I appreciate your willingness to self-reflect, but the problem isn’t just tourists.
It’s a very valuable location and the capitalists want to turn it into expensive condos.
Yeah I tend to think this is the real reason. De Wallen is prime real eststate and Helsema seems bent on turning Amsterdam into a shiny sparkling playground for rich fuckheads.
Have they considered that if they take away the red light district the rich fuckheads might not want to visit as much?
It’s not about visitors. It’s about the real estate in that area. Is very historic and very central but because the area is so party oriented it can’t be properly monetized by these bland, rich parasites.
They wanna push out the riff raff and make it all clean an inoffensive for property investors.
It’s past serving it’s purpose. It drew lots of people and filled government and real estate coffers when the city was down, but now it’s a net drag because the people dropping €6M on an apartment don’t want the common riff raff (anyone able to spend less than €800/night on a hotel room) from disturbing their peace and smelling like skunk all the time.
(Okay, there are technically only a couple places in the city on the market for €6M, but with prices quickly approaching €10000/m2 all but the rich and snobby are getting shoved out)
