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What distinguishes a house vs a home is that a home builds roots. Like a tree house. If you've lived somewhere and don't feel like you've actually placed down roots then you're not in a 'home'. You're in a Grand Central Terminal in a Big City trying to Get Somewhere.

I think a "Failed City" is one that fails to get you to "Your Destination". As a compensation mechanism most cities use marketing to become "The Destination". Then they don't actually have to deal with the responsibility of directing the movement of life energy.

They just have to grow and grow and grow, becoming a giant glass anti-entropy bucket. "There's (potentially) STUFF to do here. ™"

The glass house aesthetic is a Nexus aesthetic, not a Home aesthetic. It's the seeking of the journey, not a solace from the journey.

Why isn't there fear of lack of home? The most common reason is not having fully 'left the nest'. The wild and free seed is actually just an exploring root.

If you can think "I'll just go back home". Then why would you need another one? You can't have 2 homes. (Though you can have 200 houses)

You can't fully immerse yourself in a journey and come out the other side into a new reality (and new home) if you never truly leave. Death and distance used to be mechanism to force a journey. But constant connection and longer lifespans prevent these journeys.

Anytime we feel like we're just waiting to die... perhaps the shadow lurking there is that we're waiting for someone else to die.