Anyone else live on a new(ish) estate and...

Lily-Rose_3

LutonGirl wrote: »

I live in a 1960s close with very limited communal parking where one neighbour has a double garage full of stored stuff, a double drive that can accommodate 4 cars and a pair of adult sons who've moved home because their relationships have broken down.

They all have a car each, at least one other being "done up" on the drive at any time. Each lad also has a van for work and girlfriends coming and going as well as exes dropping off and picking up various grandchildren.

Mum and Dad shuffle all the cars into the communal spaces so as to save spaces for their lads on their drive.

I imagine a map laid out with toy cars on it and them with sticks pushing the cars around on their kitchen table like Churchill in the war rooms as they plan their daily parking strategy.

Ah-ha, MORE of the 'entitled-to-so-I-will-do-what-I-want-and-to-hell-with-everyone-else' brigade!

They are rife in this country, and they are rude and pig-headed and mock people who think different to the,, because they are THAT arrogant and jumped up. God forbid you block THEIR way or park cars in front of THEIR drives though! :rotfl:

DRP

Lily-Rose wrote: »

It's my OPINION. It's my OPINION that it's a nuisance, and plenty of people agree, unfortunately for you.

And just because my opinion doesn't tally with YOURS, that doesn't give you the right to make snarky remarks like 'stop curtain twitching.'

See, this is what I was on about in my post, about the pathetic and childish remarks from people who think it perfectly OK, to leave your car outside someone's house.

Thanks for proving me right. I rest my case...

I was asking a genuine question - how exactly is it a massive nuisance?

Does it stop you living your life in the normal way? if so, how?

To me (opinion), it seems it might be slight inconvenience if a caravan or large van was parked right outside your window all day fro weeks blocking light in the room ... but apart from that I can't see the nuisance factor of people parking on your road.

but a 'massive nuisance'? please explain

Lily-Rose_3

DRP wrote: »

I was asking a genuine question - how exactly is it a massive nuisance?
Does it stop you living your life in the normal way? if so, how?
To me (opinion), it seems it might be slight inconvenience if a caravan or large van was parked right outside your window all day fro weeks blocking light in the room ... but apart from that I can't see the nuisance factor of people parking on your road.
but a 'massive nuisance'? please explain

Let's face it, no matter WHAT I say in response to this, you will mock it, counteract everything I say, and try and ridicule me. (As you already have.)

I don't respond to goading. You will have to pick on someone else. Byeeeee. :wave:

Unitoons

People who stress over cars parked outside their house have way too much time on their hands! My neighbour used to moan about cars parking outside - he was retired and used to spend hours twitching his curtains and getting all worked up! Seriously - get a life! Why do you need a clear view from your front window? What view is the car blocking - the houses on the other side of the road?

I live on a normal street where people park on the road - some days I can park outside my house, some days I can't! It is no big deal. In fact, when I cycle to work there is a car parked outside my front window all day - mine!!

phoenix_w

DRP wrote: »

I was asking a genuine question - how exactly is it a massive nuisance?

I'd imagine smaller incidents combined will add up to a "massive nuisance". For example, it may be a nuisance when the man from DFS can't deliver your new settee because he can't get sufficient access due to inconsiderate parking. It will be a bigger nuisance when the undertaker has to rush you into a funeral cortege because dumped cars means he can't park outside your house. It may become an even bigger nuisance when you are forced to park 6 streets away from your house and carry your heavy shopping such a distance, etc.

I think it's a perfect storm. Councils won't let businesses and developers provide realistic parking provisions, people dump their cars in residential streets and normal people suffer in some way.

Mrs_Imp

Lily-Rose wrote: »

I am with the people here who say that it a massive nuisance. And obviously the ones who think it's OK are the ones who DO it! And obviously don't have it happen to them!!!

Even if they are not doing anything 'wrong' or illegal; it's still inconsiderate and rude. As someone said earlier; the people that think it's ok for them to park where the hell they want, are often the same arrogant and ignorant types who play loud music, have loud parties, and don't give a fig what other people think or how other people are affected. There is something of a sense of entitlement in the attitudes of these types of people.

They are the 'if I am allowed to do it: I WILL' brigade. Sometimes, just because you CAN do something, that doesn't necessarily mean you SHOULD do it. And just because it's legal for you to do it, that doesn't mean that people don't have a right to be annoyed by it.

An old neighbour of mine, used to park all over the place; him and his stupidly large family; cars, vans, motorbikes, everywhere, frequently blocking us in; and this one time, someone from down the road, parked RIGHT in front of his front hedge, on the grass verge, and he went BALLISTIC. It was there all day, and he was ranting about it incessantly.

Absolutely laughable and hilarious; it was OK for him and his family to dominate the road and the verges with their vehicles, but God forbid anyone parks in front of HIS house!!! I can imagine the people on this thread thinking it's acceptable to park where they fancy, and that the people complaining, should 'suck it up' would react like my old neighbour too. Constantly parking where THEY want, but ranting if someone does it to them.

And I am finding the frankly rather stupid and sarcastic comments, aimed at the people who are annoyed by people parking outside their house, childish and pathetic.

The fact that people are mocking the people who get annoyed by people parking outside their house, (and they have a right to be annoyed) really says more about them.

Like I said, it's the 'If I can do it I will, no matter how much it annoys other people' brigade.

Wow. A great many sweeping statements there.

I don't have a problem with people parking outside my house on a public road, and I will quite happily park further down the road if thre's no parking nearby. The only time it was a 'massive nuisance' was when I was 8 months pregnant and had to cart my sleeping 2 year old and my heavy work bag from 25 houses away. Of course I like to park near my house, but after a 90 mintue commute, a little walk and fresh air is quite nice really.

I'm not 'entitled' to park outside my house, and I would argue that the 'entitled brigade' are those who believe that no-one else is allowed to park outside their house.

Deliveries regularly block the road, and no-one who lives here minds at all, and if there's loud music or a party, chances are the neighbours are invited too.

AdrianC

Lily-Rose wrote: »

Let's face it, no matter WHAT I say in response to this, you will mock it, counteract everything I say, and try and ridicule me. (As you already have.)

I don't respond to goading. You will have to pick on someone else. Byeeeee. :wave:

Your posts in this thread say quite a lot about your personality, Lily-Rose, and are absolutely consistent with your attitude to people parking on the public road.

cinnamon442

My dad died a few years ago and the funeral car had to wait on the road because a bunch of people had parked all up the street to drop their kids off at the primary school at the end of the road and have a chinwag. I'm not sure about massive inconvenience, but it was damn upsetting to see your dad's coffin loitering in the street and the driver concerned because he was blocking the road.

I currently live in a terraced house with no parking, but there is a road round the back that you need a permit to park on. However, you only need a permit to park Monday - Friday between 11am and noon. One hour five days a week. It's supposed to deter people parking for the station but what actually happens is you get people turning up at 10:55, moving their cars for an hour and then plopping them right back. Pointless but funny to watch from the window.

We also have a garage and get parking enforcement vans parking there, blocking all the garages, which is a fun sort of irony.

dirty_magic

Lily-Rose wrote: »

I am with the people here who say that it a massive nuisance. And obviously the ones who think it's OK are the ones who DO it! And obviously don't have it happen to them!!!

Even if they are not doing anything 'wrong' or illegal; it's still inconsiderate and rude. As someone said earlier; the people that think it's ok for them to park where the hell they want, are often the same arrogant and ignorant types who play loud music, have loud parties, and don't give a fig what other people think or how other people are affected. There is something of a sense of entitlement in the attitudes of these types of people.

They are the 'if I am allowed to do it: I WILL' brigade. Sometimes, just because you CAN do something, that doesn't necessarily mean you SHOULD do it. And just because it's legal for you to do it, that doesn't mean that people don't have a right to be annoyed by it.

An old neighbour of mine, used to park all over the place; him and his stupidly large family; cars, vans, motorbikes, everywhere, frequently blocking us in; and this one time, someone from down the road, parked RIGHT in front of his front hedge, on the grass verge, and he went BALLISTIC. It was there all day, and he was ranting about it incessantly.

Absolutely laughable and hilarious; it was OK for him and his family to dominate the road and the verges with their vehicles, but God forbid anyone parks in front of HIS house!!! I can imagine the people on this thread thinking it's acceptable to park where they fancy, and that the people complaining, should 'suck it up' would react like my old neighbour too. Constantly parking where THEY want, but ranting if someone does it to them.

And I am finding the frankly rather stupid and sarcastic comments, aimed at the people who are annoyed by people parking outside their house, childish and pathetic.

The fact that people are mocking the people who get annoyed by people parking outside their house, (and they have a right to be annoyed) really says more about them.

Like I said, it's the 'If I can do it I will, no matter how much it annoys other people' brigade.

This is a complete generalisation. I park outside other people's houses because I HAVE to. There is no road outside our flat.

I have had one party (housewarming) and the only place I listen to music is my car. I'll quite happily help our neighbours out if they need anything and I certainly don't only think about myself! I think I'm a pretty good neighbour tbh.

What exactly do you expect people to do if there is no alternative to parking outside someone else's house?

AdrianC

dirty_magic wrote: »

What exactly do you expect people to do if there is no alternative to parking outside someone else's house?

Well, sell your car, OF COURSE. Duh...