Why do some people think that they own the road outside their homes?

[Isitafullmoon]

I'm trying to get my head around the mentality of people who do this.

Once dh and I had to pull over somewhere, we weren't even getting out of the car we'd just pulled over to take a call sort of thing. We were outside some houses but not blocking anyone's drive or obstructing the road. We weren't parked illegally or on the pavement or anything like that.

No sooner had we pulled over but a quite aggressive man came out knocking on our car window and told us that we can't park outside his house and to move on. He wouldn't go until we left so we just moved and pulled over further up the road.

Another time we drove into a cul de sac to look at a house that was for sale, as we drove into the road, a woman came out shouting at us that we were 'not allowed' in here. Again this wasn't a private estate or a gated community just a normal cul de sac.

Then today I was turning around in a cul de sac when a woman came out shouting at me to go away and waving her arms. Again I was simply turning round not doing anything illegal or blocking anyone.

Are there people who spend their days waiting by the window just to go and shout at random people?

In my experience there’s always a poster on subjects like this who has to make about “ the dreaded boomers” who it seems have no other purpose in life than to cause misery for other generations.

No, my neither. I wish I knew where she lived so I could go and park in front of her house
See your future PP, you could grow into bin lady, turn away now!

I have said to people, look at your Land Registry details. It shows the perimeter of your property and does not include the road.

Plus if the road actually belongs to you, you are responsible for the condition of the road - so any potholes, lines that need repainting come out YOUR money, not the council's.

There is a mum who parks her car on DYLs outside her house, she has a garage and parking bay behind the house. Her house is on the corner to the entrance of my road. She once saw a parking attendant by her car and she rushed out screaming that she has rights to park outside her home. The parking attendant ignored her and duly placed a ticket on her windscreen.

She still parks there the lazy bitch. Before anyone asks, there is no one blocking her in as some allocated bays are not designed for every car to park in there at once.

Oh lovely, nice bit of agism there

Bollocks is it nearly always boomers - its nearly always twats.
My driveway is often blocked by parents (normally mums) going to baby group in the church hall in my road, or other church users. No matter there are plenty of close roads they could park in to not block me in or out - but they cant possibly walk a little further

You must send your DC to a very special school where every parent is considerate of the people that live in that road and surrounding area.

With incidents like this OP, start pointing out that you now know where they live, but they don't know that about you.

Omfg 🤣

Surely you considered this type of problem when you moved into a cul de sac. It’s a well known and common problem of living in a cul de sac.

So that’s your neighbours’ fault for not using their driveways. You don’t own the road.

Wouldn’t your first thought be that they are there to visit someone?

I'm the same. Hate folk parking outside my house. A neighbour of mine hates it too.

My mums car got keyed multiple times and had tree branches threaded into her wipers for parking on the road outside where we used to live. We lived in a maisonette, and despite every building having a dedicated private parking space the neighbour below wouldn't use his and was adamant no one else could park near his flat. Unfortunately we didn't have visitor bays- that was what the road was for.

I live on a terraced street and no one complains about people parking outside our houses, we are just grateful if we can park in the road and not have to find a space 3 streets away

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Logically, I totally get what you're saying.

But I'm still annoyed by the black estate car that parks just past mine. The bloke who owns it actually lives in the next street over, but for some reason feels the need to park it in our road. It's parked perfectly legally, but is just ever so slightly in the way when needing to swing round onto my drive. It's fine, but I'm aware of it every time I pull in and out of my road/driveway.

Someone who lives a few doors away from me is a really friendly, nice man but he goes nuts if someone parks in front of his house, or across the road. He even put a note on another neighbour's car when she temporarily parked across the road from his when her drive was being powerwashed. I think he's probably bored and just looks out of his window all day.