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Local Reality Index

Community experience — not official guidance

The Local Reality Index reports how rough a step currently feels on a corridor — the frictions movers keep hitting, how much they disagree, and how recent the evidence is. It is community experience aggregated across independent reporters, never law, and it never overrides an official requirement.

Method

  1. Only rights-cleared signals are used: permitted community reports, licensed forum extracts, editor interviews.
  2. Independence counts reporters, never rows. One reporter filing twice counts once.
  3. A step is published only above the aggregation floor, inside a rolling 30-day window.
  4. At most three frictions per step, ordered by independent reports, with a disagreement line when localities differ.
  5. No individual Journey, document, appointment, or location ever appears — the index only ships counts and canonical friction labels.

Publication status

Held back — noindex · draft · 0 verified sources · not yet editor-verified

Aggregation floor of 5 independent reporters per step is not met from rights-cleared Experience Signals yet, so the index publishes its method and nothing else.

This page carries aggregate, first-party research only. No individual mover’s Journey, document, appointment, or location appears here.

Thresholds

  • Aggregation floor: 5 independent reporters per step before anything is published.
  • Window: the most recent 30 days, rolling.
  • At most 3 frictions per step, ordered by independent reports.
  • A Reality Gap level against a benchmark needs 8 independent reporters, and is set by fixed thresholds rather than by a model.

Community experience — not official guidance

When a step clears the floor, the index reads like weather: how many independent reporters, which frictions recur, and where cities disagree. It never states a requirement, never claims a fee, and never overrides an official source.

Privacy

The index only ever holds counts and canonical friction labels. A reporter is a rotating pseudonymous identifier used for independence counting alone, and free-text mover writing is never published.

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