The contrariness of it: it was the detached middle-class who took their say in 2011, and they lumped for trickle-down misery.
After a year of unemployment, Jay is going spare in a boxy detached house in the middle of the suburban sprawl, which he shares with his Swedish-born wife, Shel (MyAnna Buring), and their young son.
But they increasingly co-exist with hints of a nascent middle class: detached houses with gardens and pools, one of southern Africa's biggest shopping malls, a four-star hotel and conference centre, a multiplex cinema, an annual wine festival and, in May, the inaugural Soweto fashion week.
Mick is just a pathetic pest, but Sully is a potentially engaging portrait of Gen X in middle age: apathetic, detached, resigned to small satisfactions.
Faded snapshots from box Brownies show the just-built, semi-detached homes of an aspirant middle class, alongside the cramped row houses of its forebears.
The only exception was that prior to the irradiation, instead of leaf halves, a middle, narrow part of the detached leaf (perpendicular to the vasculature) was covered with black paper.
There's a landscaped yard in the front, a swimming pool and detached yoga studio out back, and in the middle, a private courtyard anchored by an olive tree.
The suburbs are dominated by white middle- and high-income families living in detached houses, though the income spread in the suburbs has increased, and the inner suburbs are beginning to resemble the city's outer boroughs.
By contrast, the study's younger and middle-aged participants were better at using "detached appraisal" to tune out and divert attention away from the unpleasant films.
In the meantime I thought I had better inform the neighbours – after all, a middle class cul-de-sac of nine identical detached homes is not typical "house share" territory.
Inner and middle suburbs have especially acute shortfalls of semi-detached homes such as units, townhouses, terraces and flats in low-rise buildings.
