Boring Settings - Try These Simple Tricks to Make Them Memorable 

I feel that if your settings are all super unique it draws from the fact that it’s a world. Sometimes you need that one cliche overused city dirty city to add to the grandeur of the super important settings. Though adding slight changes to personalize and add to your settings can really go a long way for even the smallest areas. your advice was amazing! Keep up the good work!

I like to research something historical, then change it to fit my world. It gives it a realistic feel, but still makes it different from other books.

ALSO: As in the bends (deep sea diving) divers have to go through a decompression process. *Similar when the miners return from mining they go through a decompression or purification process that restores their molecular, cellular or DNA to human/humanoid status.

If it isn't a realist novel then don't have a realist setting