I live in a fairly conservative city.
There are only a small number of liquor licenses available per capita in this area plus all of them have long since been handed out to existing companies.
If somebody wanted to open a nightclub, they’d have a better option trying to sell someone land in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It was 1 of the worst locations to grow up as a kid back in the 1990s. If I thought it was bad nowadays, I had no idea back when I was a kid. The town council was so drastic that they banned skateboarding right around the time I started to ride myself. The people I was with and I were all threatened with police action if we were caught dead skateboarding on any public grounds throughout the city. I pretty much meant the only locations we could skateboard would be within our own properties… But, if we live within a particular distance of downtown, we could not even use skateboards on her own properties! Now the town has gone so far as to ban all cannabis dispensaries. That means if you want to get cannabis, you have to drive out of the town or get a delivery order from a cannabis dispensary in the state. It’s really discouraging not having access to the cannabis dispensaries that are found in all the other cities within our whole state, but perhaps at some point in time the town will realize that they’re losing out on update by keeping cannabis dispensaries banned plus they’ll perhaps consider adjusting the rules. I can’t hold our breath for the morning when a cannabis dispensary will exist within our town limits.