Soldato
Thank you. I needed that chuckle.
parking on street - neighbours say we shouldn't
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Thank you. I needed that chuckle.
The problem with people who use “road tax” is that most of the time they think that because they pay what they call road tax, they have a right to it, over people who don’t pay “road tax”, which is even more annoying than the annoying people who call it VED.
Hang on, if they are parking so you can’t get “parked”, what’s going on with said spaces at the end of the street? Why can’t you just park there and they can?
Soldato
What I mean is for example, you have a drive with 2 cars on and you park a third car on the road outside your neighbour's so as to not block your 2 car in on your drive. Now your neighbour has to park at the end of the street and struggle down on foot with their shopping. Why can't you park your third spare car at the end of the street instead or in front of your drive. Be a bit neighbourly instead of just thinking of yourself.
I guess the thought would be why aren't they on their drive?
Soldato
Not everyone has turned their garden into makeshift driveways yet.
Soldato
Maybe if they had they wouldn't have to be un-neighbourly by insisting on forcing their neighbour's disabled mother to have to struggle to walk down from the end of the street the couple of times a year she visits.
See, I can do hypothetical situations too.
If the person with 2 cars has turned their garden into a driveway, they've already done you a favour, otherwise they'd be parking 2-3 cars on the road every day, instead of just 1 on the odd occasion they have a visitor
Soldato
Maybe if they had they wouldn't have to be un-neighbourly by insisting on forcing their neighbour's disabled mother to have to struggle to walk down from the end of the street the couple of times a year she visits.
See, I can do hypothetical situations too.
If the person with 2 cars has turned their garden into a driveway, they've already done you a favour, otherwise they'd be parking 2-3 cars on the road every day, instead of just 1 on the odd occasion they have a visitor
No it's like having your cake and eating it. Leave your spare car at the end of the street or put it in front of your drive.
Soldato
Sort of like having a front garden and still expecting to be able to park right outside your house then?
You accuse others of not being neighbourly, whilst simultaneously insisting they inconvenience themselves for your benefit, when they've already sacrificed their front garden (or at least a large chunk of it), and paid a decent amount of money to convert it to a drive to reduce the number of cars they park on the road from 2 to 0 except on the odd occasion they have visitors...
Soldato
Sort of like having a front garden and still expecting to be able to park right outside your house then?
No it's not like that. People come and go and park where there is space and people usually accept that. This is clearly someone taking the p.
Soldato
From your perspective. Try seeing it from theirs.
Sort of like having a front garden and still expecting to be able to park right outside your house then?
It is bigger than that, with everyone having their own car so their own 'rights' that go with it. tbh the world is a more selfish place and pompous.
Soldato
To be honest, there's a simple solution, if it's that much of an issue, buy a house with a drive, or convert your garden to one. That way you don't have to worry about it ever again
One of the many reasons I would never buy a new build house on a new build estate. With both parents working and "kids" staying with their parents longer into adulthood, it's not unusual to have 3 or even 4 cars in a household, so why on earth are developers allowed to build 3-4 bedroom houses with a drive barely big enough for 2 cars on an estate with no parking areas and narrow roads which limit on-road parking?
Honestly it amazes me when I see this. 1 car, then any more parked in the very limited spaces around the area, but everyone is fighting for them. The houses only 2 minutes walk from me start from £750k, are about 5 years old now. They have a garden that's so small it's literally the size of a car, and the driveway out front is the same, 1 car big. I don't get why someone with that much money to spend on a house would buy a house with so little outside space to use.
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You generally find a mixture of parking provision - some are suitable, some not. Ours has off road parking for 4 cars - something I insisted on. Others don't, so we didn't buy those (The oddest thing is that there wasn't much price difference between the sometimes quite different levels of parking provision I found).
The problem comes when people are so desperate for a new build that they pick the one with a single space despite the fact the household has 5-6 cars and a works van... because who cares right? Just leave them in the road...
Soldato
It baffles me why people buy houses without enough parking and/or buy more cars than they can conveniently store, all stemming from the presumption that the number of cars in a household must be equal or greater than the number of adults.
My neighbour has a 5 car driveway and 4 cars. Clearly the best thing to do is park 2 of their cars on the road, 2 that never actually move...ever, parked so defensively that they take up the space of 3 medium sized cars.
I'd love a driveway but the highways agency won't let me without a dropped kerb, and I can't have a dropped kerb due to the parking restrictions in the cul-de-sac where I live. Another x2 neighbours have removed the small wall at the bottom of their front gardens and made a hard standing area...which they also don't park on. Not sure why but must be something to do with hard standing and pathing rules.
Also we're in walking distance to a major county hospital so lots of the staff park during the day for free, that coupled with many student/HMO housing make it amusing sometimes.
I've stopped letting it get to me now, life is too short.
I'd love a driveway but the highways agency won't let me without a dropped kerb, and I can't have a dropped kerb due to the parking restrictions in the cul-de-sac where I live. Another x2 neighbours have removed the small wall at the bottom of their front gardens and made a hard standing area...which they also don't park on. Not sure why but must be something to do with hard standing and pathing rules.
Also we're in walking distance to a major county hospital so lots of the staff park during the day for free, that coupled with many student/HMO housing make it amusing sometimes.
I've stopped letting it get to me now, life is too short.
Man of Honour
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Man of Honour
I wrote out a reply but you wouldn't listen so pointless.