2 Brits Lost Inside Amsterdam's Notorious Ghetto 🇳🇱

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  @WendallExplores · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @daverobertson5633 · 1 year ago

  I moved from Birmingham to Amsterdam 6 years ago and i don&apos;t think i&apos;ll ever come back. Even the most &apos;dangerous&apos; areas are well looked after, the grass is cut, the bike lanes are painted, the bins are actually emptied. The council actually look after the poorest areas, i feel my experience growing up in Birmingham was that the poorer areas we completely neglected. Every time i come back to Brum i shocked at how much rubbish and fly tipping there is and quite how run down it looks in places.

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  @haatpraat2993 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m British (Birmingham) born, background Jamaican parents, living for years now in the Netherlands. I was once lost in the Bijlmer around midnight with my car with British number plates. I noticed a car following me around. I stopped, the car pulled up beside me. I wound down my window and the guys in the other car in perfect English asked if I was lost. I said I was and they simply directed me on to the correct road. &nbsp;I have been back to the Bijlmer many times and have not for a nano-second felt bothered by it.

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  @parmentier7457 · 1 year ago

  I was born and raised in the Bijlmer. This district has about 100,000 inhabitants, most of whom have a different ethnic background. The Bijlmer was a no-go zone in the 90s. Even taxis from the city center did not want to drive to the Bijlmer. That is why many illegal taxis (snorders) emerged, which are still there. In 1992 there was a turning point, when a Boeing 747 from El Al crashed in the Bijlmer. Many people died in the flats, many of them illegals. The city council was very shocked that they did not know who all lived in the Bijlmer. The flats had been neglected for years, the municipality then decided to demolish some of the flats and build more expensive houses. By building houses in the expensive segment, the municipality hoped that more rich (white) people would move to the Bijlmer. And that is what happened. The Bijlmer also became the second business district of Amsterdam. For example, the bank headquarters of ING, ABN Amro and Deutsche Bank were established in the Bijlmer. The new Ajax stadium was built in the same area, as well as concert and pop venues. The Bijlmer also became the second entertainment area of ​​Amsterdam. The bank offices attracted other headquarters, which meant that during the day there were many people in suits walking around among all the coloured residents. The Bijlmer also became a public transport hub, with an IC station to other Dutch cities such as Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Maastricht, but also to Schiphol. There are also three metro lines in the Bijlmer. But the name Bijlmermeer has been replaced by Amsterdam Zuidoost. Probably because of the bad name Bijlmer.

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  @jerryw1608 · 1 year ago

  I am from Amsterdam, I think the UK is completely lost and in no way at all a paradise. I work at Bijlmer, it&apos;s completely safe to be at.

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  @davidglen4559 · 1 year ago

  lived here 35 years never had a problem .you walked past my apartment the one with the shopping trolley in the water .its still there today

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  @Dmanthebes · 1 year ago (edited)

  The dutch speak better english than the English 😂😂😂😂

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  @undistortedX · 1 year ago

  In almost every video about the Dutch and The Netherlands one thing stands out: They don&apos;t seem to notice the praise they receive from people from other countries and show no proud in their achievements. The Dutch directness can even be seen as arrogance but it&apos;s not. The directness is not the cause but the effect of deeply rooted, implicit notion of being in the same boat, sailing the same ship, playing in the same team, all meaning relying on each other, this needs a high-trust society where people are not thrown overboard. The Dutch don&apos;t think the group is more important than the individual, they know the individual only can thrive in a good group: the individual = the team = the group. It&apos;s not socialism, it&apos;s next-level capitalism. &quot;It&apos;s normal!&quot; many Dutch would say.

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  @vanessahenderson1850 · 1 year ago

  I was over in Amsterdam years ago. I was about 28 years old. I spent ages in the square and there was every nationality. I can honestly say that I felt safe even though there was loads of people there. There was a huge police presence too and I only saw a couple of guys being slung into a police van. The police certainly didn&apos;t mess about that&apos;s for sure. It was proper policing.

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  @Quanahtorri7 · 1 year ago (edited)

  If any “Amsterdam Native” calls Bijlmer dangerous, they are not an Amsterdam Native. My caucasian local grandparents were the first to go live there, it has always been pretty good to live there, just a tad isolated from the city. There was a moment in time that some areas became very dodgy, but its actually just more working class than the rest of the city and therefore a little rougher.<br><br>Go to Amsterdam Nieuw-West between Plein 40-45 and Geuzenveld at night, this is the only dodgy place left. There a few poorer spots in Bijlmer that still have some criminality, but it’s honestly really nothing…

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  @The_4_Paws · 1 year ago

  I cant remember of a dutch person not speaking english, all of those I knew back in time spoke english very well to the point that I even thought they were british. Dutch people are the most open and easy to go with I have ever experienced, I have been to Amsterdam for a few months but that was back in 2005, I dont have an idea how Amsterdam looks today and there you are, updating us on that, many many thanks my friend 😎

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  @BetsyEimers · 1 year ago

  I lived 18 years in the Bijlmer. Came straight from a village in the countryside. Never afraid there. Not even when walking there in the middle of the night. And great food!

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