Neighbours have decided that myself and NDN park some of our cars in another street to make it fairer for everyone. AIBU to ignore the request?

[SumoFarah]

I live on a street with unrestricted parking and few driveways. I know it might sound excessive but my family and NDN family have 7 cars between us. I can’t get a drive out in as the street is really narrow so I would need the space opposite to be empty in order to exit.

A neighbour on the street knocked on my and NDN to explain that our six cars take up too much space and means that:

1. neighbours who finish work late can never get a space so have to park on another street and walk
2. their weekend visitors can never get a space
3. on weekends they sometimes have to park in the middle of the road to unload their shopping and then go and find somewhere else to park

We we’re told that ‘they all’ think everyone should agree to use a maximum of 2 spaces to use as they wish and any further space needed should be used in the free car park about 1/2 mile away.

Also that the two teenagers (one mine, one NDN) don’t need cars as they are still in school so should have no need for cars anyway.

I get that parking spaces are at a premium, and can be frustrating when all the spaces are taken, but I don’t want myself or my dc to walk 1/2 mile in the dark (or the light, for that matter) just to placate the neighbours when there’s a space available. All our cars are pretty much used on a daily basis.

NDN told the messenger neighbour that it’s first-come-first-served. I do understand the annoyance but don’t agree with the suggestion because some houses only have one car and some houses don’t have a car, so should balance out in theory, but obviously doesn’t in practice.

Would I be unreasonable to ignore the ‘request’?

Suggestions welcomed.

Why do you need 7 cars?

You are being completely unreasonable

Ask the 'helpful' neighbour if you can take up spaces on the driveways that arent being completely used. I am joking. You must be so annoying to neighbours but ignore them

7 cars between 2 houses? Yeah thats a bit of a piss take.

You are being unreasonable.

You have a drive that you don’t use?

Off topic but how much do you spend on car insurance?

I think you are being quite unreasonable if you take up 7 spaces in the street so there’s no room for anyone else who lives there too

7 cars between 2 houses is quite excessive and your NDN are not unreasonably unhappy, I do get their frustration but you are not doing anything wrong as such, however for the sake of neighbourly relations I would consider parking at least some of the cars elsewhere. We have 4 cars - 2 adult children, we have a garage and 1 space in front which houses 2 of the cars. The other 2 park in a different road about a 5 min walk away because our road sounds similar to yours and we really like our neighbours.

Is it 6 or 7 cars, you've said both.
How many are yours versus NDN? I'm confused why you're counting them together, are you related to NDN?

Legally you can do what you want.
But I am on team neighbourhood I think. You have too many cars for someone with no distinct parking space for them, and if I were your neighbours it would piss me off.

I can see why they’d be annoyed at so many cars but they are being totally insane. I would never agree to something like this.

Reasons for having a car aren't their business, but their request regarding the number of cars sounds very reasonable to me. I think you should do the neighbourly thing.

This how many cars per house? You 6 ndn 1?

What about the people who live on the other street where some of choose to park?

Why didn't you let us vote? You coward.

Yeah you have way too many cars. Absolutely ridiculous to think you can keep that many vehicles with nowhere to actually park them. There needs to be regulations brought in about this, I would make it only one car in the road and however many you can fit on your own driveway only. Roads were not designed for every house to have 3+ vehicles!

YABU.

I wonder why you didn’t enable voting.

Maybe because you know that you are being oh so very unreasonable. Fuck the ozone layer, eh?

You don't want to walk the 1/2 mile in the dark but it's ok for everyone else to?

You are THAT neighbour.

You are free to ignore but 7 cars between 2 households is very excessive unless you have private parking in place. I think parking one car each further away is the neighbourly thing to do

Yeah you've got a ridiculous amount of cars between the two of you, and no it's not really fair your neighbours cant park on the road because of all your cars

They cant force you obviously, it's a public street, but I feel you should have some social responsibility in this situation and park one of youe cars in the free carpark

I'm not clear on the driveway situation - do you mean you DO have a driveway but don't use it? If so, then YABU.
7 cars between 2 households is pretty excessive, almost double anything I'm used to seeing.

Whilst you're not unreasonable as such to park on the street, it IS unfair when you've twice the amount of vehicles other people have.

If you do have a driveway, then you should use it, or consider making space on the front of your property to hold as many of your cars as possible. Or hire a garage for some.

With all that apparent overuse of cars you'd think a swift 7 minute walk now and then might be a healthy option, too

I think having that many cars seems excessive between the two houses but you technically aren't doing anything wrong. I also think you could be more considerate towards your neighbours. Good neighbour relationships do count for a lot so I personally would take this on the chin, I think a 2 car agreement is more than fair. And I'd much rather have a neighbour come to me to try and reach a compromise than finding my car mysteriously scratched.