When you get used to a place you stop observing it and start just passing by.
This is what happened to me in my home country. I got so much used to it that going to a place, meeting someone, doing errands was just moving from point A to point B with a specific objective to meet. I couldn't see any longer any of the beautiful things that were surrounding myself.
Then happened that I spent two long years far from home and when I went back I was overwhelmed by thousands of different stimulus.
Suddenly I realised that this faces, gestures, colors, landscapes are things that you can find only in Italy, they belong to Italians and are their deep essence at the same time.