I've felt this as well. Before the pandemic, I lived in a small apartment in an up-and-coming part of my city. Downstairs was a very nice small grocery store, cafe, and central Asian food restaurant. I took the bus to work each day, and life was good.

Now, post pandemic, the small grocery store downstairs closed, as did the cafe, and the restaurant is take-out only. The neighbourhood also suffered, with many lovely small businesses closing and crime becoming as rampant as it was a decade ago. The city also raised the bus fare ~20%. This was basically the perfect storm to drive me into a house rental, buy a cheap used car, and otherwise turn me into what I resented just a few years ago.

I think this is going to be a trend for many late-twenty-somethings in north america, the regression of optimistic urbanists to begrudged suburbanites.