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Post by Skellinton on May 25, 2020 15:05:21 GMT
My special problem is when they park over or partly over your driveway so you have to track them down to get out! Yes. It happens regularly. This is the only time it bothers me. It kind of amazes me that people don’t realize that parking halfway across someone’s driveway could be a problem.
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Post by paperamy on May 25, 2020 15:06:56 GMT
I only get upset for two reasons: if they block my mailbox (our mail carrier will not deliver if a car blocks the mailbox) or if they park so close to my driveway that I can’t see past their car or have a hard time backing out without hitting them.
My sister has college kids who live across the street and they will park on either side of her driveway and directly across from her driveway. Now that would piss me off.
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Post by Skellinton on May 25, 2020 15:14:37 GMT
Also, I had to deal with a crazy person who would call the school were I work and complain when I parked by her house. It pissed me off, because there is no option for us at our school to park anywhere but the street in front of houses. The space in front of the school is a school bus zone and there is no school parking lot. During summer I would park in front of her house (leaving plenty of room around her driveway ) because she had a tree that didn’t leave a bunch of weird pollen on my tree but provided shade as leaving work at 4 after working all day in an un-air conditioned school was miserable when I had to park in the sun.
Public street, I don’t care if it irritates people, I think people that get upset about it in areas where they have adequate driveways and the cars aren’t blocking anything or doing anything illegal need to get over themselves.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 15:46:17 GMT
Also, I had to deal with a crazy person who would call the school were I work and complain when I parked by her house. It pissed me off, because there is no option for us at our school to park anywhere but the street in front of houses. The space in front of the school is a school bus zone and there is no school parking lot. During summer I would park in front of her house (leaving plenty of room around her driveway ) because she had a tree that didn’t leave a bunch of weird pollen on my tree but provided shade as leaving work at 4 after working all day in an un-air conditioned school was miserable when I had to park in the sun. Public street, I don’t care if it irritates people, I think people that get upset about it in areas where they have adequate driveways and the cars aren’t blocking anything or doing anything illegal need to get over themselves. This is why we didn’t buy a house next to a school. All the staff parked in the street because it was closer to the front door and the shade. The parking lot was nearly empty. The staff started parking straight in, pulled right up to the fence. ( no sidewalks or curb). Some of the houses had more than 4 cars practically in their yard. I drove by that house and the owners put in a curb and back filled in with stone.
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Post by tincin on May 25, 2020 15:46:42 GMT
DH parks on our drive, I park on the road outside. There is space outside our house for 3 cars when parked considerately. Most visitors don't park considerately, so that only 2 cars can park there. If I get home from work at 8pm with a boot-load of groceries to unload, and find that 2 cars have parked outside our house leaving no space for me, and I have to park in the next street, I do get irritated. Especially when one of the cars belongs to the neighbour in the next street, outside whose house I now have to park, because he doesn't like parking on a steep hill yet that's the house he chose to buy. And before lockdown, I used to attend a crop on one Saturday per month. Only 1 day. But that Friday night when I got home at 8pm, someone had always put their car outside our house meaning I had to make multiple trips to carry a boot-load of scrap-crap round the corner and down the steep hill the next morning. It just always seemed to happen then. I was joking with DH that we needed a "crop cone" to put on the road! Perhaps your DH should park in the street on crop nights so you could park in the drive.
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Post by myshelly on May 25, 2020 15:50:51 GMT
I don’t get the being upset because people park directly across the street from your driveway.
Are you trying to back out an 18 wheeler? Do you normally just back up straight until you hit the curb across the street?
You should be able to back out of your driveway even if there’s a car across the street.
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Post by Sharon on May 25, 2020 16:14:55 GMT
Yes it is a problem. My drive hold one car and our other car parks in front. If somebody parks in my spot, then where am I suppose to park? Down the street? No the neighbor’s guest can park down the street. And get the hell off my lawn. And quit blocking my mailbox so they don't deliver the mail!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 25, 2020 16:29:08 GMT
I live in the city, so it's a free for all as to where you can grab a spot at any given time.
Most people don't have a garage or driveway, so street parking it is.
I've had to park blocks away at times, when neighbors had multiple guests, but whatcha gonna do about it? Not argue, that's for sure.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on May 25, 2020 17:09:30 GMT
DH parks on our drive, I park on the road outside. There is space outside our house for 3 cars when parked considerately. Most visitors don't park considerately, so that only 2 cars can park there. If I get home from work at 8pm with a boot-load of groceries to unload, and find that 2 cars have parked outside our house leaving no space for me, and I have to park in the next street, I do get irritated. Especially when one of the cars belongs to the neighbour in the next street, outside whose house I now have to park, because he doesn't like parking on a steep hill yet that's the house he chose to buy. And before lockdown, I used to attend a crop on one Saturday per month. Only 1 day. But that Friday night when I got home at 8pm, someone had always put their car outside our house meaning I had to make multiple trips to carry a boot-load of scrap-crap round the corner and down the steep hill the next morning. It just always seemed to happen then. I was joking with DH that we needed a "crop cone" to put on the road! Perhaps your DH should park in the street on crop nights so you could park in the drive. Our house is built on a hill. The driveway is an uneven slope and round a corner. DH got a crossover purely so he could park on it. My car is only small and doesn't have a long enough wheel-base to get onto our drive without grounding. We've tried it several times over the years and you just can't. When my current car needs replacing, I'll have to think about getting a taller one, but I'm only short.
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Post by scrappinheather on May 25, 2020 17:17:36 GMT
I find it annoying because people are very discourteous. I live near a trailhead but my house is gated. Our land is near the street. I have no problem with people parking on the street but they will often leave trash, filled dog poo bags or sometimes even a dirty diaper on our land. Why do people think it’s ok to dump their nasty stuff on other people’s property? Yesterday a lady in a Lexus got out before hiking and peed next to our mailboxes, who does that?
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Post by MichyM on May 25, 2020 17:23:05 GMT
Threads about parking in front of one's house always surprise me. Maybe it's because I live in the city, but where people park doesn't bother me. I do understand if someone has parked in such a way that the mail carrier won't deliver. In that case, I'd recommend doing what a friend of mine did when she was having that problem, just add a "no parking within 15 feet" sign to your mailbox post. Worked like a charm for her.
As many others have mentioned, we don't own the area in front of our homes. Of all the things to get bothered by, this is one I choose to let go.
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Post by lisacharlotte on May 25, 2020 19:33:36 GMT
If you have to park on the street or parking is allowed on your street, you should have realized that might be an issue when you bought/rented. I live in a neighborhood with small/few garages. Most people have to park on the street. My particular street has no parking at all. The trade off is that it's an alternate arterial and the speed limit is 30mph. But, I don't have to deal with anyone parking in front of my house. I can't complain now that people drive 30mph, visitors have to park down the street and around the block, and my street is busier. I knew these things when I bought the house. I don't see the purpose of being permanently pissed off about something you cannot control. I also wouldn't want to be the neighbor who tries to tell other neighbors where people are allowed to park.
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Post by myshelly on May 25, 2020 19:39:04 GMT
If you have to park on the street or parking is allowed on your street, you should have realized that might be an issue when you bought/rented. I live in a neighborhood with small/few garages. Most people have to park on the street. My particular street has no parking at all. The trade off is that it's an alternate arterial and the speed limit is 30mph. But, I don't have to deal with anyone parking in front of my house. I can't complain now that people drive 30mph, visitors have to park down the street and around the block, and my street is busier. I knew these things when I bought the house. I don't see the purpose of being permanently pissed off about something you cannot control. I also wouldn't want to be the neighbor who tries to tell other neighbors where people are allowed to park. Could you explain about the 30 mph comment you’re making? 30mph here is the standard speed for a residential street that people can park on, so when you’re saying it’s a trade off, what do you mean?
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Post by lisacharlotte on May 25, 2020 19:47:45 GMT
myshelly most of the residential streets in my neighborhood are 25, parking on only one side (very narrow streets) and some have speed bumps to slow the traffic. My street has a double yellow line, no parking, and 30mph. Most people drive much faster than posted and it's a busy street cutting north/south. So my trade off was a busier street (which does impact resale because a lot of people with small children won't even consider living on my street). But, nobody parks in front of my house! 👍🏻 My neighborhood was developed over 100 years ago, so it's old, has narrow streets, lots of density, fewer garages, lots of converted large houses into multi-family units.
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Post by katlady on May 25, 2020 19:48:40 GMT
If you have to park on the street or parking is allowed on your street, you should have realized that might be an issue when you bought/rented. I live in a neighborhood with small/few garages. Most people have to park on the street. My particular street has no parking at all. The trade off is that it's an alternate arterial and the speed limit is 30mph. But, I don't have to deal with anyone parking in front of my house. I can't complain now that people drive 30mph, visitors have to park down the street and around the block, and my street is busier. I knew these things when I bought the house. I don't see the purpose of being permanently pissed off about something you cannot control. I also wouldn't want to be the neighbor who tries to tell other neighbors where people are allowed to park. Could you explain about the 30 mph comment you’re making? 30mph here is the standard speed for a residential street that people can park on, so when you’re saying it’s a trade off, what do you mean? Not the OP, but in California the speed limit on residential streets is generally 25MPH.
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Post by Skellinton on May 25, 2020 20:04:27 GMT
Could you explain about the 30 mph comment you’re making? 30mph here is the standard speed for a residential street that people can park on, so when you’re saying it’s a trade off, what do you mean? Not the OP, but in California the speed limit on residential streets is generally 25MPH. Oregon and Washington too. Portland is 20.
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Post by prettyprettypaper on May 25, 2020 22:13:03 GMT
Because some people like to carry on as entitled a-holes, as if that section of public property is their own private property.
I think it is nice when neighbors are considerate of each other and park in front of their own homes. However, even if someone ends up parking in "my spot", the bottom line is, it's not my private property so I really have no right to it any more than anyone else does.
When we have gatherings at our home, we actually park further down the road so our guests can have the space in our driveway and in front of our house.
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Post by refugeepea on May 25, 2020 22:29:48 GMT
If it's an annoyance because of the layout of the area, I understand. If they think they own the spot, I think it's dumb to be annoyed. There's a house a couple blocks away that has a sign on their mailbox that says No Parking. Private Parking Space. No, it's not.
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Post by 950nancy on May 25, 2020 22:32:29 GMT
I don’t get the being upset because people park directly across the street from your driveway. Are you trying to back out an 18 wheeler? Do you normally just back up straight until you hit the curb across the street? You should be able to back out of your driveway even if there’s a car across the street. Where we live, the streets are wide. Where I grew up, the streets were very narrow and only two cars could be on the street. Anyone parking in the road would cause problems. Because the streets were very narrow, the driveways seemed longer. Not all streets are created equal.
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Post by myshelly on May 25, 2020 22:39:05 GMT
I don’t get the being upset because people park directly across the street from your driveway. Are you trying to back out an 18 wheeler? Do you normally just back up straight until you hit the curb across the street? You should be able to back out of your driveway even if there’s a car across the street. Where we live, the streets are wide. Where I grew up, the streets were very narrow and only two cars could be on the street. Anyone parking in the road would cause problems. Because the streets were very narrow, the driveways seemed longer. Not all streets are created equal. Even in places with wide streets, parking garages and parking lots are tight. You should be able to back up with a car behind you.
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Post by 950nancy on May 25, 2020 22:43:17 GMT
Where we live, the streets are wide. Where I grew up, the streets were very narrow and only two cars could be on the street. Anyone parking in the road would cause problems. Because the streets were very narrow, the driveways seemed longer. Not all streets are created equal. Even in places with wide streets, parking garages and parking lots are tight. You should be able to back up with a car behind you. Yes, but cars right behind you make it much more challenging. If you have lived on one of these streets, you get why people don't like it when people park directly behind you. It makes it another obstacle. Wide streets are much easier. I'm not saying people shouldn't park on the street. I just understand why people don't like it.
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Post by refugeepea on May 25, 2020 22:46:23 GMT
(our mail carrier will not deliver if a car blocks the mailbox) Forgot about that! Our post office is apparently quite picky about *plenty* of space to deliver mail in their tiny little trucks. When we had regular appointments for my son at our house, we asked them to never park behind the mailbox.
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Post by scrappinsportzmom on May 26, 2020 0:58:00 GMT
I posted a similar question to a local FB moms group and got skewered with the responses. I am so happy to see that 2peas girls have opinions more like what I think.
We have lived i our house since 1987. Our little neighborhood used to be at the edge of the city limits. It has changed from family residences to a lot of rental properties. We live on the corner. Right next door and across the street are 4 bedroom houses that parents bought for their kids who are attending the local university. The house across the street is quite busy with kids coming and going. One young man chooses to use the spot right in front of our house as their regular parking spot. it drives me crazy because they park there even when the driveway is empty and there is no one is parked on the street in front of their house. I don’t know if my husband said something but he finally quit parking there all the time.
We have adult children who run by the house and it irritates me that they can’t park right in front of he house. That’s why it bugs me so much.
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Post by dewryce on May 26, 2020 1:13:17 GMT
Even in places with wide streets, parking garages and parking lots are tight. You should be able to back up with a car behind you. Yes, but cars right behind you make it much more challenging. If you have lived on one of these streets, you get why people don't like it when people park directly behind you. It makes it another obstacle. Wide streets are much easier. I'm not saying people shouldn't park on the street. I just understand why people don't like it. I agree, especially when people park right on the edge of your driveway as well because you can’t turn as you exit.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on May 26, 2020 10:47:16 GMT
I don't care unless they do it on trash/recycling day. The truck guys are super picky and if there is a car parked anywhere near the driveway, they won't pick up your bins. Ours too. If the receptacles are not at least 3’ apart they won’t pick up or if you’re out in your yard, they have no issue of getting out and yelling at you about it, lol! And if the receptacles are an inch too close for the mail truck to in the “swoop on in” on berm part of the street by the mailboxes, the mail carrier won’t deliver mail—but the will pull ahead into our driveway apron and get out to leave a note in your mailbox as to why they didn’t deliver the mail. I agree with public street is not owned by the people living on it but considerate behavior goes a long way to getting along with your neighbors. Just wait until the time your neighbors or their guests park legally on the street in front of you during a party/get together and people start urinating behind their cars on your lawn, dump trash out their window, roll up on your lawn and leaving the grass in crappy shape. Where we used to live, it was about 6 blocks from a large high school. They held graduations at the school, I’ve come home and not been able to get into my own driveway, had people pull into my front yard a good 3’-4’ crushing underground downspouts and french drains, not been able to get out of my driveway because people parked directly across from my drive as well as within inches of the apron. I had to go somewhere emergency like one time and the police were out there calling for tow trucks because fire department could not get through the street and I told them I had to get out of my driveway and they wanted me drive over my neighbors side lawn to get out!! Being considerate sure does go a lot farther than “if you don’t like it fuck off” mentality, but given the oyster who feels that way, I’m not surprised, the “me me me entitlement Queen”.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on May 26, 2020 10:49:13 GMT
Having them in sitting there makes the visual more choppy and that irritates me. That is 100% my issue and I get that and ignore it. Having a party? If you mention it I’ll offer to park my cars behind each other so that there is room on my drive way for a couple of your guests to use. If we’re not going out...here, park behind my car. My bigger issue is when our neighbors had one of their children park in the one space I have for guests in front of my house, permanently and for months on end, when they had room in their driveway. The courteous thing to do would have been to at least talk to us about it. You don't "own" the road in front of your house, as it is city property. How can you "reserve" a spot in front of your house for guests? Where I live, the majority of the streets have concrete curbs, so there isn't any parking on the grass area. With the issues with your neighbours, I would have talked to them about the car being parked outside your home for a longer time. Are you scared to talk to them? Simply don't understand. Here, if neighbors complain about a car being parked “too long” in front of a house, the police will mark the tires and check back in a certain time frame. If the car hasn’t moved, I think they are ticketed.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on May 26, 2020 10:51:50 GMT
One of our next-door neighbors had a second family living with them for a few months and there were 6 vehicles between them. Often my step-son would come home from work at midnight and the two spots in front of our house were taken (one by me, one by neighbor) so he would park in front of our other next-door neighbor's house. She did not like that and would passive aggressively park in the very middle of the space so only her truck would fit. She is the only person that lives in the house, has a driveway she could (and does) park on and only has the one vehicle. My issue is the guy that lives further up our cup-de-sac but likes to park directly across the street from us. He will sit in his vehicle for hours at a time, chain smokes cigarettes, drinks beer and then pees on the curb next to his truck. We regularly have to close our windows to avoid this smell/sight. I did ask him not to park there (because of the smoke going straight into our windows), so now he parks at the house diagonal from ours. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/handovereyes.gif) Here, regardless of him being parked, or on his street, he could be arrested for open container and public indecency for all that!!!
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Post by peasapie on May 26, 2020 10:59:41 GMT
No, homeowners don’t own the street but I think neighbors should have common courtesy for each other. As a general rule, if you have room in front of your house, do that. If someone is having guests, then sure, it’s ok to park where there is room on the street. Everyone on my block is pretty respectful. One neighbor owns 10 jalopies, and he parks them quite far away. That’s considerate and I do appreciate it. Jalopies
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Post by peachiceteas on May 26, 2020 11:08:53 GMT
I live next to a very popular cycle route. I love it here, as I'm surrounded by fields, but it does mean the road out the front of my house often becomes a car park. It's pretty busy on sunny days.
My neighbour works in construction and he often has multiple vans parked outside, too.
It doesn't annoy me because anyone is entitled to park there. We use residential streets to park on when we go out for walks, and these people are just doing the same. My neighbour is entitled to use the street to park on, too, just as I am. It's a shame he has so many vans but it's free and legal for him to park there.
I do find it frustrating when someone comes to visit and they can't park directly outside of our house but they just park further down the street - no big deal.
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Post by Country Ham on May 26, 2020 11:39:56 GMT
As soon as the new neighbor's moved in I told them when they are having events at their house feel free to park in our back yard driveway. I have room for about 10 cars when the kids aren't playing basketball. I even make a point to move my van to the front driveway to accommodate them when I see they are gathering vehicles. and yes they do sometimes park pulled off the road onto my lawn. My grass isn't that sensitive for those 2 tires. There is no where to park in the front do to our landscaping though. It's all on the side or back.
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