Space was bought with hours on the road. Created by suburbs: the commute is the price of the bedroom.
This is a tolerated. A problem people have quietly learned to live around. The most interesting category, because tolerance means nobody has solved it well enough to be noticed. It is felt by the parent, continuously, and rates 3 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Scarce time.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Suburban housing development — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Remote and hybrid work and Minivans and family SUVs
Its neighbourhood
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionSpace was bought with hours on the road
- SolutionSuburban housing development
- FrictionThe home that fit two does not fit three
- Life phaseParenthood
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inScarce time
- Rooted inShelter
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.