For many of them, it also became an outlet to play outside of their tangled web of responsibilities as business owners, mothers, friends and partners.

Either The NYT wants you to believe every USonian owns a business, or they don't know what a wage worker is, or they're just playing up to their wealthy target audience. But its just so strange to not acknowledge that some ppl just have regular jobs.

The pic of the indoor half-pipe or whatever it is with a laundry machine at the top is crazy. So much going on there but it's admittedly cooler than whatever else ppl do with their mcmansions.