Globilazation Sucks

Have you noticed that everything is getting to be the same? The same stores, the same restaurants, the same clothes? All of the sudden I realized I live in a beige world. From coast to coast, city to city, neighborhood to neighboorhood all is the same. When I have the chance to go shopping all the clothes in all the stores look exactly the same. As I drive home from work in the city to the suburbs I can't tell you the number of times I pass the same shopping center with the same stores, starbucks, etc. It is all so boring! Why did we do this? I guess being able to go to the same places no matter where you are does lessen the fear of the unknown, but at what cost. What will you have to talk about when you get home from vacation? "Hey, Chicago is so cool, their Gap is two stories instead of one and the Starbucks is painted brown inside instead of beige; it was like being in a different world!" Anyway, don't want to stand on this soapbox for too long, but if you happen to live somewhere that has some local color and flavor, support it, enjoy it, soon it will probably be torn down and a mini-mall put in its place.