There are also large swaths of America where not paying for parking is done on principle. I live in SoCal, and the paid public parking lots were (until recently) free for an hour, then $1.50 per hour after that. I would see things like a BMW 7-series circling the blocks looking for a free spot on the street.
I ran the math and the lease on a 7-series at the time was nearly $1.50/hour!
What is crazy about socal is that it's also price insensitive to that sort of behavioral shifting one might expect from more expensive parking. These days, good luck parking around weho without just throwing your hands in the air and paying a valet $40 thanks to the byzantine web of local permit zones that has emerged in recent years, mostly in mid city and the west side for now. It hasn't lessened the amount of people going down santa monica blvd or anything, and people certainly aren't taking a bus to a $40 plate dinner. Just hurts the subset of people who have to get out there for whatever reason and can't easily stomach a valet hit in stride.
I ran the math and the lease on a 7-series at the time was nearly $1.50/hour!