Sitting in front gardens??

[curiousgeorgie247]

We bought an ex council house a few years ago. Lovely estate, lovely big houses with large gardens, lovely neighbours.
Most are now owner occupied but there are still a few that are council.
Was having a drink in the sun with neighbours last night in the back garden. It came up about most of the people across the road sit out in the front gardens and we were discussing why anyone would want to when we all have big back gardens. It isn't to do with the sun as they sit out there when it isn't sunny.
We have a driveway now but when it was a garden I would never have chosen to sit in the front garden as opposed to the back.
None of us have ever seen it anywhere other than on council estates. It seems to be a thing.
I'm not criticizing. It doesn't bother me. Each to their own. It just came up last night and thought I'd ask opinions.

I know what you mean Op, my mum used to sit on her front step sometimes on summer nights chatting to her next door neighbour whilst watching all us kids playing out. But not like on the scale today. Going past my mums old house last summer there was a huge couch in the front garden, music blaring out and young teens tearing up and down on bikes. I felt sad for those long ago more gentle times that somehow i don't think we'll ever get back.

Edmund What does cultural appropriation even mean?’

You mean that is really A Thing? Isn't it all just PC gone Maaad?

Isn't it all just PC gone Maaad?

It’s just to keep white peoples down is all, load of nonsense. The word is appreciation after all...

What a weird thread. I live in Los Angeles and we all sit in our front gardens on my street, we like being nosy.

WHAT?! I lived in LA for years and I’ve never seen this. Except south of downtown.

A me,her of my family basically admitted that he moved because the lady opposite sat on her front doorstep and he thought it was common. She wasn’t of the same nationality as the country, maybe it’s the done thing in her country, who knows.

We dismissed a house in a cracking location because it was north facing and we would have had no sun in the back garden in the afternoon. Big boo.

The word is appreciation after all...

That should read is just appreciation after all, but I’m tired and have spent far too much time replying to gfs on here.

my last house was on a cul de sac the back garden was tiny and not very pretty and sloped, my front garden was long, pretty and had the patio bit and got the sun so i used to sit in the front garden in summer, where i am now has a horrid front yard effect and a lovely back garden which gets sun from sun up to sun down so i have moved to the back garden now

I’m too anti social to sit out front. But if I had one of those houses with a veranda then I’d be out

Petulantpolecat we’re on the Westside. It annoys me somewhat at times if I’m honest but at least my parcels never get stolen.

A new roof would be a god send, but we do choose to sit out front, just because we can, much like your neighbours OP, except we're impoverished gentry.

Funny the types who have most in common.

I sit out the front in the afternoon as that's where the sun is!

historically people sat outside by the front step, to be sociable. Life was much more communal for the lower classes.

I lived abroad, hot country, everyones outside their houses at end of day, community gets built that way. Reminds me of playing on the pavement outside the house when I was a kid in the '70's, everyone watching out for each other.

I knew all the old ladies on the street, one would give me goose eggs.

I miss it.

historically people sat outside

Yes when woman stayed at home to raise their own children instead of flogging themselves for minimum pay 45 hours a week to pay for childcare.

Times change

People don't have the time or energy for community relations.

Speak for yourself. Lots of women stay home, and we all raise our own children either way, and many of us have both the time and energy for community relations.

Can we get to the important issue?

Do any of them wear leopard-print coats while sitting in their front gardens?

Don't be silly! It's all bra tops and cut offs

I sit on my front step. I do have a front yard and when Dd2 was smaller it was the front yard we used to hang in.

My back yard is a SHIT HOLE wild area for bees, butterflies, bunnies etc

I have a massive log pile in the center where the grass is dead after we removed the swimming pool. Its there as its easier to get to in the winter when you have multiple feet of snow in the way. I have an old wooden swing set, slowly rotting away at the end of the yard as I have no way to dispose of it even if I did take it to bits. My veggie patch has been over run with a MASSIVE raspberry bush I cant kill. My deck is falling to bits but due to the way it was put together its doing to be a huge and very expensive project to fix. Plus the main reason is my messy back yard drives my NDN mental and we hate each other.

My front yard is lovely. It has ornamental trees and lovely flower beds even the grass is nice. I sit out there

You'd hate me OP, as when I was a youngster we had no front gardens, just a front step (no back garden either - tenement). And to make matters worse, we lived on the cold, dark north side of the street so we sat on the steps of the people across the road in the warm south-facing sunshine. They usually came out and joined us, or at worse ignored us. No-one chased us off, and it was a very warm, social, friendly way to be.

The women sat in deckchairs on the pavement, the boys/men would sometimes stretch out with their shirts off, and the children played. All in the New Town, one of Edinburgh's poshest areas and barely 10 minutes walk from the city centre. We all owned our homes. We embraced our environment and it was just called living, and getting along with everyone else. Don't remember anyone being judgemental about it.

My dad lives in a HA road, he shops in Waitrose and buys crab pate, he was educated privately too, however he loves to have a little late afternoon nap on the front lawn (the sun is there) and his dam top always rides up and exposes a little of his slightly rounded belly. So whilst he looks like an old chubby chav laying there really he's from a very nice background and just landed on some very hard times in the late 80's and now likes a snooze in the sun. That's why he lays out there.

When I visit I sit out there to watch my DS play, the other parents are watching their children too and they are all lovely, one of his neighbours cuts his grass for him as he's getting old and they saw him struggling (whilst she was sat in her white plastic chair out the front) . I prefer it to where I live (I own my house in a private road) where sadly in the 8 years we've lived there we still only know 3 neighbours and that is only to say hello to, and maybe a general chitchat about the weather/news. Definitely a true community feel.

I used to live in a desirable bit of a lovely suburb and we all sat out the front. That was where our gardens were but it was also very sociable.

We live in a vair naice place, all HA in our culdesac (we're not allowed to buy these) lady on corner house has crippling arthritis, she ran pubs her whole life, so she's naturally very sociable, and well loved in the area.

She always sits out the front, she literally can't go anywhere, so gets to talk to people all day from the comfort of her beautiful front garden (whole community helps her keep it so )

Should she fuck off indoors op?

Sorry I am not sure what the point of this thread is? Maybe their back gardens are a tip? Maybe the sun shines more out the front? Maybe they just prefer it!? Why does it matter?

Entertaining over heated children is more fun when you can chat to your neighbours and they can come over.
I love the communal feeling.

You’d judge the pants off us though because we’re also playing music and dh was drinking and smoking in the sunshine (didn’t stop various neighbours stopping by though.

It’s just normal, social behaviour!!