Not much going on around me in London. Occasionally, literally once a week I hear someone on 2m and that’s monitoring most of the day. There’s a regular net on sunday evening as well from the local club.
To back up what CJay said; it appears CB is used by local stoners here too. Also the local pirate FM operators use it as a side channel. I dumped my CB kit a couple of years though.
HF and FT8 / CW is where all the action is. Also SSB at the weekends but that’s mainly contests. Problem is HF propagation is crap at the moment. If it picks up it’ll be good again.
I don’t want to do DMR or any of that stuff myself if I’m honest.
Have a scan about, I was pleasantly surprised to find lots of locals using simplex on 2M after being told quite emphatically that 2M was dead. Same with 70CM, there's plenty of activity where I am once you get off the repeaters, YMMV of course but have a go, if only to get into it.
I've made the point this morning on the RSGB Technical list, yes, the HF bands are quiet but get on them and call CQ, maybe nobody will reply but if nobody calls then nobody will answer. FT8 very definitely shows there are good contacts to be made on HF despite the 'lack of propagation'.
DMR does not interest me either, doesn't seem much of a technical challenge or point to linking a repeater to the 'net, that seems analogous to using Skype with a radio mike but it's popular and I accept it's just my personal taste that makes it unattractive to me.
But what would I know, apparently my M0 is inferior because I've never sent flawless 97WPM Morse from the radio operator's seat of a burning Lancaster whilst nose diving into the Atlantic or modified the bearings of a WW1 battle tank to act as a rotary converter to power a transmitter made with valves salvaged from Edison's mum's radiogram...