^^^ Reminds me of that vaporware wave a few years back.
For me, the je ne sais quoi factor is the unique vibe that you get from a city that doesn’t call much attention to itself. Any city can be like that, depending how you encountered it and how much expectation and knowledge of it you had before going there.
As mentioned in the beginning, Montreal did have that effect on me the last time I went. It was a while after I was acquainted with the photo threads here and did not have much of a strong urge to prepare myself for the visit and heighten my expectations. I had close to no expectations. I just wanted to experience the city or ville as it was. I went into local neighborhoods that just had a vibe to them. The mix of European and North American influences was first experienced, not told beforehand.
Puebla, Mexico was the same. Never heard of it or was much aware of it before going and it just took me in.
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