Will Things Never Change?

So, I went to take a peek at what's going on in our town last Thursday...

...and got reminded why I rarely go out randomly in this place, especially without company that would usually serve as a counterweight. It awakened the grimmest and most negative views I held of population of this place, the nearly forgotten discontent. It may sound whiny but I was shocked to see how the general state of mind around here made no noticeable progress whatsoever in the last years - not that it was any better before that.
In any case, next to nearly pushing me into a momentary depression, meeting all these people after a long time, including the new ones who had successful internalized the patterns copied onto them by their contemporaries, reminded me that I really gotta get out of this place. Fast.