why are houses outside ?

Answer 1

you should cut down on the green a bit

Answer 2

I think this is a sincere question, for there cannot be a better inside for us humans than the one contained by a house. The question is if houses are all outside then what is inside? I think this question represents a subjective mood of the observer. There could be some personal experiences experienced recently involving issues of insecurity and comfort - sometimes a sense of danger compliments feelings of security and comfort. I picture houses as if they are painted, all still and clam but outside and open sprawled about a landscape. The shortest answer can be – the houses are outside because the observer is inside – inside of something. What is the outside of the observer depends upon what is his or her inside, which we can only guess. As I have just said that this is like an expression of an observation in a subjective mood. So, you may be in the comfort of you own house that is also your home looking through an open window out to the world outside. Or you may be in the comfort of you own thought and feelings. Under all situations however the answer is the same – all houses are outside because you are inside.

Answer 3

A house is a barrier to the outside--it is a bridge from the inside to the outside. The inside of a house is the inside, the outside of a house is outside--the idea that houses would be built inside another, larger building is rather bizzare, however I imagine you get that effect in an apartment complex or a hotel.

Answer 4

A house is inside and outside.

Answer 5

It's because of the lawns. If you put all the houses inside and then did the mowing, you'd end up with grass cuttings all over the carpet, and if your wife is anything like mine, that's just asking for trouble. So a group of influential architects (all with nagging wives) made it a standard. You can always tell a house designed by a young single male architect because there's a hydrangea growing through the coffee table and the bookcase is covered in trailing plants.
Hope that clears this up. Where are those dried frog pills?

Answer 6

I think the question should have been written - Why are houses 'outside'?
There now, this is easier to answer because the emphasis is slightly different.....
The 'out' side of something necessarily implicates there is an
'in' side - we often refer to things being 'housed' in something....
therefore the inner iswhat is not exposed to the outer.... thereby being offered protection from the external .... (*)
if we talk about humans we speak of the inner persona v. the external persona - in other words a mask of some sort ... our inner selves are being protected by our outer personalities ...
If then, by implication, we expand this idea to represent all things internal, personal, private, secret, or simply exposure to external elements - then we automatically implicate the external as 'public', and therefore the internal as that which is protected from exposure to the 'out' side - whether that be elemental, psychological or metaphorical.
Therefore then, much depends on what the definition of 'house' is? ...'Your body is a temple [a form of 'house'].....' .....'Your home is your castle [a form of 'house']....' .....'the heart [the internal] of the matter [the external 'housing']......
Generally then our homes (I am presuming your mean our domiciles) are located on the 'out'side, in otherwords exposed to nature and the elements, and we are in the 'in' side, being protected, internally, from nature and the elements.

(*) Hence the concern and trepidation of 'wearing your heart on your sleeve....' (in other words exposing your 'inner' externally without the protection of the 'outer' 'housing; - thereby becoming vulnerable.....

Answer 7

The home is inside, the house is just the outer shell protecting the home from outside

Answer 8

Houses are outside because they can't very well be inside now can they?! ;)

Answer 9

.because we put plants in our homes it might be natures way of trying to get us back for it .or the houses are on the outside because the homes are on the in .

Answer 10

Isn't everything outside something except perhaps the nucleus of an atom?

Answer 11

Who says that they are?
Modern day construction involves building an inner and an outer shell, so technically speaking, as we live within the inner, houses are inside.
Get out of that!