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[quote=Anonymous]Some people love the familiar. They order the same meals at the same restaurants, month after month, year after year. To other people there is something a bit alluring about things that aren’t close by & familiar. Even if they are not objectively great, they can seem exotic, different, eye-catching, mysterious, unusual, or captivating in a way that the familiar cannot.

I read somewhere that it’s fairly rare that people who grew up on the same kibbutz in Israel end up married to each other. There is something about being in close proximity that often prevents the sort of excitement that the strange (clears throat) can produce.

Some proud graduates of in-state colleges probably think that taking their kids to visit their alma mater will help them get interested in it. It might. But it might make it seem too familiar to be interesting. And if a lot of their high school friends are going to attend that school, that too might make the school more attractive or it might make it seem ordinary & mundane.

People who have worked in the same place for a while, driven the same car for years, or been married to the same person for decades know what I mean. What some people find comfortable & sensible other people find ordinary & boring.
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