AIBU to resent holiday-home neighbours taking our usual parking space?

[Chipsanddipsforlunch]

First of all to say, no one on the road has their ‘Own’ parking space, however it’s sort of an unspoken thing that you park on the road outside your own house.
Have owned our home here for fifteen or so years, we live in a beach type place. The immediate next door neighbours have their house as a holiday home, thankfully they don’t rent it out, they come to stay maybe four times a year, usually for a month or two in summer.
Every time they come, they immediately park where we park daily all year round opposite our house. It has a large tree and shade (we live in a hot place) so i’m guessing that’s part of the reason.
Everyone else parks in front of their own houses, it ends up that we have to park in the sun in front of their home, if space or round the corner/far up the road. I have a young Dd, ddog, it’s just the two of them. I’m often struggling walking up the road with bags of shopping from the big shop, my dd etc
They don’t go out that much, so the car is just sat there.
Dh has noticed that sometimes if we’ve managed to park there, opposite our own house and I for example nip out to the shop, the guy next door will come out of the house and move his car into that spot 😂

Honestly, I know it’s so petty, but it’s starting to piss me off recently as it’s hot and more tourists/second home owners parking on the road

Aibu??

For the love of god 😩😂

But he is a Doctor? He doesn't lose the title just because he has retired

I suppose the problem is, what can you do about it? He obviously isn't bothered about taking your spot so I can't imagine there is much point asking him not to! Make a voodoo doll of him and stick pins in it!

I am on OP’s side but if someone did this to me I’d just laugh.

It’s not rude to park in a legal parking spot. It’s rude to think you own it when you don’t.

shes not parking outside her own house but on the opposite side. But can I ask how he is entitled? Isn’t the person demanding that spot remain free for solely them the entitled person.

I’m referring to the weirdly thinly veiled “don’t antagonise the locals!” threat.

I understand OP’s annoyance at her daily routine being disrupted, but there’s nothing she can do about it. They obviously want their car in the shade at all costs lol.

@Chipsanddipsforlunch you don't have any right to "reserve" - even just in your own head - the space opposite your house so YABU.

@Chipsanddipsforlunch - what has your holiday home next door neighbour said when you have raised this with him?

You might think it's "obvious" that he should know not to park outside your house outside the house opposite to yours which you seem to have "bagsied" as your personal parking spot, but if you haven't told him I don't see how it would be obvious that your parking spot is outside somebody else's house and not outside your own.

If you have some informal understanding with him that you will keep an eye on the house when they aren't there, you must have plenty of opportunity to speak to him.

Apart from that, unless the law of the country you live in says something else or unless there are designated parking spaces, anybody at all can park on the road outside your house outside the house opposite you

I could go and park there.

It's because as soon as she moves her car he goes and moves his to that spot.

Thank you! This is how I feel
I won’t say anything, so this whole post is perhaps pointless 😅 We chat to them, wife is very friendly and chatty, but Dh does get fed up of him as he is a know it all and when he arrives he always wants to get going with some task or other on the road and rope Dh in, when dh works full time, is knackered and generally doesn’t have the time nor headspace to give a crap

OP where will you park if the people who own the home you currently park outside relocate permanently to their second home?

oh the old "unspoken rules" nonsense

How do they know, did you tell them?

Because you don't have an official parking space. As irritated as you are by this, you should let it go.

🤣🤣 Yes!

I get your point, moving his car as soon as you go out is petty. Friends had a similar issue a while back (seaside location), they purchased and permanently parked an old banger in the spot that was causing the issues.

If you want to avoid parking issues buy a house with a driveway. It's the only way you can really guarantee to be able to park next to your house. If you have issues then you have some recourse.

It’s complete illegal. No one owns the road outside their house.

Isn’t that exactly what the OP does with the people whose house she parks outside of? When they are there she can’t and doesn’t park there, when they leave she parks in the spot outside their home again.

But does everyone *Have to address him as Doctor…M or can we just call him his name…M?

You’ll have to speak to them about it.

It's annoying, but one of those things.

Just hope they don't sell up to permanent residents with grown up kids with two cars and a work van between them.

Put in a driveway and get a cover for your driveway

It's not.The house opposite her is empty most of the time because it is a holiday home.

@Chipsanddipsforlunch , like with many threads, many of the pp have poor comprehension.