Everything from nightlife to the quality of products is now different.
“A lot of smaller businesses completely died because of it.”
lycos94
“The year before, I considered opening a little pizza restaurant and venue bar.
I did a lot of work selling pizzas and putting on shows as events in other venues.
I asked around: Should I open my pizza place or buy a home?
Ended up being a godsend.
The rest of my life would have been ruined.”
doctorctrl
2.
And by weekends I mean Friday/Saturday."
vinnybawbaw
“Yes, my area is a ghost town at night, even on the weekends.
ivxxbb
3.
“My sense of time.
pizza_whore_26
“Yeah, 2020 and 2021 are big blobs to me.
I mix them up constantly.
Arashirk
4.
“BurtRebus
5.
“The pandemic has ruined many social relationships and human connection more than we realize.”
GonzalezrMY20k4
“I’m still trying to get friendships back to the same regular hang-out amount.
Texts and online games just arent the same.”
LegacyLemur
6.
We will never see 2018 prices ever again.
Except on TVs and other shit you dont need.”
5x4j7h3
7.“Availability.
Im a night owl and used to grocery shop at 2 a.m. Just me and my headphones.
It was glorious.”
I’m talking 9 or 10 pm on a Saturday.
It’s not a tragedy, but it’s annoying.”
NYArtFan1
8.
“My social battery.
Id rather stay home.”
witerawy
I’ll go most workdays without talking.
It gives you a kind of brain fog that’s hard to shake off after work.
Crown_Writes
9.“Movies.
People just wait for them to be on streaming these days.”
hnelsontracey
10.
“Basically, every form of the performing arts is in trouble.
I was a touring comic before the pandemic.
It’s not very well known, but I made a living.
I have been able to eke out a bit of an existence, but the possibilities are really dwindling.
So many of my colleagues have already stopped.
It’s not for lack of talent or popularity.
The operating environment of the industry has fundamentally changed.
I have always prided myself on my resilience.
I built an incredibly unlikely career by slogging it out.
But even for me, it’s now impossibly difficult.”
stranger_noises
“I could be wrong, but I think people have shifted their entertainment sources.
StopWatchingThisShow
11.“Healthcare.
The industry and the people in it who saw a lot of preventable dying and sickness are broken.
Its not the same as it was before, and it probably wont ever be.”
StefanTheNurse
“This is what hardly ever gets mentioned.
I know several in the field who have left, including me, because the burnout was so strong.
All while watching the reality of it play out before them, being responsible for helping those afflicted.
I hope I never have to go back.”
cooljeopardyson
12.
“The cost of repairing and replacing vehicles.
tmps1993
“This is especially true of collision repair.
It can take months now.”
lespaulstrat2
13.
“Organic dating.”
Nutsnboldt
“Dating period.
Womp_ratt
14.
“Faith in science and medicine for a lot of people.”
Didntlikedefaultname
“It’s more faith in facts in general.
If the truth upsets them, they decide to go with an alternative.
Reasoning with many people now is like trying to have a debate with a Roomba.”
nocolon
15.
“Businesses' cleanliness and hours.
Go to some local box store, walk around, and see just how trashy it looks now.
Clothes on the floor, because they don’t have enough staff to pick up the mess.
It’s like they’re in a perpetual state of closing down.”
I honestly thought I had walked into an abandoned, looted, and vandalized store.
SterlingLevel
16.
“I feel like the stuff I do for money has come to feel so f’ing meaningless.
Everything’s so big a business needs 25 other businesses to survive.
We’ve created millions of problems to sell made-up solutions.
I don’t think I’m alone in this?”
WesternUnusual2713
“You’re not alone.
The world certainly feels more corporatized than before.
“matrix_man
17.
“Tipping culture expanded, tip expectations went up, and never came back down.”
I was still prompted to tip who am I tipping and why?!”
_jjkase
18.And lastly, “A lot of people’s basic manners.”
LucyVialli
“The ‘social contract.’
For example just being decent to one another.
Thats been on decline, but post-pandemic it has not recovered.
Things such as respecting public spaces or others is gone for the most part.
It feels like no one cares anymore and selfishness rules.”
CabbageStockExchange
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