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Amsterdam resident in the Red Light District (de Wallen) here. The tourists are a drag, as mentioned, they piss and poop and vomit all over the place. They dec

by com 4y ago

Amsterdam resident in the Red Light District (de Wallen) here. The tourists are a drag, as mentioned, they piss and poop and vomit all over the place. They decrease trade for the working women and people of other genders in the windows. My brilliant neighbourhood pizzeria closed and was replaced by a Nutella store. But: most of this is driven by the cash-only bars and the evening “supermarkets” that still sell booze under the counter. Bars that aren’t responsible for street noise, antisocial behaviour or mountains of trash on the street every day. Get the alcohol situation under control - booze only served to people indoors or seated outdoors. Booze sellers not obeying the law closed down permanently. But there’s too much money in beer and Desperados, so they’re going to move the working women out from their relatively safe neighbourhood, cut down canal cruises? What? Get more people enjoying what is a lovely, unique and above all surprisingly real neighbourhood that like it or not is dependent on tourism. Or accelerate gentrification while the streets are washed every night with vomit in the meantime until rich folk complain too much to their buddies in the city government. The antisocial situation is not people who’ve snorted chalk dust or taken placebo drugs, or eaten a space muffin. It’s excessive drinking and a culture of impunity of the bars.

greggarious 4y ago
>The tourists are a drag, as mentioned, they piss and poop and vomit all over the place. They decrease trade for the working women and people of other genders in the windows. My brilliant neighbourhood pizzeria closed and was replaced by a Nutella store. Condolences, Nutella is overrated and so does gentrification. >... most of this is driven by the cash-only bars and the evening “supermarkets” that still sell booze under the counter. Bars that aren’t responsible for street noise, antisocial behaviour or mountains of trash on the street every day. Get the alcohol situation under control - booze only served to people indoors or seated outdoors. Booze sellers not obeying the law closed down permanently. I agree. But also maybe cite people who piss and shit in public as well? AMS has plenty of restrooms, people are just lazy little fucks. Part of it might be alcohol, but part of it is permissiveness -- America takes it too far in the other direction and labels you a sex offender if the only person who stumbles upon you peeing is a cop but... fining people three or four figures might help. (Or throwing them in jail overnight) Orrrr... raise the drinking age to 21 like in the USA? I got the sense it's mostly Americans who go buck wild, but apparently it's a thing in some places in London they set it higher and that's not the worst idea IMHO. >The antisocial situation is not people who’ve snorted chalk dust or taken placebo drugs, or eaten a space muffin. It’s excessive drinking and a culture of impunity of the bars. Yeah, I overdid it on the last one and people were nice -- I took some psychobillin and the peoplke in my hostel started messing with me, so I ended up in the corner of some frites shop for 3 hours, and I felt bad about it. I think maybe it's something about alcohol? I quit the stuff, and I've noticed it makes people... meaner. Not just in the fighty sense but more willing to do things like... entitlely demand to use a toilet someplace they've never been a customer then go poop into a canal if their don't get their way. (The best being some percentage of them apparently fall in and someone has to literally drag them out? That's another solution, though maybe too dark... just let them drown in their own urine.) But I'll shut up and defer to you since you actually live there -- I only visited :-)

by com 4y ago

greggarious 4y ago

>The tourists are a drag, as mentioned, they piss and poop and vomit all over the place. They decrease trade for the working women and people of other genders in the windows. My brilliant neighbourhood pizzeria closed and was replaced by a Nutella store. Condolences, Nutella is overrated and so does gentrification. >... most of this is driven by the cash-only bars and the evening “supermarkets” that still sell booze under the counter. Bars that aren’t responsible for street noise, antisocial behaviour or mountains of trash on the street every day. Get the alcohol situation under control - booze only served to people indoors or seated outdoors. Booze sellers not obeying the law closed down permanently. I agree. But also maybe cite people who piss and shit in public as well? AMS has plenty of restrooms, people are just lazy little fucks. Part of it might be alcohol, but part of it is permissiveness -- America takes it too far in the other direction and labels you a sex offender if the only person who stumbles upon you peeing is a cop but... fining people three or four figures might help. (Or throwing them in jail overnight) Orrrr... raise the drinking age to 21 like in the USA? I got the sense it's mostly Americans who go buck wild, but apparently it's a thing in some places in London they set it higher and that's not the worst idea IMHO. >The antisocial situation is not people who’ve snorted chalk dust or taken placebo drugs, or eaten a space muffin. It’s excessive drinking and a culture of impunity of the bars. Yeah, I overdid it on the last one and people were nice -- I took some psychobillin and the peoplke in my hostel started messing with me, so I ended up in the corner of some frites shop for 3 hours, and I felt bad about it. I think maybe it's something about alcohol? I quit the stuff, and I've noticed it makes people... meaner. Not just in the fighty sense but more willing to do things like... entitlely demand to use a toilet someplace they've never been a customer then go poop into a canal if their don't get their way. (The best being some percentage of them apparently fall in and someone has to literally drag them out? That's another solution, though maybe too dark... just let them drown in their own urine.) But I'll shut up and defer to you since you actually live there -- I only visited :-)