For years, my college friends, dispersed across the U.S., have been locked in an iMessage chain about how to realize our dream of living closer to one another. We’ve mapped out our must-haves: affordable housing, access to good schools, walking distance to yoga, within earshot of nature. But coordinating careers, family commitments, and financing logistics was an organizational nightmare.
Predictably, the text chain fizzled out, only to reignite last month, when the U.S. surgeon general issued a warning about isolated parents losing their minds.
Then I got wind of a potential solution to our isolation nightmare: Hot Friend Compounds…