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This is a trend that has been steadily continuing for at least 20 years https://www.statista.com/statistics/310723/total-number-of-pubs-in-the-united-kingdom/

This is a trend that has been steadily continuing for at least 20 years https://www.statista.com/statistics/310723/total-number-of-pubs-in-the-united-kingdom/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/310723/total-number-of-p... Imho alcohol is historically way too prominent in UK culture so its a relief to learn that people are finally finding something else to do with their time edit: 30 year trend in this paper: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8591/CBP-8591.pdf https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-...

lloydatkinson 4y ago
I thought exactly the same as someone from the UK as well. Far too much literal dependency on alcohol and football.
- spiralx 4y ago
  Yeah, part of the issue is that historically we were wildly over-saturated with pubs due to the drinking culture, and as that's changed (along with the related issue of taxes on alcohol having increased a lot) there's just far less demand for somewhere to drink. My parents used to occasionally visit a village near them in Essex famous for having a dozen pubs along the tiny high street... crazy. This is the country that upon being introduced to spirits for the first time promptly went into an alcoholic frenzy where people drunk themselves to death in large numbers. It is strange that England is the only country I can think of without any national spirits of its own though...