tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post4812759692021060190..comments2024-03-27T08:39:28.807-06:00Comments on Wash Park Prophet: Outsourcing The HouseAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-10215078717632462832011-01-06T15:35:44.639-07:002011-01-06T15:35:44.639-07:00"Rather than having a home gym, people join n..."Rather than having a home gym, people join neighborhood health clubs or go to neighborhood recreation centers (incidentally, some even have showers that you can use when you have plumbing problems). Many homeowner's associations and condominium complexes have small community pools and exercise rooms."<br /><br />That's stretching the example to make your point to the breaking point -- you've turned it all the way around, in fact.<br /><br />While you listed many good examples of outsourcing, there are also many examples of insourcing. And one of the prime examples is the home gym replacing the membership-based gym (or YMCA of yore).<br /><br />Also, the hot tub is replacing the community recreational (i.e. non-lap-use) pool.<br /><br />And, of course, the home theater has replaced the movie theater.<br /><br />These trends are more pronounced in the suburbs where the cost per square footage is less.<br /><br />But the most pronounced insourcing affects everyone regardless of square footage -- the Internet has elimnated the need to run out and buy a newspaper or magazine, or go to the library, and now with social networking, even to some extent to go out and socialize.<br /><br />There have been great shifts in the uses of a home in the past century or two -- and not all strictly either "in" or "out" sourcing.Michael Malakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10007582156392845677noreply@blogger.com