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

[Cotton Socks]

One of the neighbours across the road has 2 cars and a van and used to park his old motorbike so close to my immediate neighbours drive that I thought there would be fisticuffs a few years ago, The other neighbour across the road has 2 cars & a van & put 'things' on the verge to stop people parking there for a few minutes, (they have a driveway that fits 2 cars).
They have now removed the 'things' as their other neighbour was getting really p**sed off that their kids were parking on his verge instead when they came to visit. I don't have a car but I get very annoyed on other peoples behalf!
I get very annoyed with my immediate neighbour who has a drive when he parks over it. I'm constantly telling him to stop doing it as he spoils my drop off point if I have shopping & I have to walk further down the road with it.
FFS Dave, put your car on your drive or carry some of my shopping (just in case he reads NSC)!

 

[clapham_gull]

Come and live in London we rarely speak to our neighbours. It's brilliant. I haven't scooby the names of them either side, but frighteningly they know mine.

Oddballs.

 

[clapham_gull]

Rural carers get free petrol, just tax me.

Please.

 

[Justice]

One neighbor has 5 cars plus a motorcycle.

The neighbor across the street has a 4 cars but since he is a Lake County Deputy Sheriff one of the cars he has is owned by the Lake County Indiana Sheriffs Department.

The other neighbor has 6 cars.

This may reflect on the fact we live in a rural area with no public transportation in our neighborhood.

You lost me on neighbor

 

[Justice]

Come and live in London we rarely speak to our neighbours. It's brilliant. I haven't scooby the names of them either side, but frighteningly they know mine.

Oddballs.

Na they are just going through your mail

 

[clapham_gull]

Na they are just going through your mail

My mail ?

That's next door who liberally order stuff on Amazon knowing damn well I work from home.

I'm basically their f***ing post office collection centre.

Timberland boots today.

I did laugh though. What they don't know is over Christmas some idiot ordered a pizza to their address by mistake.

The person (yes really) put a note on their front door.

"We have ordered a pizza to this address by mistake. They are out, but could you deliver it here instead (address)."

The note was there for over a week.

I wish I had taken a picture.

 

[Cotton Socks]

I agree with you BUT the council have more money from parking charges, permits, fines etc than they can spend. A large chunk goes on bus passes but the rest is spent on useless road schemes ( see the new cycle lane at Preston Circus as a prime example ). They make changes to road layouts for the sake of it - OSR and Sackville being a prime example of just spending the spare money and bringing massive queues. I have as much faith in our council spending the excess wisely ( *** cough *** potholes ) as I do in Putin sticking his hands up and saying he got the Ukraine wrong.

Perhaps they should stop, as that 2 way cycle lane at the bottom of Dyke Road Drive onto Preston Road may as well have a sign saying 'death trap for cyclists' on it. That's without the fact that emergency vehicles can't get by as they've put it into one lane. Then there's the moving of the crossing so no one can see the pedestrians until they've nearly run them over at the turn off to Stanford Ave. A bin lorry collecting at the flats at the bottom of Springfield Road the other day meant an ambulance couldn't get through, traffic was back to Preston Circus just because of it & no one could move anywhere for the ambulance. I had no idea there was such a need for 2 pelican crossings within 100 metres of each other in the same area either. It's not going to stop people wanting to drive out of Brighton, it's not making anything safer that's for sure.. Would it be too radical to suggest that they use the money to subsidise bus fares for those on low income or under 25's? It wouldn't actually have been so bad if they'd put a bus lane in, they've made it single lane for no reason!
Rant over!

 

[mile oak]

In the same way 2nd homes are seen as an additional tax income, I can see 2nd, 3rd and so on vechies registered to the same person becoming an additional tax revenue stream.

 

[B-right-on]

We've got 2 cars and a van plus my motorbike but that's got it's own cosy shed. Next door have 2 cars, next to that bloke has 3 vans and his Mrs doesn't drive. One work, one camper and one feck knows. Luckily they have a decent drive so they don't block the road

Next to that is a family of 4 with 2 early 20 kids. Each has a car so that's 4. The dad is a mate and told his kids not to park outside our house so they park up the road which is really nice of them. I've told them a few times how I appreciate it. I like my van outside my house because of the tools and the Mrs works late and has shopping etc so likes to be outside.

 

[OzMike]

My son has 4 on his own, he has his daily drive, which he can park at his apartment and leaves the other 3 at my place.
We live on a 2054 sq m plot, in a couple of years we intend to downsize to free up funds for retirement.
They will have to be gone by then !
I have a work van and car, driveway is a bit crowded, especially if my 2 x daughters visit !

 

[Justice]

Quite lucky in my close as everyone has decent size drives, but I notice many roads locally where I work seem to have plenty of parked cars during the day, many more than 10-15 years back.
I do see a fair few houses that have a caravan or camping van on their driveway but their cars parked outside neighbours houses.
What I find odd is when I see a house with sometimes 2 cars on a driveway that probably haven’t been driven for several years and should really be scrapped, these homeowners usually have a few roadworthy vehicles parked in the street.

You really are selling Newhaven

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

5minute job you couldn't do remember

I was only jesting. The last “5 minute” job I did to replace hinges on a garden gate took about 2 hours!

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

I seem to have the reverse issue in our Road where everyone also has a drive. Left hand neighbour, 0 cars; Right hand family, 1 car. Two elderly neighbours opposite, 1 car between them. We do however live 150m from a school and if it rains the road is a nightmare for half an hour each side of dropping off/picking up time including cars parked fully on a pavement right next to a junction.

 

[Chicken Run]

In the same way 2nd homes are seen as an additional tax income, I can see 2nd, 3rd and so on vechies registered to the same person becoming an additional tax revenue stream.

By the data coming in on thread that would be a popular policy, one way to get less people driving would be to increase the age to 21 to drive and make 75 year olds retake their test.

Out of my three children 30, 25 & 21 only the 21 yo has a license but as of yet doesn’t own a car. They all use public transportation regularly.

 

[Happy Exile]

Did I mention not keeping to the left at train stations or ignoring escalator etiquette in London ?

Cyclists going through red lights, compulsory life sentence.

Amazing. I'd like suggest something for people who block the flow of pedestrians too. For example, on a single day in London yesterday I had someone get off a train and just stop, blocking 75% of the door, look left and right and try to work out which way to go down the platform while everyone else tried to squeeze around him before the doors closed again, someone come out of a shop without looking and turn left walking 0.0000001mph while checking her phone (woman with a pushchair nearly knocked her over), and someone get off an escalator with a suitcase and decide that was the appropriate place to stop and adjust the small bag he'd tied around the handle because at 5.45pm at London Bridge obviously there's no-one going to be behind him at all - this nearly caused someone to fall backwards in the pile-up and could have been nasty. I don't know if all this is a relatively new phenomenon or if I'm just getting less tolerant and notice it more. Either way, 6 months community service to help them recognise that other people exist wouldn't seem unfair.

 

[WATFORD zero]

This is the kind of common sense thinking that’s sadly so missing in politics today. I’d vote for you (if that didn’t undermine the bit about a military coup and a dictatorship).

Benign dictatorship - it's the way ahead

If recent years have shown anything, it's that democracy is vastly overrated.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Did I mention not keeping to the left at train stations or ignoring escalator etiquette in London ?

Cyclists going through red lights, compulsory life sentence.

Bloody train drivers ..get paid enough u would have thought they could keep the train on the left side

 

[clapham_gull]

Tourist congregating in large groups outside of shops.

The man in Waitrose who buys shopping for 4/5 friends, pays INDIVUALLY IN CASH FOR EACH ONE, applies the vouchers they INDIVIDUALLY COLLECTED and updates ALL OF THEIR LOYALTY CARDS.

Do not get in a queue behind him.

 

[Zeberdi]

Wow, has your unicorn got off its leash again? Yes, there is an issue where people park on the pavement or grass verges, but to say if you want more than one car, you've got to move to a mythical place where everyone has room is a slight stretch on most peoples financial realities

‘Again’?! I’m not jn the habit of posting fanciful solutions but if someone can afford to run 3 cars in their household, they can afford to buy house with a driveway so they can park a few of them off road or in a way that doesn’t make their neighbours lives a nightmare.

I moved to a lower income area because I couldn’t afford to live in Brighton - people adapt. If I had a car (which I don’t) I wouldn’t rely on having to park my car by blocking the road, on a pavement or blocking my neighbour’s access - if you have so many cars, that that is your only parking option, you should move or get rid of one of the cars. End of.

It’s my pov and I’m entitled to it - a bit like people who get cats when they have no garden, happy to let their cats use their neighbours gardens as toilets are a pet bugbear too.

 

[MJsGhost]

Between us and our immediate neighbours, we have 5 cars between us (1 per adult). We don't have a drive or garage so have to rely on on-street parking.
Both neighbours had garages but they've been converted to utility rooms, which doesn't help the parking situation. One has a short drive, but using it means they can't open the external door to the utility, so it is often empty, meaning all 5 cars are on-street (plus most of the other locals as few have more than 1 space on a drive or a garage). The road is only wide enough for parking on one side, which still means single-file traffic only.
It can be quite annoying having to park a little way away from our house, particularly when trying to get a dog, both kids (18 months and nearly 4) and their paraphernalia in, but it is what it is... [sucks air through teeth].
Our neighbour on one side is an old battleaxe - she'll fly out of her house and tell people to scarper if they try to park opposite her house - a bit rich seeing as it's a) a public road and b) she converted her garage. It's true to form though - she's a selfish c***.

Public transport isn't really a viable option for anyone here though. It's a nearly 3 mile walk to a bus service that offers anything more than the 2 or 3 buses per week that come through the village.