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RE: This Odd Thing We Call Nostalgia... (Ulog No. 44)
"The path and evolution of overpopulated and overused inevitably seems to be a slow decline towards nothingness. When something is "good" lots of people want to be part of it, as a result of which it gradually becomes no good."
Absolutely true about charming or interesting rustic places I have been to in the past. A few people know about them, they tell a few others, those others post it or write about it - soon enough all that is left are plastic fantastic tourist traps where you experience more or less the same shit as everywhere else.
Oh well.
It certainly holds true of our small seaside city, which suffered the fate of being named in various "best small towns to live" articles... and 13 years after I arrived here, I only marginally recognize the place... at least the spirit of the place; the artists and creatives have largely been supplanted by wealthy retirees from from California...
Oh well, indeed...