Mad neighbours

We thankfully have lovely neighbours though some are a bit weird, which is fine because we probably are too.
A couple a few doors up play some kind of dragons and dungeons game that involves dressing up, they belong to a local group and one of our DDs got a shock when she came round one day and saw them having a cup of tea with us in full fancy dress.

Why are they odd and troublesome? Why are you watching them?

It isn’t any of your business what they spend their money on, is it?

As others have pointed out, off-road parking will increase the value of their home, help if they become disabled and make it attractive to future owners who are disabled. Someone will recoup that in time even if it’s only their heirs.

As for stopping people parking in front. That remains to seen.

Just seems a shame to me - as I don't like front gardens vanishing to parking basically. But I'd consider myself lucky if that was all I'd noticed from neighbours here.

Loads and loads of trespassing to start with - cost to deal with £2,000 for security cameras and £1,000 for a barrier at the entrance to my garden to stop them driving in as well.

One neighbour out to steal a bit of my garden - and darn well managed it too (mixed finances = £3,000 on solicitor bill on the one hand but that house are the ones now responsible for replacing my retaining wall = £10,000-£20,000 and that bill is now theirs and not mine). The one blessing is that I figured it all out and Mr-I've figured out his previous financial history (bad!) was almost certainly after a rather bigger chunk of my garden (now that would have made logical sense = from his point of view) and didnt manage to steal that much.

They've done a lot of parking unsuitably for my visitors in vehicles to get into my garden. But one of them pushed it way too far one time and I deliberately had her blocked in for some time by a visitor-in-vehicle of mine and that stopped that and she hasnt tried it on since. She clearly learnt her lesson.

Thankfully things are improving bit by bit as things change round here. I've now got a neighbour, for instance, not that far from me who told me "I tella you you tella me if you need someone for anything - I find for you" and he employs a noticeable number of people himself and has connections with a different set of tradies to what my old neighbours had. He even marched in with a set of computer tools the other day when my computer died on me - sorted it out and wouldnt take any payment for it.

So things are getting better bit by bit...not perfect yet (as a tradie let me down about coming round for a quote yesterday for some minor work and I added it up as "Nope it's not the unreliability a lot of them have here towards me - he knew my previous neighbours and let me down deliberately".) But I've found another one that's possible - and who I've figured out doesn't know my previous neighbours and so probably won't let me down (due to old neighbours instructions to be unhelpful to me - yep...I worked it out that's what had happened).

Well it’s hardly your business if they want to spend £5000 on a car park in their front garden, or if they want to spend £5000 on a far flung holiday, or give it to the local cats home what’s it to do with anyone else ?

Maybe it'll reduce their insurance to have off-street parking, and may make the property more attractive when it's sold by them or whoever inherits.

I hoped for much more interesting 'madness' from this thread.

At their age, they may no longer want to have to keep a front garden looking tidy, and may also want a shorter distance to their car.

As they are spending their money not yours, I would not worry about it in your place.

Will he have applied for a dipped curb there then?
Presumably....