[Misc] How many f*****g cars do your next door neighbours have between them?

[marlowe]

On one side we have a couple who have a total of 4 cars. I've no idea why as they could quite easily cope with just two and one of them the man barely uses and appears to have just for show. Without any apparent sense of self awareness he often comments how parking has become a problem in our road. He has a drive which accommodates two of the vehicles.

On the other side we have a family comprising of two parents and two daughters, all of whom drive. They have a total of 6 vehicles between them, two of which also appear to be superfluous Their drive also accommodates just two of their vehicles.

So between our two sets of neighbours they have a total of TEN f*****g cars between them, four of which appear to be totally unnecessary.

Do your neighbours' car ownership practices piss you off?....

 

[East Staffs Gull]

Have you offered to let them park on your empty drive?

 

[maltaseagull]

On one side we have a couple who have a total of 4 cars. I've no idea why as they could quite easily cope with just two and one of them the man barely uses and appears to have just for show. Without any apparent sense of self awareness he often comments how parking has become a problem in our road. He has a drive which accommodates two of the vehicles.

On the other side we have a family comprising of two parents and two daughters, all of whom drive. They have a total of 6 vehicles between them, two of which also appear to be superfluous Their drive also accommodates just two of their vehicles.

So between our two sets of neighbours they have a total of TEN f*****g cars between them, four of which appear to be totally unnecessary.

Do your neighbours' car ownership practices piss you off?....

Have you tried venting to them rather than NSC?

But in answer to your question .... No.

 

[mile oak]

I had a past neighbour never parked his car in his drive but on the road outside he said it was easier to get away. Seriously its hard to not laugh at things like this oh and it wasnt a shared driveway or anything just mad logic. On a shared drive a mate used to get his car blocked in when neighbour assumed he was in for the night, so he got up rattled the neighbours door at 3am to move his car then drive back half hour later to repeat the process, said neighbour never parked blocking him in again.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Over the road there is a 4 car house and there was one with van + car x5 and thankfully they paved over their front garden . In a small close it used to cause a problem

 

[portlock seagull]

Up and down the land…

Yep, huge problem. Especially ‘the trades’ who have 2-3 vans each seemingly! Add grown up children who can’t afford to leave home and you’ve 4-5 cars per household these days I’d say, conservatively. Planners and house builders should be forced to accommodate this number per new build. 1 or 2 is laughable, the rest just block the road permanently regardless of yellow lines. Don’t get me started on those that park on grass and footpaths because of sheer laziness.

 

[portlock seagull]

Have you tried venting to them rather than NSC?

But in answer to your question .... No.

Pointless. People get very aggressive usually and rather than correctly say sorry, more likely get a mouthful!

 

[mile oak]

Agreed planners need to provide minimum of 2 spaces per new dwelling and with so many SUV these days the driveways need to be bigger too. Does anyone know ANYONE that actually uses a garage to park a vehicle inside? Scrap these in new build just have a quarter garage for a couple of bikes and more land for a driveway.

 

[mile oak]

Trade vans are a real issue on new build you get local laws sometimes preventing this and caravans but these last only a few years and usually end once the development has finished creating a false impression for the purchaser!

 

[stewart12]

We're on the end of a row of 4 houses. The couple next door are quite elderly and don't have a car, next door to them have two (I think one is owned by an older child) then the house next to them have one. Sometimes the houses behind us park near ours but the biggest problem is that Angmering station is at the end of our road so a lot of people park by ours for their daily commute

Otherwise we're quite lucky really

 

[Guinness Boy]

Next door neighbour has car plus van for work which is perfectly reasonable.

What is not reasonable is that he wants them parked in “his spaces” (road is free to park in except for one hour residential permit per day). Obviously his second space is outside our house. I’ve seen the enormous bellend move the van to outside ours from exactly opposite, move his van forward two spaces and organise a swap space between his car and van with his wife.

Dickhead.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Agreed planners need to provide minimum of 2 spaces per new dwelling and with so many SUV these days the driveways need to be bigger too.

Or maybe go less and try to make people think about making do with fewer smaller cars

 

[lawros left foot]

Where my son used to live, the house opposite had 2 large SUVs, and a plumbers transit van, all of which he used to park on his extended driveway/ front garden.
Not a problem, you’d think, however he would get really irate if you parked in front of his house, even a couple of feet.
So, I made it my mission in life to park over his extended frontage, as often as possible, if there was no other parking place available, but, I always left enough room to get vehicles in and out of his driveway. There was only a dropped kerb for about a third of his driveway, so, legally I could park in the rest .

He put a sign up demanding that no one parked in front of his house, so, when I parked there, he left a note on my windscreen saying “Can’t you read”
I wrote “No, sorry” on the bottom and posted though his letterbox.

Someone complained to the Council about him( not me, I found it quite amusing) as he was getting verbally abusive to other drivers and he was made to remove his sign. They also went after him for paving over his garden.

My son moved shortly afterwards, so I never found out if he went any further.

 

[AmexRuislip]

On one side we have a couple who have a total of 4 cars. I've no idea why as they could quite easily cope with just two and one of them the man barely uses and appears to have just for show. Without any apparent sense of self awareness he often comments how parking has become a problem in our road. He has a drive which accommodates two of the vehicles.

On the other side we have a family comprising of two parents and two daughters, all of whom drive. They have a total of 6 vehicles between them, two of which also appear to be superfluous Their drive also accommodates just two of their vehicles.

So between our two sets of neighbours they have a total of TEN f*****g cars between them, four of which appear to be totally unnecessary.

Do your neighbours' car ownership practices piss you off?....

Have you tried hot wiring them, moving them and then turning off again

 

[Iggle Piggle]

My neighbour has just bought his daughter a 2 year old BMW 3 series to have as a runaround because it was too expensive to insure her on his Range Rover. Some people have too much cash.

Bit different to squeezing the Mrs into the back of my Dad's 2 door Corsa in the car park near Hollingbury golf course for a cheeky hand job back in the day.

 

[BNthree]

The whole of my street is terraced houses but thankfully most households seem to have 1 car. Couple of 2 car households. Worst gripe is no one has a clue about parking and it's not at all uncommon to see 1 car taking up 1.5 or 2 spaces. Someone will park near the end of a bay but leave 2/3 of a car space between them and the end of the bay. Then the next car will be 2/3 of a car away from them and so on. If everyone just budged up a bit we'd all be able to park quite easily.

 

[timbha]

I love these threads. Just as well us NSC’ers are the perfect neighbours with time on our hands.

What about when there’s building work going on next door or over the road? Tradesmen are either mega polite or inconsiderate dickheads.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Ah, see where I am we have the opposite problem, my nearest neighbours all own the “permitted by NSC” number of cars and with plenty of off street parking the road becomes a rat run by day and a race track at night, a few parked cars would clip their wings so to speak.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

My neighbour has just bought his daughter a 2 year old BMW 3 series to have as a runaround because it was too expensive to insure her on his Range Rover. Some people have too much cash.

Bit different to squeezing the Mrs into the back of my Dad's 2 door Corsa in the car park near Hollingbury golf course for a cheeky hand job back in the day.

If you ever start a thread here trying to sell a second hand Corsa, I suspect you might not get too many takers

 

[Madafwo]

I'm quite lucky, my next door neighbour works with cars for a living so it's an ever changing cycles of at least 4 vehicles. If you park in a considerate manner you can get 1 car each on the road outside of our respective houses, if you're a twunt and park in the middle of that space you can only get 1 car there.

From day one he got it and we've never had a problem with it, just a shame no one else on the street gets it and everyone else parks slap bang in the middle meaning you can't get 2 cars there.