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1. "Chicken wings!!! Used to beryllium the cheapest chopped of the chickenhearted (except for chickenhearted livers, which are going up, BTW), but past that barroom successful Buffalo, NY, had to marque them and now, they are outrageous!"
2. "Craigslist and Facebook marketplace. When you're trying to bargain oregon merchantability thing now, you person to wade done tons of scammers, flakes, and lowballers. Almost each conveyance is simply a reconditioned rubric and a scam. And then, determination are the radical who ever ask, 'Is this available?' and past ne'er accidental thing after."
3. "Streaming. Over-saturated and each streamers person go these obnoxious, entitled radical who bash thing but clip workplace and effort to get their viewers to spot them arsenic gods who tin bash nary wrong."
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4. "Food transportation services. It's unspeakable now, but erstwhile I archetypal utilized it galore years ago, you'd get fast, blistery nutrient for a reasonably tiny other cost. Now, it's conscionable a dumpster occurrence of terrible, due to the fact that truthful galore radical usage it, and they person (relatively) fewer drivers each trying to instrumentality arsenic galore orders arsenic they tin (because the wage is bad), starring to astir everyone's nutrient being cold/late."
5. "Beaches and exotic land retreats. I conscionable spent a twelvemonth surviving mostly successful Southeast Asia, and it's truly bittersweet to see. People travel for the pristine beauty, and arsenic it becomes popular, the country develops to conscionable demand, attracting much visitors — and progressively those who are little respectful of the area, its people, and the environment. So, the precise quality they travel to spot is spoiled. Then, eventually, the much discerning customers volition determination connected to a caller portion of pristine land, but the aged tract conscionable spirals down further and doesn't get a accidental to recover."
"Thus, it creates a perpetual spiral of encroachment and despoilment of quality spots."
6. "I cod dolls, immoderate vintage, immoderate antique. It utilized to beryllium a fun, affordable pastime to find a doll and/or apparel for them. Now, radical person go rabid implicit them. A doll that utilized to merchantability for $7 is present $157. Shoes outgo much than mine. Some apparel are much than I ever walk connected my own, but tiny. Bidding connected dolls often reaches unbelievable prices, adjacent for dolls successful atrocious condition. Guess I'll conscionable person to bask what I've got."
7. "The full thrift store overpricing is simply a thing. Even gait income person started jumping connected that train. We had a community-wide gait merchantability past weekend. Many items were mode high, considering they were idiosyncratic else's utilized stuff. And conscionable FYI: I went to 1 of my favourite thrift stores that sells immoderate upscale utilized items. One pillow was $39. The Christmas vino glasses that Arby's sold for $1 each were $10 each. I'm not definite who they are selling to. It's definite not me. It makes maine sad."
8. "Formula 1. It's large that determination are truthful galore caller fans, but going to a contention is present unreasonable for astir of us. It's ever been a athletics for the wealthy. At slightest successful the past, the fans didn't person to be. I miss going with my dada and my brothers."
9. "Different kinds of food and seafood!!! You utilized to beryllium capable to bargain lobster tails, orangish roughy, and perch highly cheaply (believe it oregon not). But now, each 'cheap' cuts, oregon what we utilized to get successful fish, are outrageously priced!!!"
—Anonymous
10. "In my neighborhood, pickleball. They added pickleball nets to a fewer of the tennis courts adjacent to a radical of houses. Technically, lone vicinity residents are allowed to person keys to the courts, but they tin bring guests. Some rabid pickleball players decided to adhd it to a nationalist preservation tract and usage 1 of the houses arsenic the address. Non-residents were holding tournaments determination and causing large disruptions for the adjacent neighbors astatine each hours. They were blocking sidewalks and driveways with their cars and crossing done yards to entree the courts. It was a full mess."
"So the HOA removed the nets and disallowed pickleball for everyone. Now the rabid pickleball players are each ticked due to the fact that their escaped courts are gone, and the remainder of america are ticked astatine them due to the fact that they ruined it for the remainder of us. Good times."
11. "I heavy knock restaurants that person taken affordable Mexican nutrient similar fajitas and tacos and gentrified them. Then charging chaotic amounts of wealth due to the fact that it's 'clean' oregon 'vegan.' Respect the civilization oregon permission it alone."
12. "Services similar Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify. What acceptable them isolated from TV portion I was increasing up was that you paid a subscription and had nary ads, and you could besides rewatch contented each the time. Now, it's precisely arsenic TV was before: you wage a subscription, determination are inactive ads (unless you wage an adjacent higher subscription), and not each contented is available; determination are definite movies that you person to rent to ticker them for 48 hours portion you enactment subscribed. It makes nary consciousness astatine all."
13. "Jeeps. I nary longer ain one, but years ago, they were a comparatively uncommon show successful my Midwest area. Primarily, radical who really utilized them arsenic intended (off-pavement) were the ones who owned them. Now, you can't thrust done the suburbs without heavy modded ones successful astir each driveway — and nary of them person adjacent acceptable a instrumentality connected dirt."
"People presume I deed trails each play with my Bronco due to the fact that it's ever got a furniture of mud. Nah, I don't — but excavation isn't a store princess astatine least."
14. "Facebook. Now, radical person to station astir each clip they person a bowel movement. TMI."
—Anonymous
15. "Taking a day to a shot crippled utilized to beryllium amusive and economical. Now, nary much summons bureau (buy online done a broker), and you wage their surcharge, parking (minimum $30), and immoderate nutrient oregon refreshments. $250 for a day astatine a shot game. Football game…forget it!"
—Anonymous, 65, Texas
16. "Skirt steak. That worldly utilized to beryllium cheaper than crushed beef. And I mean, erstwhile crushed beef was cheaper than raising a child. Now, a 1-pound chopped of skirt steak is astir $15, and it's not adjacent trimmed properly, truthful by the clip you chopped disconnected each of the junk, you've got hardly immoderate left."
—Anonymous, 43, California
17. "Ground turkey. It utilized to beryllium a inexpensive substitute for crushed beef for america radical connected a constricted income. That is, until it got heavy promoted arsenic 'healthier' than beef, and it seemed similar the terms tripled overnight."
—Anonymous, 68, Indiana
18. "Everything getting a live-action remake. Movies are stale arsenic hellhole now."
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