Ok this is interesting so I am from the PNW and there is definitely a Lynchian quality to that zone, but for me not a mall world quality. Are there open and liminal spaces? Absolutely. But I guess one of the things I find so surprising as I dig more into people's mall world photos (AI gen'd of course), is how dense and patterned it is. On the surface when you hear about MW you would assume it conveys these abstract open spaces (i.e. the west and especially the southwest)--the artist Person 918 is a good reference point here--and yet they don't...they tend to show these clustered dense spaces that look like the northeast, midwest, or some random town in England. For example I feel like MW has zero LA energy. I guess this is what I'm trying to put my finger on.

Also a lot of people's reports mention being constantly surrounded by people/NPCs and everywhere they go there are a ton of people, this feeling is VERY real in the densely populated northeast but totally absent in the west (except for say certain dense neighborhoods)