Like most big cities, Amsterdam has it's bad areas and that's what you might have run into. Around the train stations seemed really bad to me with beggars, prostitutes and whacked out drug addicts.
I was really stoned one night and walked out of the red light district into "the wrong side of town" I guess, because once we crossed a street, everything seemed to be more dangerous. Sort of like on East Hastings in Vancouver, where one street corner is nice and clean but when you cross the street, the sidewalks are suddenly dirty and there's people shooting up in doorways.
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