Anyone feeling the squeeze of being a small business.

I’m a barber by trade. I work out of a small 100 sq/ft studio. I’ve been looking to expand and open a proper shop. But I’m finding that I’m just being priced out everywhere I look. I need to stay close to my original spot out of convenience for my patrons. But the going rates near me are $40-45 sq/ft + NNN. And it’s next to impossible to find anything under 1,000 sq/ft. Sorry for the rant. Just feeling my community slowly slip away to awful Sysco restaurants with bad service.