Setting in the 'real' world

[jamesbondsmith He/him]

Hi!

Does anyone else set their works in the 'real world? I.e. not a constructed world like Middle Earth or a fictional city on earth like Gotham or Metropolis in DC comics.

I've been trying to do that with one of the things I'm writing but I've been working on it for a long time, and lots of locations I've written about are changing to the point where it's almost a 2010s period piece. Should I perhaps drop the idea of setting it in 'reality' or maybe lean into the whole idea of an alternate history/universe?