I'm working class, lived on council estate in poor area growing up. My Mam had a lovely front garden and an even better back garden, all the houses on the estate did and people spent a lot of time making the front gardens look beautiful, but nobody ever spent anytime in it other than doing the gardening, kids never played in front gardens either. Wasn't a privacy thing as back gardens all overlooked each other.
It happens a lot where dh is from, 10 adults from varuios houses sitting in driveways of one, sometimes on the pavement outside house if there's no front garden or drive way. It really doesn't bother me as almost always it's just people chatting.
However, it's a big problem two streets over from me. For the last year or so there's five households that gather in each other's driveways all day and night, that on its own is nothing, but they drink all day long, don't watch any of the dc and are constantly sweating and shouting at the children or each other. Stinks of weed when you walk along. Two of the families have dogs that are left to roam the street shitting everywhere. It used to be just one household and their mates would walk up from elsewhere, but as residents have got fed up and sold houses, private landlords have bought them cheap and they are now rented to mates of first household.
Friend used to live in said street until six months ago, she coukdnt relax leaving house empty as they'd know and many a time stuff has been stolen frim back yard and broke in street, stuff like gnomes and bird baths, speaking to parents got her a load of threats and abuse, police do fuck all.
Several residents have caught the children trying to break into their sheds, one dc is only two years old and as I type He is running up and down the middle of the road with a screwdriver, no socks and shoes and no top, just shorts shouting "fuck youuu" at his Dad who's shouting him from two streets over.
If we shut windows we can't hear it too much unless the fighting spills over to our street, or if the kids are breaking things in our street. But residents in same street are fed up and are selling houses at much less than they are worth, and moving.
Police shoved letters asking everyone to report antisocial behaviour, nothing ever happens. friend reported to social services too. Can't say it's worse in summer as it's all year round in all weathers to be honest.
Using the front garden isn't unreasonable. Being inconsiderate to neighbours when doing it is.