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Neighborhoods where everyone parks on the street

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jtvang125

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If you live in a suburban neighborhood does this bother you? It never really bothered me before but after being a home owner for a year it does get on my nerves sometimes. Definitely one of the things to consider next time if I sell and buy again in the future.
 
Are you saying your neighbors park on the street instead of in their driveway/garage? Why would they do that?
 
In our neighborhood people do that, and they leave their driveways and garages empty. Most of my neighbors have converted their attached garages into living spaces (or overfilled storage spaces with no room for their vehicles). I think we are the only house on the street that use both garage bays.
 
at least you have a garage and dont need to use the street. a lot of areas there are no choice, and then when it snows youre FORCED to move your car but you dont have anywhere to put it.
 
Not in my current neighborhood, but the last two, yes. I didn't lose any sleep over it, but there's no question that a street / tree line looks a lot better without a bunch of cars parked out there.
 
My neighbors mostly park in their driveways. However, one couple has three cars, so they park the daily driver on the street. Knucklehead parked it right across from another neighbor's driveway - in the path of that neighbor's Suburban - until it got hit. Now he parks it farther down the street.
 
My neighborhood is pretty much this way. It's an annoyance since the road is then barely wide enough to let a single car drive by if there are cars parked on both sides of the road.

The reason for my neighborhood having this problem is I rent a house in an area next to a big university. So there are quite a few houses here that have multiple students all living together. The houses aren't exactly big either with only 1 car garages at most. When you have 4 or 5 adults living in a place like that with 4 or 5 cars and space for only 1 or 2 cars to park in the driveway/garage then you are going to have plenty of people parking in the street. Factor in most people have their garage full of crap as well. Which no parking available in the garage.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
Well duh. That's where the beer pong table goes.
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That's certainly where one neighbor keeps there beer pong table. The other neighbors have larger porches so they keep it out back. Another set down the street look to all be band members and have their garage as some sort of studio setup. Least they don't play the past 8pm on week nights.
 
Red Storm said:
Unless they consistently park in front of your house, who cares?
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My issue is that when the neighbors across the street park on their side of the road, they are parked directly across from my driveway so I have to cut the corner really tight when I back out to miss his car. Also, during the winter it means the plows only plow the center of the road, leaving it a mess.
 
The only places I've been where this became an issue were Boston and LA.

Driving to my friends house I remember turning down a street in LA and both sides were lined with cars. There was barely enough room for my car to drive. Problem was that it was a two way road, if someone came the other way one person had to move, somehow.
 
My friend lived in a decent neighborhood. Suburban, 2-3 bedroom houses that dates back to the 60's. Most of these houses have been remodeled. Beautiful landscaping and lots if upgrades on most of them.
Except for the rental houses.
Across from his house on a corner were rednecks. They had two driveways, one on each street. They never used them. The screwballs always parked in front of my friends house. Annoying when they had guests over for dinners or get togethers.
Neighbors also had a massive trailer they used for camping. I can see Top Gear's hate for "caravans" quite easily now. It's like one of those but 20% bigger. I think we call them 5th wheel trailers.
One of their driveways is long RV/camper driveway that is popular in a lot homes here. The mouth breathers never used it for anything.

My neighborhood is mostly apartments. Where people pile up in there like clown cars. And the houses down the street are rentals. Same thing. Multiple families occupying one house.
Two fuckers really annoy me. One guy in a small penis truck was dumb enough to BUY a condo with underground parking. And yep, the truck can't fit. So he parks his mammoth truck on the street.
Another asshole flips cars. POS ones too. Typically, 3 cars would fit in spots between red zones and driveways. But he would park his "for sale" car right in the middle, where maybe one other car might fit.
His other car was in the batters circle for being flipped. He actually had that in the garage. Assigned parking, so it didn't bother me at first. But it was directly beneath my condo. His fucking alarm went off 9 in the morning and into the next night.
I finally saw him in the act of shuffling cars, and I told him to knock the shit off. I don't care about what he does to make money. But don't ever make it inconvenient to anybody else.
He now parks his cars blocks away. All he had to do was just park his cars properly, and check on them once a day.
Lazy people. I hate them.
 
Most of the roads in my town have no choice but to park on the street. It's a densely populated town. It does cost more on insurance if you park in the street.
 
Only 2 neighbors park on the street, and they live across from each other while leaving their driveways empty, I kindof wish someone would hit and run them with a dump truck someday.
 
outside of rural areas, I'm not sure I've ever seen a neighborhood where no one parked on the street at all.

growing up in my parents house, we lived in the suburbs and had a driveway but still parked on the street. it was inconvenient to have more than 1 car in the driveway, so typically 3 of the 4 cars would be on the street.

street-only parking in my current neighborhood... my friends who live out in the suburbs complain whenever they have to drive to my house, but I don't think it's that bad. on the worst nights (eg: getting home from work at 7-8 pm), I'm parking a block away. if I'm home by 6 or on the weekend, I'm usually parking within a house or two of my own.
 
HOA should just tow the cars. Residents are not allowed to sully our neighborhood with poor people behavior like parking in the street.
 
I like having the option of parking on the street. That said, I have a driveway and use it. Sometimes I park on my yard though, when I am having a LOT of people over.
 
I doesnt bother me if they are used daily. I bought my house nearly three years ago and the people just across from me have had a car parked in the street for almost 5 years without moving it. It doesnt run and has a flat tire. We have talked to the city about it but they havent done anything about it. I did notice last week that someone has drawn a dick on one of the windows.
 
Sixguns said:
I doesnt bother me if they are used daily. I bought my house nearly three years ago and the people just across from me have had a car parked in the street for almost 5 years without moving it. It doesnt run and has a flat tire. We have talked to the city about it but they havent done anything about it. I did notice last week that someone has drawn a dick on one of the windows.
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that's one point in favor of street cleaning... that'd be a ticket every week in my neighborhood.
 
I park on the street. There are only one or two cars parked on the street, mine being one of them. I do this because we have a single car-wide driveway and I get home before my wife and leave before her and don't feel like getting out to move cars around every night. Nobody complains, besides it's not hurting anything.
 
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people do that here, because they have multiple cars and only a 1-car driveway. It's not anyone's fault, but it annoys me because the road is only so wide and cars parked on both sides make it a bother. Thankfully I don't usually drive down that end of the street.

Oh the one across from me does it too (because they have 2 cars but 1 car driveway... whenever I back out I can only go so far before I hit it... so that's a pain in the ass. He has the whole other half of his house to park it, but that side is a curved street so he prefers parking practically in front of my driveway (the side I back out towards).
 
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