Somebody important probably lived on a street near you. Most history happened in ordinary towns.

History gets filed under capitals and famous addresses, which leaves the impression that important things occur elsewhere. They mostly do not. The people who changed something were, beforehand, somebody walking to school on a street as unremarkable as yours. Where you are is not a place history skipped; it is a place whose history has not been written up.

Find out one thing that happened where you live, from a library, an older neighbor, or a plaque you have walked past. Ask who lived in your house before you. The ordinariness of the answer is the point.