[Hondaracer]

"The next Main Street"

Main Street is dieing imo.. the cost of living and rents there are decimating the area and it feels empty compared to just a few years ago.

3 different businesses from main have closed up shop and moved to Hastings sunrise now whom I've spoke with, all citing basically the exact same thing, prices are so high there now that they have no clientele and it's impossible to make a buck when rent cuts that deeply into your margins. I beleive another business, a new barber, is moving from main to around Hastings and Nanaimo in the next few weeks as well.

Burrit bro's, a Main Street institution and huge tenant for space has left after 40 somthing years, and there's a tonne of vacant businesses up and down main.

Few years ago I thought that's where I wanted to be, worked out well that my current spot is seemingly where people are turning to for dem trends