Just a rant really. I live on a terraced road, on a hill. The opposite side of the road to me is on a slant, when you park there your car is leaning sideways at a noticeable angle, and you can't open the doors on the pavement side because they hit the pavement. I have a neurological condition that makes mobility a struggle for me at times, my core is very weak a lot of the time, as are my arms and legs. I find it really hard to get out of the car when I have to open the driver door uphill and get out at that angle, and I have previously had to ask people to help me get out. I am also a lone parent to 2 children under 6, and it makes it extremely hard for me to get the children in and out the car through only one side, at a difficult incline. My side of the road is pretty flat.
My neighbours often see me struggling with getting from the house to the car and vice versa, yet they still continue to dump their cars outside my house (they are a young couple with no kids, and when I say dump I mean they throw it in at any old angle, in the middle of a space that would be big enough for 2 cars, when their side of the road is completely clear) leaving me to park outside their house instead and spend the next 20+ minutes trying to get myself and 2 children out the car and across the road. I've made passing comments to them about how much I struggle with it, not wanting to be demanding about them leaving the space outside my house free when it's a public road and legal for them to do so, but would it make me an a-hole to ask?
The rest of the street all park outside their own homes with no quibble whatsoever (everyone keeps their cars confined to in front of their own homes as far as possible and we have very few non-resident cars here), it's just this one couple that will just throw their cars wherever there's the biggest space, and it's usually outside my house because I work long hours and get back the latest, and I'm really starting to feel stressed about the daily physical battle to simply be able to get myself and my kids into the car. I am considering asking the council if they can put any sort of disabled or permit bay on the flat side of the road for me, but I expect it would be a big hassle and in the unlikely event they approved it I'd probably have to pay for it, which I simply can't afford. I rely heavily on my car too, which means I'm in and out of it multiple times a day and it's becoming very physically difficult for me. I just don't know what to do, and moving isn't an option either.