On the first visit to the Main St of my city I was struck by how much it resembled a movie set. The buildings were too bright and clean. The shop fronts looked fake. Smooth square buildings confidently asserting their business.
This was not seeing the unfamiliar as unexpected, but rather, seeing the familiar and not expecting it. Things I had seen before on TV but dismissed as totally unrealistic: too clichéd, too lacking in irony to actually be real. But no, that is how it is over here.
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