Another phenomena that can creep up on well-traveled folks is "the curse of the traveller" (obviously not a technical term, but I've not heard another name for

Another phenomena that can creep up on well-traveled folks is "the curse of the traveller" (obviously not a technical term, but I've not heard another name for it). Essentially, you subconciously collect "likes" about each place where you spend a sufficient amount of time. The food in this place, the coffee shops somewhere else, a street market culture here, the women/men there. A language, the climate, pace of life and attitudes from other places. With time, the mind constructs its own personal Shangri-la (which contains _all_of these things) and you, explicitly and/or implicitly, spend the rest of your life dissatisfied with the delta on your actual experience. In practice, for me this has been more of an "ah... that's happening, heh" thing that I observe going on in the mind rather than a difficult-to-live-with curse. I'm curious, however, what the effects will look like another 10 or 20 years in. I suspect it could grow worse with age as we are able to travel and do less? That's hopefully just a matter of managing perspective, though.