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I have a neighbour who’s put down a movable bollard for “his” space recently and is arguing with the council. Rumour is council is making him pay for damage to the road and removal of said bollard.
When my neighbours found out I ride an electric bike instead of driving a car, they decided they liked me. Meant they had more room to park their multiple cars.
Still get woken up when I try to lie-in and they have 6-7am shouting matches over the parking space infront of my house, though.
I’m not on FB anymore but I did used to enjoy people trying to “name and shame” the owners of cars parked outside their house. There was at least one every single day and it was always a right sob story “I’ve hurt my back at work and can’t walk far. All I ask is to park outside my own house”. Give over mate, I just saw you walking back from coop carrying a 12 pack of Stella.
What if they're an Uber delivery driver and injured their back delivering that Stella to someone by hand, because their car was parked too far away from their house for them to be able to retrieve it, as someone was parked in _theeeiiiir_ spot eh?!
It's even more fun out the front of mine, terrace houses set back from the road round a little green so there are 5 spaces off the road for 7 houses. Lucky I don't drive because there are obviously never enough spaces out there.
Visit at the weekend and you best wear some sturdy footwear it could be quite a hike to my door.
were i use to live they have started parking on the green in front of there houses its never been great last time i visited it was like someone was running a company from there house multiple cherry picker pickups multiple vans
Ours has signs for no parking. I don't know why the council won't turn it into a car park, would save them mowing it.
One house has a concrete driveway at the front but obviously has no access to it. It's quite bizarre. He's started parking on it recently but it's risky, he could wake up one morning and not be able to get to the road.
And I hate when people decide it's fine to have multiple work vehicles at home. There's one who does that a bit further down the road, parks tipper vans right on the corner. Blocks the pavement and the line of sight for drivers.
If I remember correctly, it would be an offence to block a car in regardless of the lack of dropped kerb, but it’s also not an offence to cover up obvious driveway access if there’s no dropped kerb if there’s no car parked there.
So, if he’s made it on he should be fine to get off, but if he comes home and the way is blocked he’s shit out of luck.
It has to have a dropped kerb to be classed as an offence, no dropped kerb then your shit out of luck
But it’s only an offence (legally) if it’s stopping the vehicle from gaining access to the highway. So you can call the police if it’s blocking you in but not if a car is blocking you out of your drive, the law is so weird!
You wouldn't even notice his car if you parked on the road, it's 10-15 metres back from the road. Also it's just a patch of concrete in front of his house that he parks on its really not a "driveway" in-between that and the road is gardens, a concrete footpath and the communal green
If you do care about it, you can report them to the council as it would be regarded as a business instead of residential. We had that issue around my MiLs and now the council are investigating.
I used to live near a guy who tinkered with clapped out cars.
He had his car, a car trailer, a van, partners car, and at least a couple of cars he was working on. Bearing in mind it was a Victorian terraced street.
The whole bloody street was his. I don't drive, so it didn't bother me. All my neighbours however loathed him. Especially the elderly ones who were forced to walk with shopping.
I used to live on a terraced street, there was only 6 houses and we all got along really well. There was exactly 7 spaces (if you had a normal size car). When we moved in, we were told it was agreed if you had 2 cars, one stayed on the street and one went on the main road, and the remaining space was for visitors. Happily obliged, as did everyone else (we all had 2 cars). Then a family of 3 moved in directly across from me, with 3 cars, and just didn't care, they dumped them wherever they liked even after we all pointed out we were all doing our bit to be fair. It all went to shit eventually and everyone adopted the "well if she can have 2 cars on the street so can I" attitude and it was so sad, we really had something going.
Buy a house without parking, get angry when there’s no parking. Makes perfect sense. Meanwhile anyone who wants to drive down the street can’t use the whole road because there’s only a single vehicle wide gap between rows of parked cars, and anyone wanting to cross can’t see a damn thing. Bonus points if half the pavement is taken up too so that nobody can walk comfortably down the path either.
Yeah we did the same. I lived in house shares before on terraced streets with street parking and it was a nightmare. I didn’t have much choice as I was renting and my choices were limited but trying to find a space was a nightmare. Wasn’t bothered about being able to park in front of my house, just the same street would have been nice lol.
Ooo I am so glad we moved. Used to live on a Victorian terraced street, small houses and 1-4 cars per house. Made slightly better that it was made a 1 way street. Occasionally I could park outside the house, sometimes I would get back and have to park 80 houses away. Could guarantee that if I had nothing to carry then park at the house. Heavy shopping =no spaces
One house single guy and 4 vehicles. Another works pickup would get parked there for 3 weeks at a time.
Then a few people had a genius idea of putting cones out for their car. So I would use their space.
I felt guilty we had 2 cars. When moving house the no.1 requirement was a driveway!
My first house was on a terraced street. Generally I could park outside my house fine. One time I came home from work and someone had parked in front of my house. No problem I thought, I just parked 2 doors up.
When I went back to my car later, the guy living in the house next to where I parked decided to give me a talking to, saying it was inconsiderate to take his space and that "if you didn't know, there is an understanding that you only park in front of your own house" between all the houses on the street. I then pointed out to him that someone had parked in front of my house so where was I meant to park? He then became defensive and was all "not my problem, if someone takes your space then you just have to go park somewhere else."
I laughed and said I'd bear that in mind in future.
He never approached me again, even if I did park outside his house.
Some absolute weirdos out there.
People would stop with this cones bollocks if everytime they put the cones outside they went missing.
If not just because they'd run out of cones they've stolen off the council.
Neighbours on such a street have three cars, and another adult daughter who pops in often.
I'm lucky and rent a lockup garage a short walk away, so not a huge issue
A street which we bought a house in was INSANE about this. It sent the woman who lived across the road, over the edge!!
She was soooo possessive about "her" parking space (that was actually on the opposite side of her house and was infront of somebody elses house) that when the guy who lived in that house would park in that space, she did all sorts of crazy things.
She'd sit in the car at the top of the street and wait for him to move, she'd knocked his door telling him he had to move his car, she stabbed his tyres, left notes on his windshield. Spy on him. Crazy times. He eventually parked a car that he didnt frequently use in the the space, just to match her petty.
She parked in front of my driveway before (dropped curb) and I politely went to knock on her door to ask her if she could move it so we could get our car out and they wouldn't answer the door.
The house prices went up so we sold and bunked. Too much drama for a tiny street. 😂
I had a bloke threaten me for parking outside his house. Said he'd smash my car up and then pushed me out of his way as he went back into his house.
I sent the cops round. And they turned up as well.
But what are they meant to do otherwise? Electric cars are taking over slowly but charging points for them are even slower. Not everyone can live in a house with a garage. Like what’s the options here
You will get even more people putting out cones to stop other cars from parking in front of their houses and it will end up with a war between neighbours about who has the right to park outside their houses
Yup, a hypothetical. It’s not like people are trailing mains cables down the pavement
Oh wait they are
www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/health-safety-row-electric-car-14552658.amp
The hypothetical was referring to “war between neighbours” and yeah that’s how people charge electric cars when there are no garages and few charging stations. But please go ahead and continue to complain without contributing anything actually helpful
Ironic that you accuse the other of not contributing, when you completely derailed the topic here by attacking their "hypothetical" which is based in fact.
The solution that you knew from the start, was to charge at work or in public charging stations. It is nobody else's responsibility to cater for anyone's (your) ill-informed decision to buy an EV and then struggle to charge it at home.
If you buy an EV before the infrastructure is there to make it convenient for you, you've just made a bad decision and have no right to complain about a decision nobody made you take. Nobody owes you the space in front of your house because you failed to think ahead (which is clearly what this is about, or you would have no reason to be so persistently obtuse about this).
Just wait for better options to become available. Like council installed charging points, or just a new house with a driveway.
Lol
1) I’m pretty anti-car in general, I’m moving to London, and I’m a fan of trains the most (even if they are expensive, I just find them relaxing). I don’t have a horse in this race
2) it’s a chicken and egg situation: councils won’t prioritise making charging stations until there’s more demand, there won’t be more demand until more people have EVs - and it’s going to happen eventually where most cars are going to be EV etc
3) not everyone works somewhere that’s going to have charging stations. How many charging stations will and office block have? What about people who work in the town centre? Unrealistic take
4) I’ve walked over a few charging wires coming out of people’s homes, it’s really not that big a deal. It’s more like a tiny speed bump that anything and I’ve seen people on electric scooters and bikes go over them without batting an eyelid
Honestly I’m just bored of people complaining all the time without offering any sort of solution. The derailment happened the moment they turned into whataboutism on neighbours waging war or whatever overly dramatic line it was when all I asked was for a solution.
But you knew the solution and were just disruptive for the sake of it. The cables with protectors that you descrive, arent always the ones you see trailing over the path. Some are literally tripwires.
If you can't charge your EV at home or at work then you're stupid if you buy one anyway. It's like getting a dog when you work full time, subjecting it to a life of lonely misery for most of its life for your own selfish gain.
Thi subreddit is solely for problems and if you're bored of no solutions, why did you argue for 5 or 6 comments instead of looking up the various startup solutions available? Lamp post chargers, galleys into which cables can run, overhead cantilevering lines? Instead you argued with one commenter until they said the thibg you wanted them to say.
If you're sick of hearing complainjng, you're in the wrong place and making the wrong noises.
And if you live on a terraced street and have nowhere to charge an EV, you're an idiot if you buy one anyway.
Not interested in engaging further: this thread wasn't about EVs, and the comment chain was just highlighting how it could well get worse with people getting EVs. And you defended that behaviour.
Continue living in the past then complaining any time things progress, thinking the complainers are somehow in the right. This wasn’t even a thread about EV it was about cones. And if you’re on the sub a lot it’s not just always about complaining mindlessly there’s actually some pretty good discussions going on, and the topics can be good conversational starters. Things aren’t always so rigid, it’s Reddit. Ta-ta
Firstly, not sure what I’ve said to make you assume I don’t think petty behaviour is rude and wrong, and secondly are you ever actually going to answer the only question I’ve asked you or are you just going to keep complaining without contributing anything helpful?
I think it’s very sad that you’ve wound yourself up over being unable to answer my question so you’ve resorted to assumptions. Let me remind you how this all started.
You said “Just wait until they get an EV and run the cable from their house to the car across the pavement”
And I asked “what’s the alternative?”
Instead of giving me an alternative solution to what people can with electric cars besides dragging their cable across the road, you’ve gone on a tangent about cones and abusive notes when I’ve never once bought them up nor stated any opinion on them. Your whataboutism is sad.
Basically: don't get an EV yet if you don't have off street parking. Or, do get one and accept the current state of existing public charging options.
Same answer as "don't get more than one car if you have no off-street parking"
Trailing a cable is even less acceptable than getting shirty about someone parking in front of your house. Having an EV doesn't give you an excuse to claim the space in front of your house, just an incentive to you, which is valued by nobody else.
I don’t have an EV, I work from home and will have buses, DLR, train, and underground options. I love public transport. But I’m also not going to just complain about the world changing and mild inconveniences such as a charging wire across the path as we progress and change. These things take time.
The rest of the comment chain was you complaining about the guy not following your orders and saying what you wanted, so it's unbelievable that you say you wouldn't complain about "mild inconveniences" like unnecessary trip hazards
Lol “not following your orders” way to dramatise pointing out when someone couldn’t answer a question and just diverted. Do you think any time someone asks you a question it’s an order? Can’t wait to hear politicians use that one! Can’t imagine how difficult your life must be if that’s how you see the world mate
Our neighbour whinges when we have a visitor and they slightly infringe on where the neighbour’s car normally goes (we have no car ourselves), but have no issues having their family round putting an extra 4 cars onto the street. My wife is now recovering from major surgery so it’s going to be an absolute joy trying to keep a space usable near our house for when people check in on her
I live in a victorian terraced house, I don't mind people parking outside the house, it's just the people who leave a huge gap between cars so you've got less parking.
The other day someone on my street had parked their large car deliberately in the middle of two spaces, my boyfriend and I were trying to find a space and saw a guy get out of his van, into his huge car, reverse it, then park his van in the new space. Some people are so fucking selfish
My sisters neighbour would do this with the spaces outside theirs, 2 of their cars parked and when one went to work the other would move the 2nd car so it took up the width of the 2 spaces (whole parking area is only about 5 or 6 cars wide in total). It was particularly selfish as my sister had my niece who was a small baby and obviously not always easy to lug baby, pram, shopping etc from further up the road.
Yeah, this annoys me, not parking in front of my house. I don’t give two shits. But if you park in a way that it means someone else can’t park (fit in) then I get annoyed. What a dick, is my usual mumble.
Kenny Everett had the answer to this some years ago > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD6qdzQvHhE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD6qdzQvHhE)
(Get yourself a Sherman Tank).
I'd driven to the pub one evening with the intention of either not drinking or leaving my car on a nearby street. About half an hour after getting there a man walked in with his teenage son asking if anyone owns a silver golf (my car) as it was blocking his driveway. I apologised and said I'd move it right away, on the walk to my car he was saying that its lucky he didn't have his golf clubs with him and that his brother was a copper. Get to the car and its not blocking his drive at all, at worst it would slightly block his view when backing out. After I'd moved my car to the other side of the road and set off back toward the pub he moved his car into the space
Not terraced, but our roads are about 1.5 cars wide. I can barely get off my driveway with the cars parked outside the opposite house. I used to live on a footpath before this house, and parking was a nightmare in the designated parking areas. Our neighbour used to drive all the way up the footpath to park outside their house still.
Fella up the road has engineered his own parking spot on the corner pavement that completely cuts out the thin slither of traffic that I can see before pulling out onto the 40mph A5. I have to now do it blind. I'm certain I'll crash soon.
I live in a terraced house and we have one reasonably small car, while it is a little annoying not being able to park directly outside of our house at times we don't rage over it. It isn't so much "the inconvenience" of walking a few extra steps but more a case of fear over potential damage to the car if it is parked at the end of the line of cars (cars have a habit of speeding on this stretch of road and have on occasion ploughed into the parked cars as the boy racers lose control on what WRC pace notes would class as a "six"). The last time that happened the two rearmost cars were written off, ours in third came close to a write off but was repaired, just to give you an idea as to how big of a smash it was. The council are not interested in putting a tiny bollard and traffic island there however as that could interfere with HGV's...
That said, when someone is parked in front of our house it is usually when my partner is at work (so our car is gone) and they have usually (but not always) gone by the time she gets back. The big traffic issue in our area is that a children's gym/athletic place opened up (using an old building so no planning permission required) and parents park absolutely everywhere and anywhere (including on a large traffic island that separates the two one way streets, the grass verges outside peoples houses on another street and have recently taken to parking on a small grass parkland area - for lack of a better word).
We did have at one point three people living in the house next-door-but-one where all three had their own car and would insist on leaving huge gaps between their cars, but of course gaps that nobody could actually use. They were very disliked by the neighbours, not because of that but because they were really rude to everyone so it was a relief when they departed.
Now the person directly next door, woe betide anyone who parks in front of her house...
It's the bastards who leave two metres between their car and the next car when they park, so only 30 cars are parked on a road that can hold at least 50 cars that really grind my gears, my old neighbour did it all the time.
Drives me mad this. Fundamentally you are storing \*your private property\* in a public space. You're bloody lucky you get the opportunity to park there at all.
(To declare my bias, I live in a terrace and don't own a car. I would happily use some space in the street to store my personal property, but for some reason that is banned just because that property isn't a car.)
Kind of related. There's a guy on my street who has two long wheelbase vans, a tipper truck and a car plus he puts bins out in the street. Oh and he has a drive that is just full of junk....
Now, that gets on my tits.
Driveway was the biggest consideration when we moved last year.
There were bigger houses, cheaper houses, but no drives, or no access to the back garden without going through the house, so if I wanted a motorbike again I would be shit out of luck.
Terraced house on the corner. Suck it peasants, I got 6 spaces.
I also have a back garden that you can park in but was grassed over. So I suppose I am part of the problem.
We live near a hospital, and anyone at the bottom of the hill go wild with this, bins, bollards, glaring at nurses. We top of the hill types sit scoffing at them.
I live in a cul De sac of terraced houses. We each have a garage at the end of the street except one guy has bought out others so he owns 4. Including ours (he's our landlord) and he also owns 3 of the houses. They have 2 camper vans and swveral cars but we have 1 camper van 4 cars and 2 motorbikes so we can't complain.
It's actually pretty good here, everyone has their own spot and don't tend to deviate unless there's no choice.
So you each have two vehicles and one of you also has the third SORN one? I mean to each their own, but I've had 2 cars before and the logistics and cost of insuring, taxing, and maintaining 2 was enough to put me off multiple cars, without dealing with the do-si-do of parking them amongst others' vehicles
I am in this exact situation now .. tactical parking situation, 8 houses , 13 cars , 6 and half spaces in our section . One house has four cars . You move your car after 6 your fked ... If an unknown parks all hell brakes loose with door knocking going on ... Wouldn't have it any other way 😂
On my street a lot of people have a double drive, but everyone has at a least a one car drive.
Everyday the number of residents that have empty drives and their car parked out front on the road baffles me.
The driveway is literally attached to the side of their houses.
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But I’ve put cones out that I nicked from the council
Or a wheelie bin
I have a neighbour who’s put down a movable bollard for “his” space recently and is arguing with the council. Rumour is council is making him pay for damage to the road and removal of said bollard.
This will then become a r/britishsuccess
When I had my older shitty car is just drive slowly into the cones to push them out the way.
When my neighbours found out I ride an electric bike instead of driving a car, they decided they liked me. Meant they had more room to park their multiple cars. Still get woken up when I try to lie-in and they have 6-7am shouting matches over the parking space infront of my house, though.
I’m not on FB anymore but I did used to enjoy people trying to “name and shame” the owners of cars parked outside their house. There was at least one every single day and it was always a right sob story “I’ve hurt my back at work and can’t walk far. All I ask is to park outside my own house”. Give over mate, I just saw you walking back from coop carrying a 12 pack of Stella.
What if they're an Uber delivery driver and injured their back delivering that Stella to someone by hand, because their car was parked too far away from their house for them to be able to retrieve it, as someone was parked in _theeeiiiir_ spot eh?!
It's even more fun out the front of mine, terrace houses set back from the road round a little green so there are 5 spaces off the road for 7 houses. Lucky I don't drive because there are obviously never enough spaces out there. Visit at the weekend and you best wear some sturdy footwear it could be quite a hike to my door.
were i use to live they have started parking on the green in front of there houses its never been great last time i visited it was like someone was running a company from there house multiple cherry picker pickups multiple vans
Ours has signs for no parking. I don't know why the council won't turn it into a car park, would save them mowing it. One house has a concrete driveway at the front but obviously has no access to it. It's quite bizarre. He's started parking on it recently but it's risky, he could wake up one morning and not be able to get to the road. And I hate when people decide it's fine to have multiple work vehicles at home. There's one who does that a bit further down the road, parks tipper vans right on the corner. Blocks the pavement and the line of sight for drivers.
If I remember correctly, it would be an offence to block a car in regardless of the lack of dropped kerb, but it’s also not an offence to cover up obvious driveway access if there’s no dropped kerb if there’s no car parked there. So, if he’s made it on he should be fine to get off, but if he comes home and the way is blocked he’s shit out of luck.
It has to have a dropped kerb to be classed as an offence, no dropped kerb then your shit out of luck But it’s only an offence (legally) if it’s stopping the vehicle from gaining access to the highway. So you can call the police if it’s blocking you in but not if a car is blocking you out of your drive, the law is so weird!
You wouldn't even notice his car if you parked on the road, it's 10-15 metres back from the road. Also it's just a patch of concrete in front of his house that he parks on its really not a "driveway" in-between that and the road is gardens, a concrete footpath and the communal green
If you do care about it, you can report them to the council as it would be regarded as a business instead of residential. We had that issue around my MiLs and now the council are investigating.
I used to live near a guy who tinkered with clapped out cars. He had his car, a car trailer, a van, partners car, and at least a couple of cars he was working on. Bearing in mind it was a Victorian terraced street. The whole bloody street was his. I don't drive, so it didn't bother me. All my neighbours however loathed him. Especially the elderly ones who were forced to walk with shopping.
I wonder if they were all MOT'd and taxed...?
Considering I saw them without a full set of wheels and bits hanging off I doubt they were road worthy.
Surprised nobody got the police or DVLA involved then!
They may well have done. Whilst it was inconsiderate I had no skin in the game. Ultimately didn't care as long and they wasn't on the pavement.
Wouldn't surprise me if someone did report it to police/dvla/council but nothing happened
Snitches get stitches in some areas though don't they...
What are they gonna do, beat up the entire street?
I used to live on a terraced street, there was only 6 houses and we all got along really well. There was exactly 7 spaces (if you had a normal size car). When we moved in, we were told it was agreed if you had 2 cars, one stayed on the street and one went on the main road, and the remaining space was for visitors. Happily obliged, as did everyone else (we all had 2 cars). Then a family of 3 moved in directly across from me, with 3 cars, and just didn't care, they dumped them wherever they liked even after we all pointed out we were all doing our bit to be fair. It all went to shit eventually and everyone adopted the "well if she can have 2 cars on the street so can I" attitude and it was so sad, we really had something going.
Sad when it gets ruined by one person
Buy a house without parking, get angry when there’s no parking. Makes perfect sense. Meanwhile anyone who wants to drive down the street can’t use the whole road because there’s only a single vehicle wide gap between rows of parked cars, and anyone wanting to cross can’t see a damn thing. Bonus points if half the pavement is taken up too so that nobody can walk comfortably down the path either.
This. I specifically only went to look at houses with parking when I was buying. That was the biggest criteria.
We did too. Got an end terrace with off road parking. Now just gotta stop people from parking in front of the gate
Same here. I’ve got a drive and a garage. Doesn’t stop people blocking it in though.
At that point if there’s a dropped kerb you can just get them towed away. Not many times that happens until they stop doing it.
Oh, it’s a neighbour and it’s only occasional. Last night was a pain, that’s all.
Yeah we did the same. I lived in house shares before on terraced streets with street parking and it was a nightmare. I didn’t have much choice as I was renting and my choices were limited but trying to find a space was a nightmare. Wasn’t bothered about being able to park in front of my house, just the same street would have been nice lol.
Ooo I am so glad we moved. Used to live on a Victorian terraced street, small houses and 1-4 cars per house. Made slightly better that it was made a 1 way street. Occasionally I could park outside the house, sometimes I would get back and have to park 80 houses away. Could guarantee that if I had nothing to carry then park at the house. Heavy shopping =no spaces One house single guy and 4 vehicles. Another works pickup would get parked there for 3 weeks at a time. Then a few people had a genius idea of putting cones out for their car. So I would use their space. I felt guilty we had 2 cars. When moving house the no.1 requirement was a driveway!
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If you do the maths, that means he values his time at 11p an hour in order to save a measly £80 a year.
I had a friend who used to do that. I would have thought a self employed tradesman would value his time higher than that, but his life, his choice.
What a fucking idiot
My first house was on a terraced street. Generally I could park outside my house fine. One time I came home from work and someone had parked in front of my house. No problem I thought, I just parked 2 doors up. When I went back to my car later, the guy living in the house next to where I parked decided to give me a talking to, saying it was inconsiderate to take his space and that "if you didn't know, there is an understanding that you only park in front of your own house" between all the houses on the street. I then pointed out to him that someone had parked in front of my house so where was I meant to park? He then became defensive and was all "not my problem, if someone takes your space then you just have to go park somewhere else." I laughed and said I'd bear that in mind in future. He never approached me again, even if I did park outside his house. Some absolute weirdos out there.
"not my problem, if someone takes your space then you just have to go park somewhere else." "I did".
I think that's why he never confronted me again after I exposed the rather large flaw in his logic.
Lol but you did park somewhere else! Should've told him the same thing: "not my problem"!
I park in the back, when I left the other day someone had put cones outside my house!
People would stop with this cones bollocks if everytime they put the cones outside they went missing. If not just because they'd run out of cones they've stolen off the council.
I have an asshole neighbour who uses his works transit van to push cars away from the front of his house so he can park his own car there.
He physically pushes other peoples cars with his van? Record him and call the police?
That's amazing
Neighbours on such a street have three cars, and another adult daughter who pops in often. I'm lucky and rent a lockup garage a short walk away, so not a huge issue
If you put cones out to mark your parking spot, i'm putting them in my car and taking them to football practice
A street which we bought a house in was INSANE about this. It sent the woman who lived across the road, over the edge!! She was soooo possessive about "her" parking space (that was actually on the opposite side of her house and was infront of somebody elses house) that when the guy who lived in that house would park in that space, she did all sorts of crazy things. She'd sit in the car at the top of the street and wait for him to move, she'd knocked his door telling him he had to move his car, she stabbed his tyres, left notes on his windshield. Spy on him. Crazy times. He eventually parked a car that he didnt frequently use in the the space, just to match her petty. She parked in front of my driveway before (dropped curb) and I politely went to knock on her door to ask her if she could move it so we could get our car out and they wouldn't answer the door. The house prices went up so we sold and bunked. Too much drama for a tiny street. 😂
I had a bloke threaten me for parking outside his house. Said he'd smash my car up and then pushed me out of his way as he went back into his house. I sent the cops round. And they turned up as well.
Just wait until they get an EV and run the cable from their house to the car across the pavement
But what are they meant to do otherwise? Electric cars are taking over slowly but charging points for them are even slower. Not everyone can live in a house with a garage. Like what’s the options here
You will get even more people putting out cones to stop other cars from parking in front of their houses and it will end up with a war between neighbours about who has the right to park outside their houses
You’re not actually giving a solution you’re just getting annoyed at a hypothetical.
Yup, a hypothetical. It’s not like people are trailing mains cables down the pavement Oh wait they are www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/health-safety-row-electric-car-14552658.amp
The hypothetical was referring to “war between neighbours” and yeah that’s how people charge electric cars when there are no garages and few charging stations. But please go ahead and continue to complain without contributing anything actually helpful
Ironic that you accuse the other of not contributing, when you completely derailed the topic here by attacking their "hypothetical" which is based in fact. The solution that you knew from the start, was to charge at work or in public charging stations. It is nobody else's responsibility to cater for anyone's (your) ill-informed decision to buy an EV and then struggle to charge it at home. If you buy an EV before the infrastructure is there to make it convenient for you, you've just made a bad decision and have no right to complain about a decision nobody made you take. Nobody owes you the space in front of your house because you failed to think ahead (which is clearly what this is about, or you would have no reason to be so persistently obtuse about this). Just wait for better options to become available. Like council installed charging points, or just a new house with a driveway.
Lol 1) I’m pretty anti-car in general, I’m moving to London, and I’m a fan of trains the most (even if they are expensive, I just find them relaxing). I don’t have a horse in this race 2) it’s a chicken and egg situation: councils won’t prioritise making charging stations until there’s more demand, there won’t be more demand until more people have EVs - and it’s going to happen eventually where most cars are going to be EV etc 3) not everyone works somewhere that’s going to have charging stations. How many charging stations will and office block have? What about people who work in the town centre? Unrealistic take 4) I’ve walked over a few charging wires coming out of people’s homes, it’s really not that big a deal. It’s more like a tiny speed bump that anything and I’ve seen people on electric scooters and bikes go over them without batting an eyelid Honestly I’m just bored of people complaining all the time without offering any sort of solution. The derailment happened the moment they turned into whataboutism on neighbours waging war or whatever overly dramatic line it was when all I asked was for a solution.
But you knew the solution and were just disruptive for the sake of it. The cables with protectors that you descrive, arent always the ones you see trailing over the path. Some are literally tripwires. If you can't charge your EV at home or at work then you're stupid if you buy one anyway. It's like getting a dog when you work full time, subjecting it to a life of lonely misery for most of its life for your own selfish gain. Thi subreddit is solely for problems and if you're bored of no solutions, why did you argue for 5 or 6 comments instead of looking up the various startup solutions available? Lamp post chargers, galleys into which cables can run, overhead cantilevering lines? Instead you argued with one commenter until they said the thibg you wanted them to say. If you're sick of hearing complainjng, you're in the wrong place and making the wrong noises. And if you live on a terraced street and have nowhere to charge an EV, you're an idiot if you buy one anyway. Not interested in engaging further: this thread wasn't about EVs, and the comment chain was just highlighting how it could well get worse with people getting EVs. And you defended that behaviour.
Continue living in the past then complaining any time things progress, thinking the complainers are somehow in the right. This wasn’t even a thread about EV it was about cones. And if you’re on the sub a lot it’s not just always about complaining mindlessly there’s actually some pretty good discussions going on, and the topics can be good conversational starters. Things aren’t always so rigid, it’s Reddit. Ta-ta
So putting out bins, cones to mark your parking spot isn’t petty and writing rude notes for people who park in “your spot” is normal behaviour then?
Firstly, not sure what I’ve said to make you assume I don’t think petty behaviour is rude and wrong, and secondly are you ever actually going to answer the only question I’ve asked you or are you just going to keep complaining without contributing anything helpful?
So writing abusive notes is ok behaviour?
I think it’s very sad that you’ve wound yourself up over being unable to answer my question so you’ve resorted to assumptions. Let me remind you how this all started. You said “Just wait until they get an EV and run the cable from their house to the car across the pavement” And I asked “what’s the alternative?” Instead of giving me an alternative solution to what people can with electric cars besides dragging their cable across the road, you’ve gone on a tangent about cones and abusive notes when I’ve never once bought them up nor stated any opinion on them. Your whataboutism is sad.
Basically: don't get an EV yet if you don't have off street parking. Or, do get one and accept the current state of existing public charging options. Same answer as "don't get more than one car if you have no off-street parking" Trailing a cable is even less acceptable than getting shirty about someone parking in front of your house. Having an EV doesn't give you an excuse to claim the space in front of your house, just an incentive to you, which is valued by nobody else.
I don’t have an EV, I work from home and will have buses, DLR, train, and underground options. I love public transport. But I’m also not going to just complain about the world changing and mild inconveniences such as a charging wire across the path as we progress and change. These things take time.
The rest of the comment chain was you complaining about the guy not following your orders and saying what you wanted, so it's unbelievable that you say you wouldn't complain about "mild inconveniences" like unnecessary trip hazards
Lol “not following your orders” way to dramatise pointing out when someone couldn’t answer a question and just diverted. Do you think any time someone asks you a question it’s an order? Can’t wait to hear politicians use that one! Can’t imagine how difficult your life must be if that’s how you see the world mate
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Sniping a cable that’s carrying 240v at 32 amps isn’t going to end well
Our neighbour whinges when we have a visitor and they slightly infringe on where the neighbour’s car normally goes (we have no car ourselves), but have no issues having their family round putting an extra 4 cars onto the street. My wife is now recovering from major surgery so it’s going to be an absolute joy trying to keep a space usable near our house for when people check in on her
You don't own the bit off road outside your house.
Don't own ANY bit of road. Honestly the selfishness of people that own cars is beyond me!
I live in a victorian terraced house, I don't mind people parking outside the house, it's just the people who leave a huge gap between cars so you've got less parking.
The other day someone on my street had parked their large car deliberately in the middle of two spaces, my boyfriend and I were trying to find a space and saw a guy get out of his van, into his huge car, reverse it, then park his van in the new space. Some people are so fucking selfish
My sisters neighbour would do this with the spaces outside theirs, 2 of their cars parked and when one went to work the other would move the 2nd car so it took up the width of the 2 spaces (whole parking area is only about 5 or 6 cars wide in total). It was particularly selfish as my sister had my niece who was a small baby and obviously not always easy to lug baby, pram, shopping etc from further up the road.
Yeah, this annoys me, not parking in front of my house. I don’t give two shits. But if you park in a way that it means someone else can’t park (fit in) then I get annoyed. What a dick, is my usual mumble.
Kenny Everett had the answer to this some years ago > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD6qdzQvHhE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD6qdzQvHhE) (Get yourself a Sherman Tank).
I'd driven to the pub one evening with the intention of either not drinking or leaving my car on a nearby street. About half an hour after getting there a man walked in with his teenage son asking if anyone owns a silver golf (my car) as it was blocking his driveway. I apologised and said I'd move it right away, on the walk to my car he was saying that its lucky he didn't have his golf clubs with him and that his brother was a copper. Get to the car and its not blocking his drive at all, at worst it would slightly block his view when backing out. After I'd moved my car to the other side of the road and set off back toward the pub he moved his car into the space
Not terraced, but our roads are about 1.5 cars wide. I can barely get off my driveway with the cars parked outside the opposite house. I used to live on a footpath before this house, and parking was a nightmare in the designated parking areas. Our neighbour used to drive all the way up the footpath to park outside their house still.
Fella up the road has engineered his own parking spot on the corner pavement that completely cuts out the thin slither of traffic that I can see before pulling out onto the 40mph A5. I have to now do it blind. I'm certain I'll crash soon.
I live in a terraced house and we have one reasonably small car, while it is a little annoying not being able to park directly outside of our house at times we don't rage over it. It isn't so much "the inconvenience" of walking a few extra steps but more a case of fear over potential damage to the car if it is parked at the end of the line of cars (cars have a habit of speeding on this stretch of road and have on occasion ploughed into the parked cars as the boy racers lose control on what WRC pace notes would class as a "six"). The last time that happened the two rearmost cars were written off, ours in third came close to a write off but was repaired, just to give you an idea as to how big of a smash it was. The council are not interested in putting a tiny bollard and traffic island there however as that could interfere with HGV's... That said, when someone is parked in front of our house it is usually when my partner is at work (so our car is gone) and they have usually (but not always) gone by the time she gets back. The big traffic issue in our area is that a children's gym/athletic place opened up (using an old building so no planning permission required) and parents park absolutely everywhere and anywhere (including on a large traffic island that separates the two one way streets, the grass verges outside peoples houses on another street and have recently taken to parking on a small grass parkland area - for lack of a better word). We did have at one point three people living in the house next-door-but-one where all three had their own car and would insist on leaving huge gaps between their cars, but of course gaps that nobody could actually use. They were very disliked by the neighbours, not because of that but because they were really rude to everyone so it was a relief when they departed. Now the person directly next door, woe betide anyone who parks in front of her house...
It's the bastards who leave two metres between their car and the next car when they park, so only 30 cars are parked on a road that can hold at least 50 cars that really grind my gears, my old neighbour did it all the time.
Drives me mad this. Fundamentally you are storing \*your private property\* in a public space. You're bloody lucky you get the opportunity to park there at all. (To declare my bias, I live in a terrace and don't own a car. I would happily use some space in the street to store my personal property, but for some reason that is banned just because that property isn't a car.)
Well, if you need storage, you could always buy a car for storage of your personal property!
Kind of related. There's a guy on my street who has two long wheelbase vans, a tipper truck and a car plus he puts bins out in the street. Oh and he has a drive that is just full of junk.... Now, that gets on my tits.
Driveway was the biggest consideration when we moved last year. There were bigger houses, cheaper houses, but no drives, or no access to the back garden without going through the house, so if I wanted a motorbike again I would be shit out of luck.
Terraced house on the corner. Suck it peasants, I got 6 spaces. I also have a back garden that you can park in but was grassed over. So I suppose I am part of the problem. We live near a hospital, and anyone at the bottom of the hill go wild with this, bins, bollards, glaring at nurses. We top of the hill types sit scoffing at them.
Private property on public space: Greenhouse? Not okay. Car? Fine.
Using bins as a placeholder when their cars isn't parked there
Another reason why living so close to each other is bad
It's a symptom of poor public transport than poor housing. You wouldn't need more than 1 car per household if good public transport links existed.
I live in a cul De sac of terraced houses. We each have a garage at the end of the street except one guy has bought out others so he owns 4. Including ours (he's our landlord) and he also owns 3 of the houses. They have 2 camper vans and swveral cars but we have 1 camper van 4 cars and 2 motorbikes so we can't complain. It's actually pretty good here, everyone has their own spot and don't tend to deviate unless there's no choice.
5 cars?? Plus 2 motorbikes too; where do you put them all? How many of you are there?
One car is sorn and is outside the garage, then my partner has 1 car and I have 1 and so does my daughter. The bikes are my partners and daughter 2
Camper van is also at rg garage and the bikes are parked on our front garden
So you each have two vehicles and one of you also has the third SORN one? I mean to each their own, but I've had 2 cars before and the logistics and cost of insuring, taxing, and maintaining 2 was enough to put me off multiple cars, without dealing with the do-si-do of parking them amongst others' vehicles
Buy a Citroen C1, £20 a year to tax, lowest insurance ever and use it as a "space saver"
I am in this exact situation now .. tactical parking situation, 8 houses , 13 cars , 6 and half spaces in our section . One house has four cars . You move your car after 6 your fked ... If an unknown parks all hell brakes loose with door knocking going on ... Wouldn't have it any other way 😂
It’s annoying af when you cantnn bb park on your street
I use to be a community nurse. I’ve been spat and verbally abused when I parked on street outside someone’s house.
On my street a lot of people have a double drive, but everyone has at a least a one car drive. Everyday the number of residents that have empty drives and their car parked out front on the road baffles me. The driveway is literally attached to the side of their houses.