You know, I always felt it but struggled to describe. This is exactly how it feels. Commoditization is inevitable, but the loss of identity that comes with leaves the impression that every city is one of those old-west movie prop ghost towns.

The world is becoming such that anywhere is like everywhere and everywhere is like anywhere.

At least major western cities are turning into the same-same but different tourists.

> a little further from there a McDonald's

in my experience there's like 3 of them on every one of these big streets, puzzling how many McD's exist.

And these streets are always full