I hear ya. I try to blend in and live as the denizens of whatever culture that I visit. I am a "Traveler" rather than a "Tourist".westwoody said:
US vs. Canadian Currency
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OUCH! A bit hostile, eh?crossed fingers said:we're generally the most easy going people around but all i ment to say is that i wouldn't take the american dollar as being the modern gold standard for granted. the vast majority of the world knows america as an entity is going to burn in the deepest quadrant hell for how they've gotten ahead in the game. yeah yeah yeah, don't hate the player... my only relevant wish is that the canadian dollar would fairly represent it's contributions to the world, being the number one supplier of oil to the united states (second is venezuela) and primary holder of the only resource more valuable: water. 90% of the world's clean supply. fuck the yank mofos trying to destroy that by attempting to bribe us into being nuclear dumping ground for american power plants. you owe us well more than 20% by what we're cheating out of by poor international policy. the quality girls deserve more than the going rate in vancouver anyway - you can thank vansterdam's notoriously clean heroin for those undercutting rates into the ground - and i don't know how else to better represent your verility than with throwing paper around, based on observation of american culture.
Re: pricing for SP's, you can blame supply and demand rather than anything else. FYI, the pricing is not far off from other major metropolitan areas which I've pooned in.
Re: the rest of your rant; that's one of the the reasons I'm moving THERE and leaving here. Don't charge me for i! I am already subjected to "terrorist" attacks and suffer other consequences of policies that I have absolutely no say in.
I have no idea why this country isn't financially bankrupt anyway. Probably because with the Federal Reserve we can just print more money.
WTF are you talking about dude? What does politics have to do with clever remarks?dittman said:thats because you are so full of shit, You would not hear that kind of garbage comming out of any americans mouth especially in redondo beach calif. the bluest of blue states. they would be thinking alot like you. But then again as i have said in the past canada gets the bad we get the good.
Supposedly that's one of the main reasoons for going after Iran as well. They're starting a trading house selling EURO backed petroleum.georgebushmoron said:Wouldn't count your chickens too fast about America going down and the greenback the defacto gold standard sliding away. Sorry, but most foreign reserves of industrialised nations have significant deposits of USD because Nixon got the oil producers to agree that the USD was the currency of transaction. And so it has been that way ever since. Countries then bought up USD for their foreign reserves by exchanging their gold for it. That gold ended up at Fort Knox. Every currency is thus backed almost completely by the USD. And for those who dare to adopt another standard, say the Euro... well look at what happened to Sadaam when he dared to flush 1/3 of his USD reserves for the Euro a few months before Gulf II. All the terrorists, WMD, corrupt leadership aside, the thing that motivates the most is when it hits the fucking wallet my friend.
Don't they have a constitution and EU laws?dittman said:but then again the euro cant be the standard the damn europeans cant even agree on a simple thing like a constitution. by the way the liberals were the ones that wrote it, 400 and some pages. Typical liberals want to control every aspect of ones lifes.
Liberals? Do you think that there is any REAL difference between the left and right here? Any difference is superficial. the CFR 's policies are getting realized no matter who is in office. The rest is just bullshit to keep you busy while the REAL agenda is being realized.
Exactly! Thank you.BobbiVan said:....To accept american at par isn't fair. Your client ends up paying more for the same services. Not fair business practice at all, it's like punishing them for having a different currency.
I don't know about the border states but I'll get raked across the coals if I go to a bank here in California and do it. I wait until I get up thre. My bank card will not work there BTW (or at least, the last time I tried).BushPilot said:No, it's like punishing them for not acting like a normal human being and going to the bank or exchange bureau and getting the proper currency before travelling to a foreign country. It's not even that complicated. All they have to do is go to an ATM, withdraw money from their USA bank account and they'll receive Cdn. $$s at the daily bank exchange rate.
I don't know but I wouldn't think that not having the proper currency is always intentional. Could be late or on a Sunday or a spontaneous decision that leaves you without.
caliscott there is noo difference between the republicans and democrats, but there is a huge difference between conservative and liberal. dont walk run to canada if you hate us so much.
herbie and moron seeing how your one in the same person i will address it to both of you. I try to read as much as i can, but unlike you the closed minded liberal that you are, ill read liberal publications, conservative, libertarian and even the fringe left. whereas people like you herbie and moron just regurgatate what you hear somewhere or read some where in a liberal publication without checking to see if its true. i dont know everything have never said i did, but compared to you im a rocket scientist.
and yes herbie the debt scares the hell out of me but its been that way since the 60s, and i really dont think it is going to change. but the debt is bi-partison, it would be disingenious of you to say that it is bushs creation. yes alot of it is but everybody wants pork to take home to the voters, republicans and democrats.
herbie and moron seeing how your one in the same person i will address it to both of you. I try to read as much as i can, but unlike you the closed minded liberal that you are, ill read liberal publications, conservative, libertarian and even the fringe left. whereas people like you herbie and moron just regurgatate what you hear somewhere or read some where in a liberal publication without checking to see if its true. i dont know everything have never said i did, but compared to you im a rocket scientist.
and yes herbie the debt scares the hell out of me but its been that way since the 60s, and i really dont think it is going to change. but the debt is bi-partison, it would be disingenious of you to say that it is bushs creation. yes alot of it is but everybody wants pork to take home to the voters, republicans and democrats.
I've used my Canadian ATM card in Canada, the USA, China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Australia. Strange that your American ATM card won't work in Canada.Cali Scott said:My bank card will not work there BTW (or at least, the last time I tried).
No D-man, I LOVE my country. I'm actually probably more of a patriot than most of the idiots with the "Support the Troops" ribbons on their cars. I just don't like the self-serving perversion of America's original concept that it has become. I see America sliding into a state of plutocratic oligarchy enforced by tyranny. I feel that Canada is closer America's original concept than we are and that my individual liberties are safer there than here, as sad as that is to me.dittman said:caliscott there is noo difference between the republicans and democrats, but there is a huge difference between conservative and liberal. dont walk run to canada if you hate us so much.
Liberal or Conservative it doesn't matter. Yes, two disparate viewpoints just as with the GOP and the Dem's. The point that's being missed is that none of it belongs in a Constitutional Republic. IOW, the issues that are being addressed by those two viewpoints have no place in the individuals daily life according to the way the system WAS setup to operate. I believe that this is intentional to keep our focus on petty issues rather than what's REALLY going on. It's seems to be working quite nicely at that!
Well, it was a few years ago; maybe 4. I bring cash and have CC's for backup. My TD bankcard won't work at Star machines which are the main network down here. It's a couple of years old though.BushPilot said:I've used my Canadian ATM card in Canada, the USA, China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Australia. Strange that your American ATM card won't work in Canada.
How recently? As of today the official rate is 1 USD = 1.22078 CAD 1 CAD = 0.819148 USD. It changes of course daily.TanMan said:In the States, my bank currently gives me $1.25 CAD for $1 USD.
I can't imagine visiting Canada and expect anyone to take $US. If in Canada pay in Canadian funds !
As Moe pointed out use to be best to get cash via bank card at ATMs until the recent new charges. But at 2am its convienent!
I'm spoiled by the days when 1CAD=.60 US instead of now .82!
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I've visited both Quebec & Ontario this year - not to mention Amsterdam and Deutschland as well. As pointed out in some of the previous posts, 20% is big premium to pay for just being lazy and not converting USD to CDN. Here are a few tips:
There are websites you can use for ballpark exchange rates (travelling from ANY country to almost anywhere). Try this one - they show the greenback valued at almost $1.22 tonight : http://www.xe.com/ucc/
I have a couple of banks that do not charge any fees to convert to other currencies or use ATMs, so that is by far the fastest and my preferred method of exchange. Only downside is that you are typically limited to about $400 per day per account.
As pointed out earlier, legit banks almost ALWAYS offer better rates on cash, traveller's cheques, gold bullion, etc than Hotels, Airports or other self-described "Currency Exchange" joints. All these places are making some money on you by either by shorting you on the going rate or charging a fee (or both).
Lastly, Credit Cards used to be THE way to go a few years ago, and many have now indeed started charging fees. But there are a few institutions left that still do not charge fees and offer favorable exchange rates as well. This is only helpful (in this case) if the SP will accept cc's. Obviously, if you get a cash advance on your cc anywhere, you are going to get nailed with a hefty finance charge regardless of whether you are in your home country or not.
Bottom line is you are better off converting yankee currency via any method with the current 20% premium than paying USD one-to-one for Canadian goods/services. Now if you happen to be carrying Australian dollars, then that is a different story altogether...
I've visited both Quebec & Ontario this year - not to mention Amsterdam and Deutschland as well. As pointed out in some of the previous posts, 20% is big premium to pay for just being lazy and not converting USD to CDN. Here are a few tips:
There are websites you can use for ballpark exchange rates (travelling from ANY country to almost anywhere). Try this one - they show the greenback valued at almost $1.22 tonight : http://www.xe.com/ucc/
I have a couple of banks that do not charge any fees to convert to other currencies or use ATMs, so that is by far the fastest and my preferred method of exchange. Only downside is that you are typically limited to about $400 per day per account.
As pointed out earlier, legit banks almost ALWAYS offer better rates on cash, traveller's cheques, gold bullion, etc than Hotels, Airports or other self-described "Currency Exchange" joints. All these places are making some money on you by either by shorting you on the going rate or charging a fee (or both).
Lastly, Credit Cards used to be THE way to go a few years ago, and many have now indeed started charging fees. But there are a few institutions left that still do not charge fees and offer favorable exchange rates as well. This is only helpful (in this case) if the SP will accept cc's. Obviously, if you get a cash advance on your cc anywhere, you are going to get nailed with a hefty finance charge regardless of whether you are in your home country or not.
Bottom line is you are better off converting yankee currency via any method with the current 20% premium than paying USD one-to-one for Canadian goods/services. Now if you happen to be carrying Australian dollars, then that is a different story altogether...
