http://besquirrely.com/2010/06/29/porch-envy/ creating a nest worth sharing Wed, 15 May 2013 01:27:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://besquirrely.com/2010/06/29/porch-envy/#comment-529 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:28:27 +0000 http://besquirrely.com/?p=1074#comment-529 Gore, maybe your new neighborhood in Milwaukee??

]]> http://besquirrely.com/2010/06/29/porch-envy/#comment-528 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:57:23 +0000 http://besquirrely.com/?p=1074#comment-528 Spot on! Mutti should be an urban planning professor. Sigh – I would love to live somewhere with grand front porches and people sitting there, slowly enjoying life. Maybe you can start a porch revival in your neighborhood?

]]> http://besquirrely.com/2010/06/29/porch-envy/#comment-524 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:17:22 +0000 http://besquirrely.com/?p=1074#comment-524 Thanks for the history on it. It makes perfect sense!

]]> http://besquirrely.com/2010/06/29/porch-envy/#comment-523 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:18:33 +0000 http://besquirrely.com/?p=1074#comment-523 I think Chris nailed it. BTW, the disappearance of front porches is theorized to be an indirect result of the advent of the automobile – prior to its instant mobility, people walked more, and visited more – front porches were used as summertime sitting rooms. Autos allowed people to visit other people far away, and people started using the inside of homes rather than the outside. Atleast that’s part of what I remember from one of my history courses (history of the automobile) I took many moons ago.

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