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Well, you can spend the time and attention on entering the parking space, or spend the time and attention on leaving it. My own decision tree includes whether or not I need to open the back hatch door to put stuff in. If yes, then forward park into the space - if no, then reverse in.
Your first sentence is basically my thought process too. If getting out is going to be more of a pain, because of traffic or a tight spot, I'll reverse. But if there's lots of cars waiting or I'm running late when parking I'll always go for a forward park if I can.
I'm usually more tired and anxious at the end of a drive than the start so I prefer to make life easy for myself.
That was exactly it - it would have been more of a hassle to reverse out, given the pillar, the van on the other side and the local Karen population driving around in their SUVs on their mobiles.
Only downside was I would have liked to use the hatch but the back seat did just as well.