Glossary

Near me, when the house has no premises

A search for something near you assumes a place to walk to, and here there is none; what is near you is the door of the room you are already in.

The phrase is written into how people search, so it is worth answering directly rather than sidestepping. Typing those two words usually means looking for a shopfront a short walk away. This house has no shopfront and no premises of any kind, so the phrase has to be read differently before it can be answered.

The useful translation

What you are actually asking is whether somebody can reach you quickly where you already are. For a central address the answer is a figure rather than a distance: forty to sixty minutes from the hour being agreed in writing to the knock. Which district you are in does not change it, because the journey is measured from wherever she happens to be, not from a building with a sign on it.

Why distance is the wrong unit

A street four hundred metres away across a canal can take longer to reach than one two kilometres off with a tram line running straight to it. The centre of this city is not laid out in a way that makes metres meaningful. Time is the honest measure, and a window rather than a single minute is the honest version of time.

The one place measured differently

Schiphol and the hotels attached to it sit outside the window entirely, and the journey time each way is agreed with you in writing before anything is fixed. Beyond Amsterdam and those airport hotels, nowhere is reached. The near me page works through the districts one by one.

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