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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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this whole thread is precisely why I LIKE living in a covenant-restricted neighborhood. Who wants to weave down their street to avoid cars parked everywhere, and live with a car graveyard parked all over their neighbor's property? No thanks.
It's the reason I won't live anywhere that has an HOA. The city does a good job banning non-operating vehicles from being visible (must be garaged or behind a fence) but I have no problem with people parking on the street. I find weaving around them to just make driving more fun. There is plenty of room or the city would designate that as a no parking zone. Here is an example in our neighborhood.
Try living in Portland, Oregon where they like to build apartment buildings with no parking for the tenants, who then park their cars all over the formally quiet neighborhoods next to their complexes......or the people who don't want to pay parking fees at the airport, so they just park their cars in a residential neighborhood next to one of Portland's light rail stations and leave them in front of someones house for a week or two.
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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Try living in Portland, Oregon ... so they just park their cars in a residential neighborhood next to one of Portland's light rail stations and leave them in front of someones house for a week or two.
Portland is a great place to buy 'Impounded cars' (3 towing companies were selling 600+ cars / week)
Street parking is a crap situation all the way around. I am glad to live in the country, real country. My neighbors on each side have several cars, as we do - all are parked in our driveways and garages, I can hardly see theirs, they can hardly see mine. Unless they let one roll through my fence, I am perfectly cool with whatever they want to do.
Long ago I lived in a subdivision and put my better cars in the garage, left my old, ragged air cooled VW Baja bug out on the street. Out in front of my own house. Some old biddy decided to complain, I got a call. OK, fine, it has not moved for a week, I'll move it then. Early Sunday morning, I fired it up (header with glass pack) and made it a point to warm it up damn good, then cut a couple of "hot laps" around the neighborhood in the snow. Mostly running about 4000 RPM.
Oddly enough, I never got another call the whole time I lived there.
I sympathize with the OP but what is described is pretty common in tightly packed suburban settings. Luck of the draw as to who you get for neighbors. It sounds like the lots are small and the houses close to the road, precluding having ample parking in the driveways and garages. Public roads are just that, public, and so the parking situation is going to be one of the hazards of living in settings like that.
The designers of such neighborhoods tend to want to maximize the number of units and don't concern themselves with what do people do that have lots of cars. Not that rural or small town living doesn't have it's own potential neighbor issues too, but at least we do have ample room for all of our vehicles.
What does this have to do with rural and small town living? It sounds like a suburban and city issue.
........"small town living "..
Happens just as much there as in a suburb.
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(3 towing companies were selling 600+ cars / week)
