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If I were about 50 years younger, I'd be living there. Of course, I've been a desert rat for 40 years so I'll have to get warm jammies to survive.
In 1997 I attended the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. Late November and cold as the heart of a cat refused a treat. One glorious week, a fascinating place to live. The architecture is just, well, astonishing.
I guess a few hundred years of extra time to make and correct mistakes gives you a bit of an advantage over us post-modern cowboys. I'm sure we'll catch up in a few hundred years. Nobodys perfect
The Netherlands is far from perfect but has learned that, however smart people a few centuries ago might have been, new times ask for new rules and new laws. People have to be brave enough to doubt the wisdom of the past and see that sometimes old laws have to be scrapped and new ones added.