I've occasionally had a commercial van parked right outside my house - the distance from my front window to the kerb is about one metre. The van owner does not live in our street, but that is the only parking space he could find.
I don't like it one bit - but I chose to live in a street full of terraced 'ye Olde world' stone houses with no off street parking so accept that as one of the drawbacks.
The man-with-the-van is a tradesman who I might even need one day, who knows - he has to earn a living.
The whole street has a line of cars parked on both sides - it's also narrow so there are frequent traffic jams as it's a through road from one town to another.
Parking is a problem wherever you live now. Public transport is expensive, not always viable, and difficult if you are transporting children and shopping from A to B.
... in fact, even just living through the humdrum minutiae of every day life in general is becoming increasingly irksome- refuse collection can be complex with numerous boxes / bins into which you have to sort this that and the other; we, in common with others, never know if the postman will arrive in the morning, afternoon, or even that day; there is escalating low-level anti-social behaviour in the town but no police to deal with it; graffiti is making its debut round here...
Parking problems are all part and parcel of the same gradual decline of our towns and some cities.
