Transit-Dependent Gateway Households
People on these blocks have long days that never get bad enough to mention, so nobody has ever asked about them.
Read on the street, not on a spreadsheet.
Most of the housing here dates from before 1980, and very little has gone up since, so the buildings are older than the households inside them and will likely outlast them too.
Healthcare and education account for more than half the jobs within reach of these blocks, and no other kind of work nearby comes close.
Somebody who treats the getting-there part of the day as something real rather than a detail.
You cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.
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Large households on dense blocks, in homes built for fewer people than now live in them, where company is easy to find and a door you can close is not.
On these roads most of the work within reach is the same kind of work, so neighbors already know what each other do for a living without ever having asked.
Homeowners on old blocks who earned good money without a degree, with the first person in the house to try college studying upstairs.