Like I cannot emphasize enough how much my historical sense turns on home architecture. Like, living in Philly-farm Pennsylvania you would basically see examples from the whole stretch back to colonial days driving around, by 8th grade I was proud of my ability to identify any local house’s date of construction by decade (back to the 1910s, and at least half-century before that), I honestly don’t know how I picked that up, I didn’t specifically study it until college (the influence of Cornell’s Architecture School – uniquely, 5-year undergrad and honestly kinda designy vs. just habitable buildings – did shine through, just like how the Human Ecology [formerly “Home Ec”] college also supported women’s and especially fashion history, technically part of the SUNY system had strong historical backing from their textiles program which had long ago left home production to be a Manhattan garment industry feeder)

Anyway I’ve realized that the broader multi-neighborhood area I’m now in very strongly evokes feelings of the parts of my hometown that were built between the 1950s and the 1970s and this is basically like a geomancer suddenly realizing he lives in the exact kind of terrain he specializes in