Originally Posted by
MichaelBrighton
That's not how I read it. There are less than a handful of posts that refer to being outside of the domestic sphere ("Mit meinen Freundinnen im Rosencafé sitzen", "Mit meinen Freunden bei Sonnenuntergang am Rhein liegen"). All the others talk about being in the home or garden, either alone or with friends.
I think one should trust those with native-speaker intuitions here...