour's house until they challenge you again; and then ask why it matters, what's wrong with parking there.

Oooh. A diagram made in excel is a first for me.

😂love it!

I think she meant I should park in front of the neighbour the other side - they don't have a car, never have.

No there doesn't look to be any reason they wouldn't want to park outside their mums house. Both houses are well down the road off the main road - about 10 houses down so no worry of passing cars hitting.

The neighbours right across (again who I've known my whole life) are very sensible people you wouldn't be worried about them reversing out at speed hitting your car. They have widened/ lengthened their drive way so both their cars are on the drive.

The road is probably about 3.5 car widths wide. So if two cars were parked at each side of the road a car could still very comfortably drive down the middle. But the across the way neighbours don't park on the road.

There is a big turning area at the top of the road.

No it's not a big deal at all. It just makes me think "right".

The neighbours right across (again who I've known my whole life) are very sensible people you wouldn't be worried about them reversing out at speed hitting your car. They have widened/ lengthened their drive way so both their cars are on the drive

It's not about worrying about them reversing out and hitting your car, it's just polite not to park opposite a drive unnecessarily, no matter how proficient a driver the owners of the drive are.

People can be very strange about parking, I've learned that in the last 6 months since I started driving.

I've had a similar issue where there's a few drives, but custom is everyone parks on one side of the road if they don't have a drive, there's room for 2 cars mostly, but if everyone had two cars then it'd make it Very tight iyswim?
One of the houses has a car (no drive) and they often have another visiting car. The visiting car nearly always parks outside my house, and because of the layout of the road, there's only really one space outside my house that doesn't cover a drive or put you on double yellows.

I have then come home and parked in the space outside their house (I'm not precious about the space in front of my house, I just want to park relatively close to where I live) because they're in the space outside mine, and got asked to move because it's their house - and then shrugged at when I pointed out that their second car was in front of my house meaning the only space was in front of theirs.

I just park there now if they're in the space in front of mine, and ignore, just do the same, like I said, some people get really odd about parking!

We park outside a neighbour's house who parks in her own drive. She's fine about it. We do it because the brain dead moron opposite has TWICE failed to put on her handbrake (sloping drive) and TWICE has written off our cars when they were parked outside our house slightly diagonally opposite her drive. A third time, one of her brain dead children reversed off the drive way too fast in his car and scraped all down the side of our car! There's no way we're parking outside our own house again and risk a FOURTH incident because of her (and her family's) stupidity!!

@YellowDots ah yes I get what you mean. You wouldn't be parked across from their drive if you parked in front of their mums house. The road was built circa 1950 and the plots are pretty generous. With boundary wall, maybe 10 ft of garden, house, garden/ drive, boundary wall.

@Carnewb I get it, I've lived in places with more cars than spaces. No one has a space and the same on this road no one owns a space. But apart from very very occasionally (someone having a party) there is always loads of spaces in front of all the houses. There is space in front of their mums house and they don't park there. I don't get it

I love that they park outside your mums house and then they comment when you park outside their mums when they are parked where you want to park and they could park! This is so random! 😂

@taxguru well ya I wouldn't blame you one bit for that!!! No their across the road neighbours are def not morons. I used to spend a fair amount of time in their house growing up, their DD is around my age.

@strawberry2017 it's like they want to keep the front of the house clear and IDK what for! But as I said they are lovely people and clearly no one owns the road. I just don't get it. There are 4 'kids' in total but 2 live abroad and don't hire cars when they visit home so there is always enough space for them both to park in front of her house when visiting so it's not like the space outside hers was full and they parked further down the street. In front of hers will be clear and they park in front of my mums.

I know we all have our ways. I lived on the other side of that street growing up and we always turned our car before parking in order to face direction of travel

It's the fact they actually commented on it that makes me laugh. They are commenting on something they themselves are blatantly doing. It literally is so silly!

I agree if there is loads of parking along the street, it's weird to specifically park opposite somebody's drive; but if it's a busy road with lots of call on the parking, they just have to accept that they will have to manoeuvre to get in and out of their drive.

Having a drive means that you must be allowed adequate space to access it, but some people have the bizarre idea that they also have the absolute right to be able to sweep in and out smoothly across the public road, even if that means other people don't have anywhere at all to park.

A friend of mine used to have her own space (private, came with the property that she rented) and a man who had a garage with the access to it next to her space tried to insist that she shouldn't be allowed to use her own parking space, just because he had a personal preference to how he accessed his garage, rather than the other (equally obvious and no more difficult) way that didn't require him using her parking space as a spot for manoeuvring. He was also one of these tiresome people who believed that having lived somewhere longer, and owning it, gave him supreme rights over the property of a more recently-moved-in renter neighbour.

However, I will never understand the people who seem to have a paranoid fear of anybody parking on the road outside their own house - even when they have no desire to park there themselves. I'd understand if it were an enormous muddy tractor covered in animal poo or a bright orange removal lorry; but just an average family car offends them so much.

Having nothing better to do in your life than to knock on a neighbour's door to tell them to move their car from a space on the public road - just because you personally want that particular section kept empty, so you can gaze on the beautiful unadulterated tarmac there - is CF in the extreme and such a waste of everybody's time and your own headspace.

It makes me think of those parents who scream at their kids for swearing and ordering them not to do so - whilst unleashing a torrent of expletives at them in so doing!

Is it? Never heard of that. On most residential roads that would leave nowhere at all to park!

Some people don’t like to see a car parked outside their house - it spoils the view .
I suspect your parent’s neighbours are like that which is why the adult kids won’t park there but are getting an ear bashing over you parking there. I also suspect that the kids know it’s batshit but it’s easier to comment to you than argue with the parents - as the saying goes you can’t argue with batshit!

I'm guessing that there is probably a property opposite the OP's house, which also has a drive. The OP has already said that the road is plenty wide enough for parked cars opposite people's drives to not be an issue.

I'd understand (not that they'd be any more reasonable to demand) if they had a view of mountains, lakes or open fields from their front window; but most of these people are just looking out of a suburban standard 3-bed semi with views of... other suburban standard 3-bed semis opposite!

I wonder if these are the same kind of people who really want to live next to a major (preferably invisible) motorway for their own convenience, but one that nobody else is allowed to use as well, as they don't like other people's noise or fumes?!

This.

I'd ignore them, or look puzzled and comment, but you're parking outside my house.