Driving into the ever growing city, Surrey as well as Vancouver , with the pissed off drivers , who are all out to get where they are going is fast as they can isn't as fun as it use to be. Finding parking, pfffft, I just go to a pay lot not , like PAC center , or the Gas Town parkade and walk to where I've got to now . At the risk of sounding paranoid naaa it is a reality, ...I do not want to come back and find my Van broken into AGAIN! 
Nope, going to see the one band I really want to see and having to wait'n  through 3 or 4 shitty ones , while I get bored and annoyed , isn't as fun as it used to be.I drink when I get bored . 
Having one too many beers, drinking coffee and trying to find a place to eat before drive home , it not as fun as it used to be either. Wandering back to the parking lot and wondering if I am going to get jump, is no thrill either. 
Driving home , I am tired sweaty , annoyed and on alert for drunk drivers and idiots who are staggering around and some who run out in front of me . East Van, Gas Town , Powell Street ,Hastings and Main and around there , and the Grandville Street area , are a good places for that sort of behavior . Aaaad, yhaaa , is I am leaving the city and getting on the Freeway , is it far far busier then it use to be , even at 2 2or 3 am. I am on the alert for drunks and cops and asshole pissed off driver. If I am lucky , it is not pissing down with rain,foggy or at this time of year once in a while snowing , that make the drive back even more fun. White knuckling it , slapping myself in the face , driving with the drivers side window rolled down , been there done that. Don't like it . I be just really weird to enjoy it too .

Yes. and the public transport out this way , at night sucks !!!!!!!!!!!! I have been stuck at Surrey Central, once or twice or just one too many times, waiting for a bus that never comes , surrounded by drunks and junkies and crackers , people who would if they could beat my ass and rob me . I've taken a cab home back from there and over 20 or more  bucks later , to say the least I am fak'n mad as hell . 

 Getting back into the area I live is not a ton-o-fun either. There is always some dick-head tailing gating me. Yah, at 2 or 3 am , yhaa and do ,slam on my brakes and yell at who ever it is to get their head out of my ass, as well as their own . 
I am just far more selective as to when and when I go now, and I just do not have the money , or as much interest as I use to, to go through all the to see some band play or what ever . I am sure , I am not the only one who feels  that way as well , or agree with me . I do think there could and maybe  are a few places to play out this way , I and I am look'n for places to see live music .The few  I have found are most often packed and for the most part a rip-off as far the price of a drink goes. 

Yes, at the risk of seeming anti social and some what sedentary , in order to avoid a hassle.......................... .these days, I think I'd rather stay at home .