"Activities! Carnivals, parks, festivals, ect. Last time I went to a carnival it was $40 per person, more if you bought the ticket the day of. Renfaire here is over $60 for the entry fee. They were never cheap but they were affordable ways to interact with your local community and spend time with family/friends.
Now there isn’t really much you can do without a steep entry fee."
The rest of the world has cought up.
#16 Colleges used to teach students to perform complex work that was in high demand - like engineering, medicine/healthcare, and IT/computer science. Now they've added so many useless degrees that college graduates are unprepared to do complex jobs yet owe tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Government subsidized student loans just allows colleges to increase their tuition at will. College is mostly a scam now.
but ... but ... women's studies
...not in my country