I go to restaurants but still cook plenty of meals at home. I haven't gone to a movie theater since COVID but I did attend a mask required indoor concert last weekend.
It depends on people's personal financial situations. Some folks did better than others during COVID and have money to spend. Others are hurt by the high prices of gas and other stuff.
Higher interest rates, supply chain issues, and labor shortage will take a while to sort out. A lot of stuff for computer chips come from Russia and Ukraine. And everything that is transported uses oil. With more people vaccinated/boosted and less worried about COVID, some of the labor shortage jobs will get filled by people who need the income.
Financially I'm better off now than I was 4 years ago. But every single time America goes into an economic downturn, my natural born US citizenship turns into H1B job stealer super fast. When people are looking for someone to blame for things, they generally blame me first. Indians have a multi-century history of resilience and migrating around the world for jobs the locals don't want. It goes way back to the European colonizers and East India companies.
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