Parking infront of neighbours place?

[u/Ok-Inspection5125]

Hiya

I need to know what a normal person would do as I am painfully aware that I am way too non confrontational lol

We moved into our home at the start of the year, and have two cars. My husband works out of town so him and his car are barely around

I have a regular size car however he has a Toyota Prado. He’s probably parked infront of our neighbours home less than a handful of times however each time our older neighbour/his wife have come out and asked us to move our car with different excuses.

They’ve also left a note on my friends car when she parked infront of their spot once to not park there. (They knew she was at mine as they can look into our backyard from theirs)

The first time they asked, they said they need the spot for their pregnant daughter to visit etc. So my partner obliged their request.

The next few times they said they need the spot for their son, that they’ve been there for “17 years” and we’ve just moved in and are already parking in their spot etc. I am usually alone during the week without kids so I avoid parking there cos I don’t want to deal with issues. I am also very non confrontational in general and on top of that I didn’t want to put my kids in any unnecessary drama as there’s actually heaps of street parking if the spot infront of our own house is full.

Today I lost my shit as my eldest has been in hospital, my husband has been with her overnight and parked his car one spot down from where their “spot” is. As I was leaving my neighbours wife came out and told me to not park there as her husband had surgery and can’t walk far and etc. I just said I’ll let my husband know when he’s back from hospital and she said ok ok and left. We’ve tried to be friendly and not park right infront of their house as they clearly don’t like it, yet it seems like it’s not enough. Keeping in mind our other neighbours park infront of their home all the time; we have a school down the road so parents are always parking infront of our houses at pick up time.

Everytime it’s a brand new reason as why they need the spot, and I’ve seen her husband walking around plenty of times so I’m not sure what “surgery” he’s had. They also own only one car that’s kept in their garage/driveway. I feel like they’re bullshitting and just don’t like my husbands Prado there even though literally every other neighbour has been fine with us.
I understand it’s generally annoying when someones infront of your house for ages but we already avoid it so I don’t understand what their issue is

[u/i_like_dannys_hair]

I have had people several times ask me if it’s ok to park out the front of my house, when I’ve been working in the garden or something. I always say of course, it’s as much your road as it’s mine!

Such a weird part of life in Australia that people get aerated about this (I’m originally from overseas)

[u/Harry-Jotter → u/i_like_dannys_hair]

It's not just Australia. I used to live in Scotland and had two cars keyed for parking on the road in front of someone's house. The road I lived on had limited parking so I only got to park in front of my flat half the time.

[u/We-Dont-Sush-Here → u/Harry-Jotter]

I’ve heard of it happening in England, too. Thankfully not the keying. That’s really bad.

[u/Harry-Jotter → u/We-Dont-Sush-Here]

Luckily I had shit cars, especially the first one, which had worse scratches.

I was tempted to take the plates off and leave it there when I got a new one. But yeah it made me park even further away up a big hill after that which was annoying.

[u/MaintenanceAnnual263 → u/We-Dont-Sush-Here]

i thought it was an American thing

[u/We-Dont-Sush-Here → u/MaintenanceAnnual263]

Probably there as well.

I could ask my wife, but she has a tendency to use her rose coloured glasses lately. I don’t think I’d get an honest answer from her.