Every city has defining features: Paris has those flawless Haussmanian façades, New-York has those industrial-age, smoke-covered brick buildings, Montreal has those iron spiral staircases (that don't make any sense in a northern climate because in the winter, those stairs covered in ice are broken legs waiting to happen)...
Wooden houses in Moncton have those glass-covered verandas (see frame two) that are great places to hang out in the summer, there is always an old couch lying in there and in the winter, those places provide some sort of shelter from the rain and snow while not technically being part of the house so smokers usually go smoke in there...so I informally call them "smoke dens".
Those verandas are found on old houses built in the late 19th or early 20th century...and those houses are being demolished at an alarming rate around Moncton.
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