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

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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??

No it’s the coming straight out and parking his car there, coupled with his general manner where he acts like he owns the whole street

You don't have the right to dictate which part of the road people park on. Very simply, you don't own a spot, so you park wherever there is a space available. You've erroneously awarded yourself some kind of exclusive rights to a spot in your head. You are being ludicrously entitled. You have no more right to the space than your neighbour, none at all.

If having a dedicated parking spot is this important to you, you need to move somewhere that includes a private parking space.

The telling people that they have to address him as Dr only emphasises this more

You seem to believe you own the street too.

you like the shade... he likes the shade...

I kind of want to know where it is so I can go and park my car in the shade!

I understand that neighbourhood parking is a contentious issue in A LOT of places, but I think that if you choose to live on a street with no allocated parking, then you have to be ok with people parking wherever they like (as long as they are parking legally of course, and not in a dickish way like blocking your access gate). I mean, you can get annoyed about it, but you’re really just raising your own blood pressure for something you should just let go.

Nope just have respect for others and would think it normal to if you can, park outside/opposite your own house when you can
Everyone else does, so can’t be just me, I don’t see them as being entitled at all

Its annoying ,but each man to his own here really! I mean the space you like is shaded and I imagine they prefer that too.

YABU. You must know you are. Of course whoever can take the premium parking space will do so. Your attitude is very childish.

Presumably he's just correcting people who mistakenly address him incorrectly. The correct form of address for him is Dr M..., and anyone deliberately ignoring that is just plain rude. He shouldn't have to correct you more than once.

I'm obviously missing something. The Doctor is your next door neighbour. You both park on the opposite side of the road to your homes. You are both basically parking outside your homes. What exactly is the issue?

For example, it’s been parked there for two days, he hasn’t moved it, been anywhere. I will pick dc up shortly and car will be like an oven, i’ll have to wait for steering wheel to calm down etc. It’s not a huge deal but he acts very entitled, if that spot is not free, he’ll go further up outside another house that has a little shade/space where the family literally always parks their families cars outside their house, so they then have to find elsewhere

You’re joking right? I don’t think people have to be told how to address others? We just call him by his first name

So just get shades or à cover for your car.

It’s rude to call someone Indy if they’ve asked to be called Dr Jones.

He doesn't want to be called by his first name though - he's made that clear. Why wouldn't you respect his wishes?

Sorry, but you're just making up rules in your head (to benefit yourself). If parking isn't allocated, it's first come, first served. Obviously people tend to choose to park near to their homes for their own convenience, but you don't have any rights whatsoever to exclusive use of the space directly in front of your opposite neighbour!

If your prefered spot is in use, just park in the next closest free space! It's that simple.

You should address people how they asked to be addressed. This is like complaining that Benjamin won't just let you call him Ben 🙄

And he has just as much right to that space as you do so I think it's pretty entitled to be annoyed you don't always get it.

I don’t call him anything, this has been relayed back by others on the street, we have many professional people, we’re all down to earth, no one is better than anyone else, he’s up his own arse!

He's not saying he is better. He's politely letting you know that he doesn't want that level of familiarity with his neighbours.

Ask the council to plant more trees, or do it yourself. It’s silly to be fighting over some shade.

It's not being up your own arse, or thinking you're better than anyone else to want to be addressed correctly.

It's silly to make such a fuss about a public road which anyone is entitled to park on.

Doesn’t matter. If he’s doesn’t want to be on first name terms, it’s rude AF to persist in calling him by his first name.