AIBU to refuse moving my son's car from a public road?

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Our house is in a corner plot at the bottom of a cul-de-sac. We have converted half of our front garden into an additional drive so we now have parking for 3 cars, which we have.

Unfortunately our working hours can cause us problems when it comes to parking our cars as it’s a long single drive so cars are parked behind one another.

My DH and I both leave for work at 3.30am and sometimes my DS doesn’t get home from work until 11pm, so to save as playing musical cars at 3.30am (and potentially waking the neighbours) my DS parks on the road opposite when our shifts do clash. However, the people who live in the house were my DS sometimes parks in front of have been asking us to move and park somewhere else saying that they have family coming over and need the space, there is space for 4 cars, they had 1 car of family visiting. The last couple of times they’ve asked us to move we have, but now I’m really annoyed about it and have us much right to park there as everyone else as it’s a public road.

For clarity, we can’t park on the road in front of our house as we are in the corner and would block neighbours drives.

I agree - it's like a mania for them. In fact, I often think that it's the argument and the drama that they want most of all, with the demands only being an arbitrary excuse to prive thenselves 'right' and you 'wrong'; so by pandering to all of their demands and removing any reason for them to complain, that actually makes them the most unhappiest of all!

I hope he didn't move. And he never should. Ignorant, self absorbed CFs like these people will take a mile if you give them an inch. Avoid talking to them. If you haven't already got cameras up that show your son's car when it's parked there, do get some.

My neighbours complain that I ask them to move their car. Out of MY OWN space
they also say blocking me in is reasonable and I should just ask them to move
people are batshit

Nope. Your premise is unsound. There is nothing even remotely unreasonable about parking on a public road. It's not even on the same planet as unreasonable. But it is grossly unreasonable of them to ask him to move and ridiculous if they get on their high horse about their unreasonable demand being ignored.

They are cheeky fuckers and they need to be put in their place or they will continue assuming they can make ridiculous demands.

The CFs are trying to instigate conflict. By ignoring their demands completely and behaving like a normal person, OP is not engaging in conflict. If they escalate the conflict they are trying to cause OP can involve authorities, if required, or continue to ignore.

Yeah sounds like a pain and an eyesore. What can you do though. You can't choose your neighbours.
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I’m not saying it is “ their space “ Of course the law says that people can park where they like
Very few people on our road have drives but if someone parks in front of my house I don’t just go and put my car in front of my neighbours house knowing they usually park their own car there . I park in a parking bay further down the road .

But then I like & get on with my neighbours. Maybe it’d be different if they were rude to me !

However liking and getting on with your neighbours doesn't mean not parking in a public space. If her neighbours were pleasant people and easy to get on with they would not have overstepped by making this unreasonable demand.

I like and get on with my neighbours. We've been friends and good neighbours with all of them for nearly 2 decades. But one of the reasons we all get on so well is that none of us are twattish or entitled about stuff like this. We'd all park on the road wherever a space was available.

It's not their own house, they don't live there. And there aren't going to be any parking restrictions that give guests priority spaces on public roads outside friends houses over neighbours.

Why don’t you move one of the cars out before you go to bed so son can park on drive when he gets home and you can take your car at 3.30? I doubt they’ll be having regular visitors overnight that need to use the space.

Just explain that you dont want to be moving cars in the middle of tge night and that you will park your cars on the road if you need to and request tgey dint ask you to move it again as you will not be doing so.

Had a similar issue when I was growing up. The neighbour lost his rag and smashed into my brother's car. Came round sheepishly after obviously seeing red but smy brother's car was written off. Never underestimate entitled neighbours!