Is your house a good neighbor?

If you have a porch, it probably is.  A porch is an amazing asset to a house, along with a stoop or some other building component that allows you to speak to a neighbor without the requirement of having them come inside.  Now if you have a porch it also serves as a security device, since the possibility exists that someone is there, on the porch it is less likely your car will be stolen, or any other non-neighborly behavior will occur.  It could be as simple as a small bench with plants around it.  Just the impression of a place for people makes your house more neighborly. In almost all of my residential work a porch is almost always present, in some form or another.