My 2c on Currency Swaps
The beauty of the internet is that I can be anywhere and you can’t tell. I’m in Montreal now and you’d never have guessed. You can’t even see that I’m wearing a giant moose hat right now. Okay, I’m not… Anyway, Montreal is very pretty. It’s my first time in Canada and one day I’m definitely coming back to see much more.
I’m big on travel and am much savvier now than I was when I first started seeing the world 10 years ago. I don’t pack a million things, for one, and try not to fall for tourist scams.
What does irk me though is how completely and utterly ripped off you get when you exchange money. It’s worst at the airport (often a laughable exchange rate plus an additional fee) but it’s bad pretty much at any Bureau De Change. And if I use my New Zealand money card at ATMs overseas I get ‘currency coversion’ fees, something mysterious called a ‘convenience fee’ and a ‘just because we feel like it’ fee.
Why can’t we all just use Linden dollars, like in Second Life?
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