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Our former neighbor would park their car so close to our mailbox that some mail carriers would not deliver our mail even though the parked car was not ours. I'd often meet the mail truck at the end of our driveway to get our mail.
Regarding someone parking an unknown car in front of your house for days and days, the police will tag it as being abandoned and it can then be towed away if it still remains parked there after a set period of time.
Well duh. I just thought maybe it was more common to do something like that here, odd as it sounded, so thought I'd confirm.
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Originally Posted by nogard13
You might be considered the "bad guy" for raising the issue,
Bingo, exactly why I haven't said anything. It's been my experience (of mine and seeing it w/others) that even when you're not the one in the wrong, and no matter how nicely you try to do it, often you're the bad guy for "starting the confrontation."
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Originally Posted by Francois
How do you even know the owners of the car are Southerners?
I believe that neighbors who allow their guests to do this are rude. Who wants to look out their front window and view an automobile there, almost on their property, when the person whose automobile it is, is visiting someone across the street.
I would not allow someone visiting me to park across the street more in someone else's view, rather than mine.
I do know that the police will ticket a vehicle if it's parked on a residential street and not moved from that place within a 24-hour period. That is illegal.
Plus, I honestly have to say that after having lived in New England, I found this much less common there, as opposed to here in NC. So in my personal experience, yes, it's more of a southern thing. Unfortunately. Unless of course you're talking about the parking designations along city streets, rather than suburbia residential streets. Parking on streets where there is limited availability is not comparable.
best,
toodie
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Why dont you just get street cones and place in front of your house if this such an issue
Yes, my thought exactly. Or put something large in that space so they won't be able to park there. There's someone that visits the neighbor across the street and they park on the opposite side of my driveway and it's narrow and it can be tricky backing out. When the leaves were being piled up by the curb no one could park there and it was nice!
Plus, I honestly have to say that after having lived in New England, I found this much less common there, as opposed to here in NC. So in my personal experience, yes, it's more of a southern thing.
TWO data points = a conclusion?
Wow, let's publish it in a statistics textbook!
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NC plates. By definition, they are Southerners
"Southerner" means someone FROM the South, not someone who happens to be here, perhaps temporarily, long enough to register a car (I can't tell if you were being sarcastic or not).
Is it a "Northern thing" to think that if one neighbor is a jerk, then his/her behavior must automatically be exemplary of every native of the state and region?
I'm in northern Wyoming and have the same problem. The house next to mine has been for sale for awhile, so the owner decided to rent it. Fine. Except that he's a single guy and has three other single guys that he's sharing it with. Bad enough, huh?
But on top of that, he owns a couple drilling trucks -- auger trucks maybe? (Not huge rigs, but each probably 30 feet long.) There's a double-car garage, but nobody ever uses it. They park one big truck in front of his house, three pickups in the driveway, and one pickup and the other big truck in front of my house. Ticks me off! I run a small business out of my home, so if a customer stops by he has to park in front of my other neighbor's house or in my driveway, which they seldom do.
I don't get your comment. What does "TWO data points" refer to?
best,
toodie
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The house next to mine has been for sale for awhile, so the owner decided to rent it. Fine. Except that he's a single guy and has three other single guys that he's sharing it with. Bad enough, huh? 
