Going to town

I was just reading an article by Les Wilkins, "The Price of a Coffee" (http://wilkisworld.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/sat-in-starbucks-today-for-second-bad.html?m=1), and I commented with my thought on the subject:

You should see it where I live, our town Center has 7 coffee shops all two minutes walk away from each other at the further point, dominated by Costa. Coffee shops are glum places to sit in these days, the highlight of a visit being sat next to a window full of people marching about shopping with what's left of their (heavily) taxed incomes, before buying heavily taxed goods, and you can tell they know that too, a trip to town is no longer the leisure it used to be, more of a reminder of just how much our government had destroyed the economy and shopping venue variety