It's the same everywhere with some UK towns and cities getting it worse than others. You have summer to come; our summer is over. Things haven't really been that tough for us as the restrictions were largely lifted during our summer months and many of those unable to work were getting 80% of their salaries paid by the government. Of course there were also people, like the self employed, unable to work that haven't had much help but even all political parties seem to accept that public finances cannot be used to help everyone.