Don't park in front of my uckin house!

[Igster]

Originally Posted by polak

People fail to realize they have no claim to the spot in front of their house.

No they don't. We're not idiots. We get it. People know they have no claim. It's called simple respect. There have been numerous examples in this thread, but your response is not uncommon. And this as well:

Originally Posted by polak

I don't care if my car being in front of your house annoys you. It's not your property. Deal with it.

This is the type of response that annoys most. How about you just show some respect? Have you read nothing in this thread?

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by polak

K there's a massive difference between a poorly maintained property that's an eye sore and simply keeping your tent trailer on you driveway.

Whats the difference between this:

Spoiler!

and this?

Spoiler!

There's a palm tree in the background of the first one meaning its very rarely cold enough to snow. Comfortable temperatures and lots of sunshine can really improve someone's mood to the point where fewer events cause the Jerk switch to be flipped.

[Bunk]

There can't be a very high proportion of residential properties in Calgary that don't have at least 2 garage and/or driveway spaces. If you have a problem with being able to park on your street you probably are not utilizing your own off-street spaces or simply have too many cars.

[Regular_John]

Hmm, a stupidly sprawled out city built around cars has issues with parking spaces.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Hmm, a stupidly sprawled out city built around cars has issues with parking spaces.

A lot of the parking issues are caused by the cities attempt to increase density to combat sprawl. If everyone still has 50' lots there would be tons of parking for all.

As for stupidly sprawled, compared to our contemporary cities in the us and Australia, I'd say our sprawl ranks more along the lines of moderate.

[polak]

Originally Posted by Igster

No they don't. We're not idiots. We get it. People know they have no claim. It's called simple respect. There have been numerous examples in this thread, but your response is not uncommon. And this as well:



This is the type of response that annoys most. How about you just show some respect? Have you read nothing in this thread?

Did you read the rest of my post? I parked in a specific spot outside of my house every night when I lived there. Had to park some where else for ONE night and this guy came and complained like I had parked on his ####ing driveway or something and he didn't even park cars there. He was just annoyed that someone had the audacity to park on the part of the street that happened to be adjacent to his lawn.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Igster

No they don't. We're not idiots. We get it. People know they have no claim. It's called simple respect. There have been numerous examples in this thread, but your response is not uncommon. And this as well:



This is the type of response that annoys most. How about you just show some respect? Have you read nothing in this thread?

I bet when you come Downtown you park on a lot of the side streets and streets with highrise condo's; because why not?

Do you ever think of the people who live/work in those areas?

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I'd say it does equate to not running a tight ship. But yeah, if it was new and well maintained then it probably wouldn't bother me. But if my whole block had a tent trailer on their driveway I'd probably get a little concerned we were starting to look like an RV lot then I may have to make a call. Speed dial 1.

If every house on your block had a tent trailer then they wouldn't look out of place, or any of the discomfort you described in your earlier post would surely be negated by the fact if everyone had a tent trailer then everyone is likely somewhat enthusiastic about camping. Which would indicate your neighbors are cool.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Cappy

I bet when you come Downtown you park on a lot of the side streets and streets with highrise condo's; because why not?

Do you ever think of the people who live/work in those areas?

Ha ha, they all walk or bike to work, because as we all know all people that live downtown also work downtown.

[blueski]

Originally Posted by Sliver

And here's where I'm a total dick. When I was 19 I had a trailer with my girlfriend. An ugly 16-footer from the 1970s. We loved that thing. Where did I park it? My mom's driveway.

I'm not sure why people get more critical as they age. When you're young it's more of a live and let live thing where you don't get worked up about silly things like trailers on the driveway. I definitely see myself aging into the GET OFF MY LAWN guy.

Older people tend to have a large part of their life savings in their houses. They see stuff like this and think, "How the f--- would I sell my house with that thing beside it". Younger folks don't think like that at all.

[blueski]

Originally Posted by Cappy

I bet when you come Downtown you park on a lot of the side streets and streets with highrise condo's; because why not?

Do you ever think of the people who live/work in those areas?

For the record, I only park my stealth camper van on industrial or commercial streets and yes, sometimes it really is down by the river.

[Hevishot]

let me start off by saying that I agree that you don't own the street in front of your house and people are going to park there regardless of what you think. There is a certain courtesy that goes along with not parking in front of somebody's house unless you have no choice or are having guests. 90% of the time we park both vehicles in our garage. Sometimes when I think a neighbor is taking liberties by parking in front of my house for more than a couple days here or there I bring home one of our shop cars and park it there for a few days just to "reclaim" our spot it makes it easy for grocery unloading. I did have to tell one of our neighbors from across the street to not park in front of my house because their POS Dodge drips oil and I don't want a welfare stain in front of my house. He understood and now parks it down the street in front of someone's rental property.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Hevishot

let me start off by saying that I agree that you don't own the street in front of your house and people are going to park there regardless of what you think. There is a certain courtesy that goes along with not parking in front of somebody's house unless you have no choice or are having guests. 90% of the time we park both vehicles in our garage. Sometimes when I think a neighbor is taking liberties by parking in front of my house for more than a couple days here or there I bring home one of our shop cars and park it there for a few days just to "reclaim" our spot it makes it easy for grocery unloading. I did have to tell one of our neighbors from across the street to not park in front of my house because their POS Dodge drips oil and I don't want a welfare stain in front of my house. He understood and now parks it down the street in front of someone's rental property.

Oh man, I hate when somebody's POS leaves an oil stain in front of my house.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by SHOGUN

The bigger the man, the bigger the problems.

Diabetes?

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Hmm, a stupidly sprawled out city built around cars has issues with parking spaces.

This is backwards; sprawling out would result in lower population density for a given area, meaning fewer vehicles competing for available parking spots.

Increasing density results in less land and fewer parking spots available for a greater number of people who may own cars if parking is not provided by way of dedicated lots (above or below ground).

[Aeneas]

Guy on our street has an old Westphalia van painted purple and pink. Also has flowers and scooby doo stuff painted on it. Quite garish, possibly into eyesore territory.

He parks it 10-12 houses away from his house. I suppose it would begin to annoy me if it were right out front of my place.

I find it funny he parks it out of sight (there are usually several options closer to his house, plus his own 2 car garage and driveway)

[squiggs96]

Originally Posted by RyZ

If its once in a while it's not a big deal. Or even at times on a high traffic street or in a busy area like downtown where that is an unavoidable occurrance, but if you park in front of someone elses house in a suburbanish area frequently for long periods of time or overnight then you are being a ######. It doesnt matter if its against the law or not. It's not against the law to talk loudly in a movie theater, pound your stereo/subs with your windows down while gassing up your car (probably with your shirt off) or take a coworkers lunch out of the fridge at work, you are still an inconsiderate ###### if you do it.

In my neighbourhood in Vancouver nobody has a driveway. Very few people have garages that they park cars in, so most vehicles are on the street. When I drive home I park in front of my house if there is room. If not, I park a little east, or a little west of my house, wherever I can find a spot. It doesn't bother me if I have to walk 10 extra seconds.

Depending on which way I'm driving home, sometimes I park on the other side of the road. Sometimes I'm there for a few days in a row. Our street is filled with things like that. Sometimes I come home and my across the street neighbor is parked on the side of the street of my house. That's okay too. If they live on the block and want to park in a free space, that's fine by me. I've never seen anyone in our neighbourhood get upset over which house the car was parked in front of. It doesn't mean you are a dick when you park there. It means you took an open space on a public street.

[Shazam]

When I lived downtown the city gave out stickers that you would put onto the car that allowed you to park on the street. Do they still do that?

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Igster

No they don't. We're not idiots. We get it. People know they have no claim. It's called simple respect. There have been numerous examples in this thread, but your response is not uncommon. And this as well:



This is the type of response that annoys most. How about you just show some respect? Have you read nothing in this thread?

For sure. People that say "it's not illegal" to justify being a dick are what's wrong with society.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by squiggs96

In my neighbourhood in Vancouver nobody has a driveway. Very few people have garages that they park cars in, so most vehicles are on the street. When I drive home I park in front of my house if there is room. If not, I park a little east, or a little west of my house, wherever I can find a spot. It doesn't bother me if I have to walk 10 extra seconds.

Depending on which way I'm driving home, sometimes I park on the other side of the road. Sometimes I'm there for a few days in a row. Our street is filled with things like that. Sometimes I come home and my across the street neighbor is parked on the side of the street of my house. That's okay too. If they live on the block and want to park in a free space, that's fine by me. I've never seen anyone in our neighbourhood get upset over which house the car was parked in front of. It doesn't mean you are a dick when you park there. It means you took an open space on a public street.

That can work, too. I think the problem a lot of people in this thread are talking about is more when there are unwritten rules that everybody follows, except for one or two rogue a-holes. You kind of have to fall into line with your neigbourhood's way of doing things.

[mrkajz44]

I see both sides of the argument and since we park both cars in the garage, it's not a huge deal for us. The space in front of our house is usually occupied by a neighbour though, and what's annoying about that is I can see into their garage all the time and it's just a junkyard with barely enough room for one car. So basically they have so much crap they can't park their car where it really should go.

If you need to park on the street because there is no other option? That's fine. If you park on the street because you've expanded past the normal boundaries of your house? Not as cool.

Add on thought: My neighbour on the other side also has a super messy garage, but parks the extra car on their driveway - why can't people do that more often as a solution to "I filled up my garage with useless junk"?