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People parking outside your house

4 years ago

Random question but why do people get so annoyed about other cars parking outside their house? What is the perceived annoyance about this? I personally don’t care if someone is parked outside my house.

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OnePlan

4 years ago

We get these helping themselves to my window boxes more often than cars to be honest !

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OnePlan
4 years ago
It’s weird isn’t it . I don’t like it if people park outside my house and open their doors into my lavender. But that’s what you get when you live with no formal front garden I suppose.
E D
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
I live on a fairly busy road and a few years ago the road’s layout was changed and the parking spaces removed.

I’m now used to parking around the corner.

The good news? I never get annoyed by other cars parked outside my house. 😁
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E D
4 years ago
Out of interest One Plan, what do you mean by ‘no formal front garden’?
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OnePlan
4 years ago
My cottage is built on a farm track that has then become a road - so I have no front garden - just an area about the depth of a pavement in the area of the oldest part of the house - and an actaual pavement in the slightly newer part ( still 1800’s !)
Patrina
4 years ago
If you are not a delivery driver, ambulance etc you should not be parked outside my house. My pet peeve is when next door has guests and they park half hanging in front of my drive despite having a lay by less than 10 meters away. very annoying.
E D
4 years ago
Maybe Darren was one of your next door’s guests, Patrina...

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rachelmidlands
4 years ago
I too live on a busy main road in town and I don’t mind people parking in front of the house. However we do have narrow entrance to the driveway and when people park in front of the drive because they’ve got a dentist appointment 3 doors down the road and I need to do the school run...well that’s when the full wrath of a woman’s fury is unleashed🤯.....beeping horns, note on the windscreen, even marched into the dentists to tell them to “shift your blummin vehicle”! So in front of house is fine but NEVER park in front of my drive! 🙂
Best one is when I came out one morning to see this: (kids or drunken louts, we never found out, but it made me laugh 😆)
Jules Mc
4 years ago
You could leave it there and sit on it, moving people on when they try and park there Rachel 😂🤣
rachelmidlands
4 years ago
He he 😂. Either that or I’ll get a cardboard cut out of a traffic warden and attach it to the lamppost 😉.
Sonia
4 years ago
None of us own the road in front of our houses so I cannot understand why people get upset. It’s not illegal. First come first serve, and all that. Now if someone parks in front of a driveway, that’s another matter! However, considering the problems some people have in this world, it’s all seems rather small minded and pathetic.
Ellie
4 years ago
I own the road in front of my house. it's a small private road with 2 houses on it. It does annoy me on the rare occasion that someone parks directly out the front of my house as the neighbours drive is big enough for about 7 cars@
minnie101
4 years ago
I'm on a private road (which we don't own) which sits sideways onto the main road. It drives us absolutely nuts if people park an inch from our living or dining room window plus they frequently block our "porch" so we can't even get out of the house. The house is absolutely perfect for us other than this. Funnily enough we're less annoyed when people park in our own drive! The main road has houses dating back to the 1300's so parking is a major issue other than the few with the original cartways as obviously the houses didn't need to accommodate for parking! We'd probably feel differently living in London or having a front garden but we find it such bad manners to park against someone's windows tbh. We're actually in a position ATM where we will probably move as a result of it as the parking situation will be exacerbated 😭
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OnePlan
4 years ago
That’s such a shame Minnie101, as your home is totally lovely ! ( the bits I’ve seen !) would the council let you install parking bollards I wonder ??
minnie101
4 years ago
Thanks Karen, I know 😭 sadly it's privately owned and they're looking to develop the land behind us into flats with nowhere near enough parking spaces. Just trying to decide where to live if we do move. London is calling me ATM despite a considerable downsize 😂
Anthony (Beano)
4 years ago
i think anyone parking in a street of terraced homes they don’t live in is asking of trouble, esp if they don’t have parking spots of their own.

bit to common sense and common courtesy will go a long way when you pull up somewhere you don’t know and think about parking outside someone’s home.
minnie101
4 years ago
Where's Beano gone? 😭
Sonia
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
My road is all 1930s terraced houses without drives or garages and it is a free for all. We all park anywhere we can find a spot. No one gets annoyed or argues as it’s a problem we all share and what’s the alternative anyway? Some of us, me included, have built garages or parking areas in our back gardens accessible via a service road. I did this because I was sick and tired of coming home after a night out and finding no parking spaces at all! The joy of living in an older terrace.

@OnePlan i love your visitors! 😊

@rachelmidlands hope you recycled that stool and put it to good use! 😊
rachelmidlands
4 years ago
@Sonia 🙂 I might have been tempted to upcycle the stool but the seat had a large chunk of wood missing, neighbour was ridding out some old furniture and left it on the pavement the night before 🙄 so I just put it back.
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The JOY of Blinds and Shutters
4 years ago
Hi Darren, why do people get so annoyed about other cars parking outside their house? Here are some possible reasons:

Hazardous - It might cause difficulties when going in and out of the drive, especially when trying to see around the parked vehicle when traffic is heavy.

Territorial - Just as ‘your home is your castle’, people often extend this to their frontage.

Fear - Who might they be? Could they be burglars??

Aesthetics - Some people feel that parked cars around their property make their frontage look cluttered and untidy - but perhaps not as cluttered as in my photo below!

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