We have metrics for everything else: the Dow Jones for economic health, the UV index for atmospheric danger, the Gini coefficient for inequality. But what measures the slow gravity of staying put?
Because a home should never become a horizon. homebound index
On a scale of 0 (free to come and go) to 1 (physically or psychologically unable to cross the threshold), where do you land? We have metrics for everything else: the Dow
But the true value of the Homebound Index is not in its height. It’s in its . the UV index for atmospheric danger
It rises with chronic illness, agoraphobia, a broken hip, a lack of transport, a neighborhood made dangerous by neglect. When the index hits 0.8, the front door becomes a museum artifact—beautiful to remember, impossible to exit.