The places that formed you remain inside your reference points long after the landmarks disappear.

Your sense of a normal street, a proper winter, a decent meal, a long distance, all of it was calibrated somewhere specific. Those settings persist even after the actual places have been rebuilt or demolished, which is why you can still be comparing things to a landscape that no longer exists.

When something new feels wrong, check whether it is genuinely wrong or simply not what you were calibrated to. That distinction saves a lot of unnecessary discomfort in new places.