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RE: Back in Town: A bit of Amsterdam
I was born in Amsterdam and live there ever since.
The city I knew and loved seemed to have slowly vanished and turned into some sort of Disney Land.
A lot of the original inhabitants of the centre of Amsterdam, like myself, moved to more quiet parts of the city, to escape the ever growing tourism.....
That's how it goes.
Sucks to hear that that is reality ibdeed. I believe ya, it is almost hard to find an original amsterdammer and even more difficult to find one who still lives there. The hele grachtengordel is kind of a joke at the moment :(
Did you read the book "Grand hotel Europa" by Ilja Leonard Pfeiffer?
In a hilarious way he describes a lot of the tourism related topics ( of Venice, Amsterdam and other cities )