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Why are they speaking foreign language?

With tourists gone, Amsterdam locals reclaim their city
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/amsterdam-covid-19-tourists/index.html

It's interesting that people in Amsterdam had used English at shops in case of the tourists from foreign countries.
As is often the case with areas where borders of dialects or languages traverse in their vicinities, people try to speak common languages even with neighborhoods to prevent failure of communication.
For example, many young people in and around Nagoya try to speak normal Japanese, due to similar situation.