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Lesson: People should hang out on stoops more often.

by gk1 4y ago

wintogreen74 4y ago
agreed, but the problem is only those in Brooklyn have stoops, the rest of us get by with porches and decks ;)
AnimalMuppet 4y ago
I think we had more of an actual civic life when they did. But two things changed: Television and air conditioning. Television meant that there was something to do inside. Air conditioning made it possible to go inside, at least in the summer. Now nobody hangs out on stoops.
ajmurmann 4y ago
I just listened to a section in the audiobook We Should Hang Out in which the author describes how people in a Blue Zone in Costa Rica hang out in groups outside every evening and have bbq together. Families with neighbors we etc.. It seems so healthy and I want something like that. In the Portland, OR area houses are required to have porches to foster community, but still most of them are to small to be attractive to hang out on. My house has one, but it's smaller than my other outdoor spaces. I was thinking after I listened to it, how to create a front for a potential future home that fosters community like this. We all seem to long for something liked describes here or in the part in Costa Rica, but nobody does it. How much is architecture/city design vs smaller families vs everyone being busy vs other, isolating entertainment?
- nfriedly 4y ago
  Is "We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends by Billy Baker" the book you're referring to?
- disillusioned 4y ago
  I'm fortunate enough to live in a 100-year-old home in Phoenix, which is a rarity. It happens to be a large neo-classical style (think: colonial) that has a porch that spans the entire front facade. Some times, we'll sit out there, and the number of neighbors we've met on walks and such has been really delightful. You don't have community if you don't have any place to commune, it turns out.
tomcam 4y ago
After 50 years of wanting a house with a stoop I finally bought one, but my house is hundreds of feet off the street :(

Lesson: People should hang out on stoops more often.

by gk1 4y ago

Lesson: People should hang out on stoops more often.

wintogreen74 4y ago

agreed, but the problem is only those in Brooklyn have stoops, the rest of us get by with porches and decks ;)

AnimalMuppet 4y ago

I think we had more of an actual civic life when they did. But two things changed: Television and air conditioning. Television meant that there was something to do inside. Air conditioning made it possible to go inside, at least in the summer. Now nobody hangs out on stoops.

ajmurmann 4y ago

I just listened to a section in the audiobook We Should Hang Out in which the author describes how people in a Blue Zone in Costa Rica hang out in groups outside every evening and have bbq together. Families with neighbors we etc.. It seems so healthy and I want something like that. In the Portland, OR area houses are required to have porches to foster community, but still most of them are to small to be attractive to hang out on. My house has one, but it's smaller than my other outdoor spaces. I was thinking after I listened to it, how to create a front for a potential future home that fosters community like this. We all seem to long for something liked describes here or in the part in Costa Rica, but nobody does it. How much is architecture/city design vs smaller families vs everyone being busy vs other, isolating entertainment?

nfriedly 4y ago
Is "We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends by Billy Baker" the book you're referring to?
disillusioned 4y ago
I'm fortunate enough to live in a 100-year-old home in Phoenix, which is a rarity. It happens to be a large neo-classical style (think: colonial) that has a porch that spans the entire front facade. Some times, we'll sit out there, and the number of neighbors we've met on walks and such has been really delightful. You don't have community if you don't have any place to commune, it turns out.

tomcam 4y ago

After 50 years of wanting a house with a stoop I finally bought one, but my house is hundreds of feet off the street :(