Neighbor keeps parking in front of our house

[Anonymous]

I wish people weren’t allowed to park on the street. In my parents’ town you aren’t allowed on the street overnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish people weren’t allowed to park on the street. In my parents’ town you aren’t allowed on the street overnight.

Then move to your parents' town. I for one would hate that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a public street. You do not own the space in front of your house.

End of story.

Neither do the rude people.

That is the story. Try and keep up

I don't have to "keep up" I am not bothered if someone parks in front of my house on a public street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a public street. You do not own the space in front of your house.

End of story.

Neither do the rude people.

That is the story. Try and keep up

I don't have to "keep up" I am not bothered if someone parks in front of my house on a public street.

One would argue that you are keeping up if you've put in enough time to even notice that someone replied to your comment (on a 7 page post) and then submit another response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We spent 15 years living in some of the more urban areas of DC, where people would have laughed out loud at someone who suggested that no one park in front of their house. We moved to the burbs about 7 years ago, and I confess, I feel a quick twinge of irritation when someone parks in front of my house. But I quickly stamp it down, because IT'S FREAKIN' RIDICULOUS. Who cares?

Seriously, OP, why do you care? You already said it doesn't impact your life at all.

Absolute horsesh*t. I've lived in Capitol Hill and Old Town (SE quadrant no less) and everyone knows that the only way you take the spot in front of someon'es house is if there are literally no other spots available.

Like the Del Ray guy said- it is the height of rudeness to park in front of someone else's house and leave it there for a day or more. Taking up two spots would get your tires slashed in Boston.

The whole idea is to lessen the burden of lugging kids and groceries in and out of the house. If obeyed, everyone benefits. All the toys go back into their places.

That might work where there are large SF rowhouses and no multi-family housing, at least a few blocks form a commercial strip - maybe. I lived in Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights, close to apartments buildings, condos, retail and restaurants, and where there's no street parking during the working day on one side of the street. Even apart from the visitors to the area who park, there simply isn't one spot per residence on those streets, never mind multiple spots per residence. You park where you can, hope it isn't more than a half a block away, and do a little jog if you find a spot in front of your house.

Please try and keep up. Are you always this dense?

Rowhouses aren't SF houses. They are, by natur.e and name, ... part of a row of houses. Please, try to keep up.

[Anonymous]

Can't wait until the first snow that needs plowing and people fight over shoveled spaces!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We spent 15 years living in some of the more urban areas of DC, where people would have laughed out loud at someone who suggested that no one park in front of their house. We moved to the burbs about 7 years ago, and I confess, I feel a quick twinge of irritation when someone parks in front of my house. But I quickly stamp it down, because IT'S FREAKIN' RIDICULOUS. Who cares?

Seriously, OP, why do you care? You already said it doesn't impact your life at all.

Absolute horsesh*t. I've lived in Capitol Hill and Old Town (SE quadrant no less) and everyone knows that the only way you take the spot in front of someon'es house is if there are literally no other spots available.

Like the Del Ray guy said- it is the height of rudeness to park in front of someone else's house and leave it there for a day or more. Taking up two spots would get your tires slashed in Boston.

The whole idea is to lessen the burden of lugging kids and groceries in and out of the house. If obeyed, everyone benefits. All the toys go back into their places.

That might work where there are large SF rowhouses and no multi-family housing, at least a few blocks form a commercial strip - maybe. I lived in Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights, close to apartments buildings, condos, retail and restaurants, and where there's no street parking during the working day on one side of the street. Even apart from the visitors to the area who park, there simply isn't one spot per residence on those streets, never mind multiple spots per residence. You park where you can, hope it isn't more than a half a block away, and do a little jog if you find a spot in front of your house.

Please try and keep up. Are you always this dense?

Rowhouses aren't SF houses. They are, by natur.e and name, ... part of a row of houses. Please, try to keep up.

Not quite. There are row houses in which a single family lives, and that would be a SFH. Then there are ones that are broken up into apartments, and those are not SFH. A house need not be detached from its neighbors to be a SFH—go to any college town and you will see huge old Victorians that are a warren of student apartments. They have multiple bathrooms and kitchens.

[Anonymous]

OP, you are right to be upset about a work van being parked in front of your house when the neighbors have plenty of space to park in front of their home.

Ask them to please park the work van in front of their home. If uncooperative, then you just need to park in front of your house.

Regardless, this is not likely to end well.

This thread makes me thankful for my neighbors.

[Anonymous]

To OP: Any chance that the neighbors are doing this intentionally as a way to annoy you ?

Do you think that your neighbors dislike you ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We spent 15 years living in some of the more urban areas of DC, where people would have laughed out loud at someone who suggested that no one park in front of their house. We moved to the burbs about 7 years ago, and I confess, I feel a quick twinge of irritation when someone parks in front of my house. But I quickly stamp it down, because IT'S FREAKIN' RIDICULOUS. Who cares?

Seriously, OP, why do you care? You already said it doesn't impact your life at all.

Absolute horsesh*t. I've lived in Capitol Hill and Old Town (SE quadrant no less) and everyone knows that the only way you take the spot in front of someon'es house is if there are literally no other spots available.

Like the Del Ray guy said- it is the height of rudeness to park in front of someone else's house and leave it there for a day or more. Taking up two spots would get your tires slashed in Boston.

The whole idea is to lessen the burden of lugging kids and groceries in and out of the house. If obeyed, everyone benefits. All the toys go back into their places.

That might work where there are large SF rowhouses and no multi-family housing, at least a few blocks form a commercial strip - maybe. I lived in Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights, close to apartments buildings, condos, retail and restaurants, and where there's no street parking during the working day on one side of the street. Even apart from the visitors to the area who park, there simply isn't one spot per residence on those streets, never mind multiple spots per residence. You park where you can, hope it isn't more than a half a block away, and do a little jog if you find a spot in front of your house.

Please try and keep up. Are you always this dense?

Rowhouses aren't SF houses. They are, by natur.e and name, ... part of a row of houses. Please, try to keep up.

Not quite. There are row houses in which a single family lives, and that would be a SFH. Then there are ones that are broken up into apartments, and those are not SFH. A house need not be detached from its neighbors to be a SFH—go to any college town and you will see huge old Victorians that are a warren of student apartments. They have multiple bathrooms and kitchens.

THe 'single' in SFH not only refers to a unit for one family but it refers to one unit existing on oits own. If there is another home attcahed to it, it isn't a single family home. At least not in the eyes of the mortage holder and insurer. Language matters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a public street. You do not own the space in front of your house.

End of story.

Neither do the rude people.

That is the story. Try and keep up

I don't have to "keep up" I am not bothered if someone parks in front of my house on a public street.

One would argue that you are keeping up if you've put in enough time to even notice that someone replied to your comment (on a 7 page post) and then submit another response.

Well there you go - that makes two of us.

[Anonymous]

I read a bunch of the responses and I still don’t get why it’s rude for people to park in front of another house.

I’ve lived in DC proper and in the MD burbs and I don’t get why this would bother anyone if it’s public parking unless a car is abandoned or something. It’s not your spot just because it’s in front of your house any more than it’s your pavement. If no one has a driveway or alley I can imagine how etiquette could develop but it doesn’t sound like OP wants to park there anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are right to be upset about a work van being parked in front of your house when the neighbors have plenty of space to park in front of their home.

Ask them to please park the work van in front of their home. If uncooperative, then you just need to park in front of your house.

Regardless, this is not likely to end well.

This thread makes me thankful for my neighbors.

Why???? I’m so confused! If you don’t want to park there, how on earth does it hurt you for a van to be parked in front of your house in a legal space?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a public street. You do not own the space in front of your house.

End of story.

Neither do the rude people.

That is the story. Try and keep up

I don't have to "keep up" I am not bothered if someone parks in front of my house on a public street.

One would argue that you are keeping up if you've put in enough time to even notice that someone replied to your comment (on a 7 page post) and then submit another response.

Well there you go - that makes two of us.

No, it doesn't. You really aren't that bright. You were the one claiming you ddn't need to keep up. And you proved it by isolating a single comment on a 7 page thread. PP just pointed it out. What's next? A post claiming you don't care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read a bunch of the responses and I still don’t get why it’s rude for people to park in front of another house.

I’ve lived in DC proper and in the MD burbs and I don’t get why this would bother anyone if it’s public parking unless a car is abandoned or something. It’s not your spot just because it’s in front of your house any more than it’s your pavement. If no one has a driveway or alley I can imagine how etiquette could develop but it doesn’t sound like OP wants to park there anyway.

It's not rude short term (1-2 days), but it IS rude to park your car for chunks of time, in front of someone's home. Street parking isn't for parking your car for days on end, especially in front of someone's else's home. Don't accessibility to people's homes for like a week. If you don't understand how this is rude, I don't know what to say.