"HERE" no one cooks in the front, and barely sits in the front, porch or no, even parties are in the back.
Of course "here" there is very little smoking tradition, so no smokers being stored in a garage. It's just the way it is.
Visited a cousin once in N Carolina, the neighbors were "smoking" their garbage in a burn barrel in the front yard, they were sitting downwind, IN the smoke on lawn chairs sipping adult beverages.
Seemed odd to me....
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