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Originally Posted by SpicyM
If I am right, it was actually the people living there who wanted it gone due to massive turism. There were lots of big groups of tourists visiting it every day just to see the girls behing the windows and the whole place was a mess. Still a shame though, it was the main attraction typical for the city.
BTW: regulation of turism is happening in many other European cities as well
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The government bought up some red light houses and turned them into houses for living. For sure when you create living areas in busy neighbourhoods, they start complaining. And for sure the start proceeding when they know the house price will go to the roof when winning. And it is also about sex trafficking. Since they legalized prostitution about 15 years ago 70% of the clubs in Holland is gone. In the red light disttict most are not Dutch girls. In other parts of Holland it is also disappearing, in Utrecht you had like 100 of houseboats with hookers, also gone years ago.
The fun with this mayor is that she want to build windmills in the middle of Amsterdam. Finally something i agree on. Instead of building them in the quiet parts where i live. They alway try to ruin that nature for the energy they need in Amsterdam. But now people start protesting against that. Green Nimby´s.
But in the end it is sad that the Red Light District Webmaster Access trips will be gone. Always popular hanging out in the red light districts bars.