With many young people going out less, we went out into Manchester to try and find out the reasons behind the dip in public activity.
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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. Today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people about beer, going out and young people.
00:07And the reason for that is we're five years on from lockdown now and one thing that we've learned is that it's massively impacted people's relationships with leaving the house, going out and with alcohol as well.
00:16With alcohol sales among young people being at a pretty much historic low. We want to know if people now stay in more than they think they would have done without Covid.
00:23Well, I don't go out much at all personally. I think it's quite expensive. I think for young people, it's really hard to be able to afford to go out in the first place, especially because if you're driving, you know, you've got to pay for a hotel and everything like that.
00:35It's a big, big deal. We cherish a lot of the time we spend together. I feel like that's when I go out with my friends, I feel like, you know, it's a lot of you missed it in lockdown.
00:46And subconsciously, that's what I feel like a lot of people feel like.
00:48Because it's like so expensive. It's cheaper to drink indoors. Well, yeah, that's kind of what we do. We like this. But we work in a bar as well. So we get stuff for free quite a lot.