How has your city or town center changed during the Corona crisis and inflation and even before (deindustrialization,shop closures,online shopping)?

There was less traffic during the time when k-12 students were at home and lots of people worked from home. Traffic is back to its normal (bad) status due to never ending construction in our growing city. Church attendance is almost back to normal as people realize that they need to be with others. Popular restaurants are doing well again, but those on the edge went out of business.

In the last 5 years things have changed so much. There's almost no small businesses. They all got gobbled up during COVID. If you can't use the internet for purchases you are shit out of luck. Now they are pushing for a federal crypto currency. What happens to the hundreds of thousands with no credit cards or bank account? Do they just round those people up because they are not good for society. Would the people in Red States even care if a Governor like DeSantis made homeless people disappear?

Lots of store/restaurant closures or they’ve changed their hours and close early, lots more homeless, house prices are disgusting. I’m moving out of here!

First two months were crazy and every one stayed at home. After that no one cared. Strangely, the damaged was minimum compared to rest of the world.

It's a bit split... More low end shops but strangely also more very high end... Some people are still making a lot of money

Empty shopfronts, more homeless, increasing garbage on the streets. I'm just waiting for the gang activity to start, because sooner or later they are going to have to reduce public services at around the same time property values drop and that's when drug use picks up

My city hardly stopped anything and as far as we are concerned it has been over for more than 2 years.
We have grown exponentially, new business, apartments and resturants every where.
I think that more people moved here looking for work after COVID. A few local long time bars and resturants shut down in the middle of the pandemic and that was sad but thats about it. Also people use curbside and delivery even more because they got used to it.