When did going to the pub become a luxury?

We’re asking people around Cardiff if going to the pub has become too much of a luxury for people.

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00:00Yeah, I mean, obviously with, like, cost of living prices and, like, prices are going up.

00:06Yeah, I wish I'd be able to go out on a night out, you know what I mean?

00:10But, yeah, it's a once a month thing, if that, you know?

00:13No, I can definitely see that, especially going out a lot less often.

00:16Drinks are far more expensive than they were a couple of years back.

00:19And, you know, you just don't feel like going out and spending all that money, you know,

00:23that you're maybe saving up to buy something.

00:25So, it's definitely feeling a bit more of a luxury than it is,

00:28as, like, you know, just something you can go and spend time out with your friends,

00:31like, a couple of times a week, like you said.

00:33Yeah, I mean, literally, my local, gone from, what, like, two quid a pint?

00:38To now it's, like, four.

00:40What am I, like, the whole point of a student life, you know,

00:43the idealised life doesn't exist anymore.

00:46That is not something that is attainable for the mass population of students.

00:49But I also think that the drinking culture's changed as well.

00:53I mean, I personally don't drink, and I know that a lot of students still do,

00:57but I feel like it's not as common anymore.