price hike is unevitable with current goverment ability vs world economic situation. there are few approaches against these but will need citizen or community power to do it.

1. bangla asking for price hike, fire them. Hire local or even consider old folks to offset it. bangla are main supporter of BN so let them suffer the hell. As citizen, I would willing to pay more for business who hire local compared to bangla.

2. business owner can consider relocate office to other state that has better commute, I believe if enough business owner could gather and setup another valley in other place, people still will flock over there.

3. as of self, try less selfish a bit. Don't pray for other to do above 2, everybody should gather and provide support to each other to overcome current situation. Don't picky on job and just know how to cry.

With more unemploy bangla and less tol/transport income for crony, they will get hungry and eat themselves eventually.