Comments by "mormacil" (@mormacil) on "Hoog" channel.

The main goal is to reduce the impact the RLD has on the citizens living there. The impact on the ladies is secondary to most people. They just want less drunken tourists causing a ruckus. So for most people this isn't remotely a poor decision. They don't want to recreate the RLD, because they consider it's existence to be an issue. They're not making choices for the ladies that work that but for the people that live there.
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1) Certain divides equally exist in Europe, look at the still present East/West divide of Germany with vast differences economically. Or an even bigger example, Belgium. Split between what's essentially the Wallonian rust belt and the more service oriented Flanders. They even speak different languages, now that's a divide of needs and customs. 2) A true patriot would care. I don't have kids yet I feel child benefits are necessary. I won't ever get cervix cancer but fully support national health insurance covering it. Taxes are for the benefit of society, not oneself.
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@yurisonovab3892 They want less tourists downtown, not in the whole city. So building a center outside downtown is conflicting with that how?
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@yurisonovab3892 If the issue is to many on a specific location how is moving the location not the solution. Both main locations for the new sex tower are located in areas that are significantly more open and further removed from residential buildings.
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Could be worse, could look a lot more like Rotterdam.
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I don't see the conflict?
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They consistently rank in the top 5 worldwide. Dutch life expectancy is in the European top 10, above the EU average. If it was among the worst wouldn't the Dutch life expectancy be lower then average? Instead of beating Finland?
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Far from the worst though
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Personally I love brutalist architecture but I agree the Bijlmer high rises are just ugly. The trees are really nice and it cleaned up pretty well but the original designs were fugly. But it is the same era that tried to put highways through the historic centers of cities like Utrecht, people were just mad.
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He's Dutch himself, you're allowed self criticism, it's a Dutch pasttime.
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@LCTesla De Polder is pretty big but you're right less coffeeshops. But at the expense of it being Rotterdam so that still feels like a loss.
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Who's better?
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City has an issue with to many low income tourists, much more then they got a use for. In fact they cause significant costs to keep them moving smoothly. If anything this reduces costs for the city. But yeah it sucks for the sex workers.
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@Ofasia777 Educating yourself is commendable. I always been kind of a fan of the plan to move more and more attractions to Zuid, it's a good location for things. Doesn't have to be sex but some museums wouldn't be amiss or something more commercial. It already houses the convention centers.
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I mean over 95% of the country doesn't identify as Muslim and the majority of Muslims are of European descend so not really? Perhaps checks the facts once in a while, helps you develop a truthful view of reality.
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Significantly better though the area of the crash is still the worst off part. What doesn't help is the poor connection to the rest of the city. The other side of the Bijlmer has two metro lines, one directly downtown. The area of the crash on the other hand has only one metro line and not nearly as well connected. But as a whole the Bijlmer area is doing much better, crime is down significantly for example, that seemed to have moved West and to the city of Rotterdam.
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How is this more commercialized then entire streets dedicated to displaying it?
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@duckface81 They did build the buildings for sex workers.
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@marcokonst4144 You should really know that Dutch majors aren't elected. Nobody from Amsterdam voted for her...
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There's significantly more space in South for a few million tourists.
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Why England? There fourteen European countries with lions in their coat of arms. The UK is I think the only one with more then four lions.
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@quidam_surprise Native lions of Europe are extinct but they existed up to the bronze age. Hence Herakles fought them in Greece.
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@SerioeserName I can't even recall the English coat of arms. I highly doubt it;s the best known one. The fact we speak English has nothing to do with it. We speak English because we're in the American cultural sphere. It has nothing to do with the UK at all.
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@quidam_surprise So? There has been extensive European travel since the stone age. Our oldest continental battle that has warriors from Spain, the Balkans and Scandinavia is over 5000 years ago. People traveled and traded, especially along the amber road from the Baltic states to Italian peninsula. And then Rome spread their culture to all corners of their empire. I fail to see your point.
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@SerioeserName What does that have to do with the range of Eurasian lions? You made a point about them being southern.
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@quidam_surprise Not really, till the Marshall Plan after we German and French were the dominant secondary languages. English only had an uptick after the Americans went to work in Europe.
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Hé has an accent, I picked out a fellow countryman in seconds. But it’s a rare and mild accent.
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@Ofasia777 RLD visitors are a tiny part of the tourist industry of Amsterdam and the majority of the costs. Amsterdam is actively spending money to make low income tourists like British stag parties to stay away. They're buying ad space in the UK to get them to stay away. Amsterdam wants to invest more into high income high culture tourists. Like around Museumplein which houses some of the most famous museums in the world. That brings in significantly more then the RLD.
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@anthonydowling3356 Coldius called them ladies, merely using his terminology for clarity. Not sure what they're ripping off though.
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