Zachary
@zachishere.bsky.social
📍 Kansas City, MO
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🚔 Emergency 911 Police Dispatcher
📸 Occasional Photographer
⚽️ Sporting Kansas City Supporter
🌎 If lost please return.
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A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
![Excerpt reads: "Prioritize your neighborhood
Neighborhoods drive our happiness (or unhappiness) more than we think.
When Lina Martinez, director of POLIS, the Center for Wellbeing Studies at Universidad Icesi in Colombia, studied the happiness of households in the city of Cali, she couldn’t find much difference between poorer and richer areas. “Their happiness is pretty much the same,” she said. But that changed when she isolated neighborhood conditions, such as access to transit, health care and parks. “The conditions of the neighborhood affect happiness,” she said. “I can’t link that to the space where [people] live.”
That aligns with findings from a 2023 study of the Vancouver metro area: Researchers found no significant differences in well-being between people living in single detached homes, duplexes, townhouses, laneway houses and apartment buildings (basement units smaller than 300 square feet were the only negative exception). What did people say they missed most in their neighborhood? Affordability, proximity to family and friends, and a sense of community. Home design was eighth on the list."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreicapfknasylzk2lqzaxxeb5mchgnru75obggn45dusda6j5zogvuu@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 4:29 AM
A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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🚨 Breaking: NYC no more
affordable than it was 53 minutes ago. An exclusive
on how it all went wrong for Mamdani.
affordable than it was 53 minutes ago. An exclusive
on how it all went wrong for Mamdani.
As Zohran Mamdani became the mayor of New York City at a small ceremony shortly after midnight Thursday, the clock started ticking on his pledges to make the city more affordable.
Mamdani Takes Office and Must Now Try to Deliver on His Boldest Promises
The clock is ticking on the new mayor’s pledges to make New York City more affordable, including expanded child care and free buses.
on.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:52 AM
🚨 Breaking: NYC no more
affordable than it was 53 minutes ago. An exclusive
on how it all went wrong for Mamdani.
affordable than it was 53 minutes ago. An exclusive
on how it all went wrong for Mamdani.
Enjoying my Saturday morning at Spokes like normal but today I am looking at the most anxiety ridden Christmas decoration of all time. Is this guy doing ok? 😬
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Enjoying my Saturday morning at Spokes like normal but today I am looking at the most anxiety ridden Christmas decoration of all time. Is this guy doing ok? 😬
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To thine own self please be fr
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
To thine own self please be fr
Why are you awake right now?
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Why are you awake right now?
I am everywhere and nowhere
Stop 6: Strange Days
This was traditionally a walking tour, but a quick streetcar ride will have to do, since Kansas City is less brewery dense than Denver. Saw @zachishere.bsky.social on the way.
Day of dark beers is coming to a close
#blackbeerfriday
This was traditionally a walking tour, but a quick streetcar ride will have to do, since Kansas City is less brewery dense than Denver. Saw @zachishere.bsky.social on the way.
Day of dark beers is coming to a close
#blackbeerfriday
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I am everywhere and nowhere
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Vancouver Whitecaps coach Jesper Sorensen on Thomas Müller: "The good thing about Thomas is that he can affect things in so many ways, and he doesn't have to play like a brilliant player to affect his teammates and his team positively.... it's not that we rely on magic, but we rely on coherence"
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Vancouver Whitecaps coach Jesper Sorensen on Thomas Müller: "The good thing about Thomas is that he can affect things in so many ways, and he doesn't have to play like a brilliant player to affect his teammates and his team positively.... it's not that we rely on magic, but we rely on coherence"
Have a great day folks.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Have a great day folks.
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Shoutout to everyone working on Thanksgiving.💗
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Shoutout to everyone working on Thanksgiving.💗
The surest sign of my self loathing has to be the fact that I am currently at the grocery store the night before thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The surest sign of my self loathing has to be the fact that I am currently at the grocery store the night before thanksgiving
Listening to @justinmeyerkc.bsky.social talk all things Kansas City Airport on NPR right now.
Lots of good insights about holiday travel.
✈️
Lots of good insights about holiday travel.
✈️
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Listening to @justinmeyerkc.bsky.social talk all things Kansas City Airport on NPR right now.
Lots of good insights about holiday travel.
✈️
Lots of good insights about holiday travel.
✈️
Not sure exactly what’s up here on the streetcar line.
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Not sure exactly what’s up here on the streetcar line.
This was a journey 30 years ago and still is today.
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
This was a journey 30 years ago and still is today.
All time classic.
By defeating LAFC in penalty kicks tonight, Vancouver Whitecaps FC has reached an Audi MLS Cup Playoffs Conference Final for the first time in club history.
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
All time classic.
Whitecaps deserve to move on hope they do
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Whitecaps deserve to move on hope they do
Though this was funny not a position you want to be in as a defender.
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Though this was funny not a position you want to be in as a defender.
Just a terrible result and sequence of events.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just a terrible result and sequence of events.
Having some coffee at my spot while watching some soccer while November Rain inexplicably plays overhead.
Doesn’t get much better.
Doesn’t get much better.
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Having some coffee at my spot while watching some soccer while November Rain inexplicably plays overhead.
Doesn’t get much better.
Doesn’t get much better.
Dortmund up 2-0 really pouncing on their opportunities this morning
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Dortmund up 2-0 really pouncing on their opportunities this morning