Tourists photograph your city’s mailboxes. Try seeing your own town like you just landed.

Familiarity edits out detail to save you effort. Once your surroundings are known, your mind stops rendering them, which is why a visitor can find your street interesting while you have not looked at it in years. The place did not get duller. Your processing of it got efficient.

Walk somewhere you know this week and deliberately look as if you had just arrived. Notice the building fronts, the signs, what the light does at that hour. It is a cheap way to feel like you live somewhere, and it works better than most trips.