Comments by "Widdekuu91" (@Widdekuu91) on "Bloomberg Originals"
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To a certain point it's fun, but the last couple of years, there's been more negative side-effects.
Locals are living in a commercialised city, that's adapted to the needs of the tourists, rather than the locals.
There's English and Italian vomit in every alleyway in the weekends, there's noise everywhere, there's endless lines in front of all the ATM machines.
There's tourists walking on the cycling-paths, there's a shortage of housing because the people visit Air-bnb's and can (illegally) rent a house for a couple of days.
Tourists aren't here to have a well-behaved holiday with a measured volume.
They're here to scream, drink, smoke weed, fuck, dance and then leave again.
Thóse are the tourists that cause complaints.
I live in a small city near Amsterdam and we get the 'rest' of the tourists. Our city Weesp has been deemed 'Small Amsterdam' now, because they tourists can't/dontwantto pronounce Weesp (Way-sp) and they just like the word Amsterdam.
Muiden/Muiderslot is now 'Amsterdam Castle.' It's degrading.
I have to fight my way to the Albert Heijn, because there's crowds of Russian tourists shuffling around, debating over what 'Volle' and 'Halfvolle' melk means, while the American ones are shoving environment-destructing waterbottles in their cart (too paranoid about our clean water) and the Germans loudly joke around about all the 'huren' (renting) in the advertisements.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Germans and the English, but there is a limit to the amount of people that can visit, without assuring there'll be staggering, pissed British trying to urinate in our bike-shed or loudly fumbling around with each other in our stair-cases.
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