Tasty1

I lived in the old city center in city in Holland. Very nice street, all small business owners, fashion stores, restaurants, even a shop where they sold hats (already over 100 year...), small cheese store etcetra, just like Italy They will survive, they made it a nice street But than the local socialist and green party made more and more regulations. Extra money for parking, forbid cars enter the city, if someone placed a nice sign outside with the sale of the day they got a fine, the fucking socialist communist even wanted a tax for advertisements in the window... THAT extra regulation made some shop close, it was in the middle of the crisis. 1 sign with 'sale of the day' could have prevented that, that made the extra 2000 euro they needed. I helped protesting and after years the Green Left party collapsed and other party took over and made the street better, banks on the street so you people could sit down while shopping (instead in an expensive cafe), allowing nice advertisement on the street (not billboards) and now that street is choosen the nicest shopping street in Holland. When i saw that green bastards doing all that to terrorise the small shop owners, they will never get my vote.

Also you saw the big chains profiting, while they never invested in street partys or christmas decoration to give the street a nice atmosphere. To get those chains to the city like Zara, the local governement helped them cause they wanted big brands... and doing nothing for small shop owners.

Small specialized shop owners can survive, if the governement is not terrorizing the small shop owners. The hat store is realy from another century, there used to be a lot. Now only one, that is logic cause who wears a hat... But he start selling them on the internet to germany also and survived.

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