our circle of family and friends do; including myself. Especially if it's a large get together and the street parking is minimal, this may not be avoided.
Not only guests, but delivery vehicles, etc. Where parking for 'just a few seconds/minutes' could end up being half an hour to hours.
See, if it was a LARGE get-together, I would never do that. Why should *I* park in the driveway, versus someone with a disability, or someone who is elderly, or just someone who may be closer to the couple? The only way I'd park in a driveway is if it was a CLOSE family member or friend and I was the only person coming over and had done it before or was told I could.
Thankfully, people think our driveway is our neighbor's driveway (even though the detached garage matches our house) so they rarely park there, although there aren't many parking spots on our street. (Which is the opposite of our last apartment, where people though our neighbor's driveway, which was near our front door, was ours.) The house on the corner has a driveway off the street that runs parallel to their house, so our driveway is technically the second one on our street, but we're the third house.
It's basically a combination of all of these. The one house that we found; it has a long driveway next to the front house (the house we're looking at), and in the dark, no one would know that there's a back house. I can just imagine friends and family who knows DH and my car are already parked somewhere else (garage/street/small driveway next to the long one); would assume that the vacant driveway is a free for all. The street the house was in had a lot of apartment buildings as well; so the street is pretty dense as it is with street cars.
It's just a hassle that I don't want to deal with; but I understand it's not a deal breaker for some.
We technically don't, they are separate lanes, but are connected at the top by the garages. It's actually a plus bc we can turn the car around and drive down instead of backwards- which would be bad considering we are on a steep hill. We park all cars in our respective garages and it hasn't been an issue.
Am I the only one who would never arrive at someone's house and just assume I can park in their driveway? This seems incredibly presumptuous unless it's a longtime/close friend.
Huh. It has never occurred to me NOT to park on a friends driveway. That's what they are for?
ETA: of course I'd never park in a shared driveway.