Rotterdam is the worst, our German friends destroyed everything which might have been nice and now it's all modern and no atmosphere.
You see, this is what we call a failure when it concerns city knowledge. Instead of your oversized villages and hamlets, those provincial towns you call 'capital' like Amsterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag, Antwerpen or even Brussel, Rotterdam is a real city -- the only one of the Benelux.

It has a real city center -- not that every other town has, but a real one with skyscrapers and modern architecture. You know, like modern cities, not like five hundred years ago. What makes all your tiny towns fail in regards to Rotterdam is that they lack a skyline, except the odd building they managed to build ten miles outside of the city core.

But of course, this is taste. You're country bopkins, and I'm a metropolitan, of course But to each his own

What doesn't fall under that category, however, is the labelling of Rotterdam as "soulless", "charmless", or another of such fine generalizations.

You see, anyone saying such a thing about Rotterdam clearly doesn't know jack about the city; doesn't know jack about the people living there; doesn't know jack about the things there are to do; doesn't know jack about the city culture; doesn't know jack of the city past a fleeting glimpse of the city core; doesn't know...

Enfin, need I continue? It may appear as if I'm a hypocrite by saying this, but remember that I am arguing taste above. I am saying I find "cities" like Brussel or Amsterdam to have the atmosphere of nothing more than tiny villages, instead of that of a world city. Unlike you, I am providing my opinion, based on what I know well -- instead of trying to present my ill-concieved opinion of the life in these "cities" (sorry ) as fact.

Last but not least... Rotterdam is the most important city of the European Union. Game over.

P.S. If my debating style is un-Frontroomish, feel free to delete and warn me for it. I know it's far more suited to Backroom discussions.