>They just want our money for parking, lunch, ect

This drives me up the wall because so many restaurants collapsed with the pandemic and never got back on their feet. Now their storefronts are either sitting empty or have been replaced by some chain that will make it maybe a year before moving on. Nothing like deciding to get takeout for lunch and your choices are between an overworked and understaffed Starbucks, Panera, or Chipotle (if you're lucky, could be just a McDonald's or Popeyes) because the family-owned Korean restaurant and an independent cafe/bakery had to close.

And rather than invest in building public transit, the people cities want to gouge us for parking and add enough cars to make their downtowns virtually unlivable.

It's genuinely depressing.