I remember just a few months ago bars and clubs being super packed and now there’s hardly anybody at them. What’s going on?
Edit: I’m in the Los Angeles area
Nobody has money to burn.
Or snort.
I mean, I could go to a bar and get a $10 drink.
Or, I could have a whole-ass $11 bottle of wine, at home, in the quiet, with my dogs and a damn good book.
…Might help to mention what hemisphere you’re in, or continent you’re on? Or country? Or city?
The reason for your local change in nightlife could be anything from a wide, wide range of reasons, almost all of which depend heavily on where you are.
Let’s not be like the uncouth Defaultist Americans that assume everybody in the world lives where they do. Let’s be better, and let’s provide a location when it’s key info.
Obviously from the US because they think every human is from the US.
Americans legit think the internet ends at their borders. Even relatively modern places like Bluesky are so infuriating for not understanding how internet works.
Many, many years ago, Pizza Hut announced ordering pizza online if one of their restaurants is within a certain range. We checked, we were in range, and ordered our pizzas.
Guess what? No pizza. We sent a mail, and we got a totally confused answer. Yes, that offer was for US based orders only (no mentioning of this on the web site, we had checked!). How the heck could we have internet outside the US? Our answer, that the web was actually developed in Europe confused him even more.
We got the offer that they would send us the order free of charge once they expanded the service to our place. So far, no pizza, even though they offer this service for a few years now…
Sometimes I only find out that something only gets delivered to the US when I get to the checkout stage where you enter the adress and there is no option for countries.
It’s not that hard to put this information on your website.
Or they only offer payment through PayPal, which I don’t do. But yes, putting this on the web site quite early would not hurt,
Bloody US Defaultism 😒
Yeah they be from somewhere outside the united states like Hawaii
Sooooo fucking on point. If you arent a sports fan in my area you would be so curious of the same question depending on time of year or success of season. Super anecdotal but just 1 example of tons and tons of variables that effect the bar/restaurant/hospitality industry
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Los Angeles area
Lmfao I was hoping so much it would be not only a major US city but one of the largest culturally.
Internet never lets me down
You’re welcome
Nailed it.
It’s a financial thing. There’s a K shaped economy, with no middle class, and the lower class dealt with inflation for a while with credit card debt… and… those credit cards are filled up.
Middle class is still working class.
Stop doing this… its people vs the ultra wealthy… unless your less than 100 people your all the fucking same… they want people to feel divided, we are not… its rich assholes who are so morrally corupt and evil vs the rest of us…
We really are just one agreement away from rolling these fuckers
I imagine there’s a lot less tourists since ICE started showing up in big numbers in LA. The presence of a large oppressice force also makes some question whether they want to go out or not, especially those close to the people who have been kidnapped.
I mean here in Canada why would I go to a bar and spend like $12 on a single pint of beer when I can go to the store and pay the same amount and get like 6 pints?
Back in my 20’s when I could go to the bar and pay $1.50 for a pint of PBR, sure it made sense. it was cheaper and i was with friends. I could get drunk on the cheap and have a good time.
now? there’s no point. Cheap Dive bars (the ones I used to frequent) are going the way of the buffalo and in my city there’s literally like only one left out of the dozens I used to go to all the time. I’m not paying over $10 for a single beer. Plus the patrons that still do go to bars are crap. they all would rather be on their phones then have a conversation at the bar.
so to sum up A. it’s more expensive and B. younger generations killed the vibe.
Do you live in a college town?
Fewer tourists from other nations would be a contributing factor. ICE in general may be more. Perhaps economy isn’t as great as our Fuhrer wants us to think.
Tourism would be a thing, yeah.
Who in their right minds would go visit the US, knowing full well you might end up in a torture prison for a year just because you wanted to have a week of fun in the US?
People just spent a few hundred dollars taking their families to watch the 2 biggest movies of the summer and now in 2 weeks the kids return to school and need supplies. Money is tight right now and priorities.
Which movies?
Superman and Fantastic 4
Ah. Fair enough. The last big budget film I saw in theaters was endgame. During the late stage of it’s original run.
I think I saw a Neil Breen movie in one since.
In addition to Summer Student Season, I hear there’s a lot of ICE pouring through LA this year.
You gotta watch out for that dangerous black ice, it’s transparent and sneaky
That black ice creeping into our neighborhoods, making the streets unsafe!
I think the effects of tariffs and unemployment and everything are starting to be felt.
I’ve seen a small decline in busy days at local bars or restaurants. I also live near areas that depend on summer tourism, and that is way down.
Thing is, as that goes down, so do the revenues/employees. As that happens, places close or cut employees.
The climbing gym is fucking packed though
of course they are all caught in the traffic jam at the Gotthard tunnel
In addition to the economy thing that everyone else has already pointed out (and is totally valid)
I think it’s worth pointing out that in the northern hemisphere it’s summer right now, so if that’s where you’re located there’s a lot of people going on vacations and having parties right now.
My social circles aren’t exactly rolling in it, but at any given time over the summer, there’s still at least a couple people I know are the beach, camping, having a BBQ or bonfire, or hanging out at a pool somewhere on their downtime when they might have been at a bar or something otherwise.
If you live in a touristy area, yeah, that’s the economy, bars should be booming there.
I remember a couple years ago on a whim a couple of friends and I decided to go to a bar that’s usually packed with a line well out the door of people waiting to get it. But it just happened to be a holiday weekend so lots of people had other plans, and we got in no problem.
Probably depends on the area, but I’m in a high COL work-focused one and I’ve been noticing people going on their phones more these days. Even the bartenders. It’s kinda sad.
Yeah, man, I get the feeling you’re talking about. There’s stuff to talk about, but no one wants to talk about it anymore. But it’s hard not to think about that shit though…
No one wants some 20 year old jackass taping them for TikTok clout.
OP is asking about a change they noticed in the last few months. This has not changed in the last few months.
