Plus the same tiring politics are found everywhere in the country, the same grey, oversized car-dependent infrastructure (outside of tiny, expensive, hip areas only in city centers), the same loud, obese grown adult men who dress like teenagers, the same cluster of corporate towers surrounded by an ocean of strip malls and copy-paste tract homes and McMansions (some exceptions here like NYC), the same obnoxiously large car dealership American flags.

I grew up within the American Bubble^TM in a 60s suburban tract house, not too aware of the outside world because society at a grand scale told me, "There is no need to care about other countries.. We're #1 anyway!" Crossing a state line as a kid felt like what I imagined crossing international boundaries would be like until I actually began to travel abroad. Over time, there was a positive correlation between my horizons expanding, and the country feeling increasingly the homogenized throughout.

We still have many cultural differences, but I 100% agree with you that corporatism has sucked much of it away, as if we sold ourselves out and made everything for sale here. Fuck a beautifully diverse, rich, and varied American landscape when you can plop billboards across most of it to advertise something... anything... everything. What you brought up really struck a chord with me, clearly.