Should have included Toronto on my "visited" list and Kathmandu on my "to visit" list--but what to drop?? Maybe Galway on the "visited" list and Buenos Aires on the "to visit." Galway and Toronto are a bit hard to compare, though--they're just slightly different!
As for Amsterdam, certainly a lot of people want to go there to get wasted and/or laid, but I've been there twice and I enjoyed it for the great art galleries, the history, the beautiful canals and architecture, the sidewalk cafes, the people on those funny old-fashioned bicycles...There are many reasons to go to a place like Amsterdam. Not that I'd want to live there, much as I enjoyed visiting it...