A location test
No Third Place
Home is one place. Work is the second. The third is everywhere else you used to be able to go without an invitation, a reservation, or a reason.
Twelve questions about your week, not your feelings. This one is about geography.
The 12 questions
- Name a place you went this month that wasn't home, work, or someone's house.
- If you were free at 3pm on a Saturday with no money to spend, where would you go?
- How much of your socialising happens through a screen?
- Is there anywhere people recognise you without you having booked or paid?
- When did you last talk to someone you didn't already know?
- Do your plans need to be arranged in advance?
- How much does going somewhere cost you before you've done anything?
- Has your partner or closest person become your main source of company?
- What happened to the places you used to go?
- How do you feel on a day your phone says you spoke to plenty of people?
- If you stopped going to work tomorrow, how many people would you still see?
- Gut check — what do you think you're actually short of?