Actually, you can use US currency anywhere in
Canada without any trouble at all. But using Canadian dollars even just a
few miles into the USA is difficult.
Even on the last boundary expedition, I brought
along some greenback and even used them here and there. US dollars are a
great "emergency" currency that can be used almost anywhere. Try using a
Pound Sterling or Euro in Guatemala, China or Australia.
Doug
Doug Murray Productions / Border Films
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Infomatrix / CBC POV Sports
Vancouver BC
604-728-1407
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work:
"A movie was being shot and they detained me for
continuity."
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 2:48
PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: National
Geographic Quiz
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> wouldnt you be if everyone
accepted your money & spoke your
> language & ate your
hamburgers etc
The question comes up in rec.travel.europe a lot. Where
does this idea come from that everyone accepted US dollars? You can't spend
dollars in shops outside of the USA, just as you can't spend Euros in American
shops. Not even in former Eastern block countries (where Western currencies
used to be welcome, but more likely DM than dollars), because the communist
block doesn't exist now, and the local currencies can now buy the same
consumer dreams as in the West. If you try to pay with dollars outside the US,
all you get a blank stare and a polight request to pay in local currency.
About the language ... many people in the world learn English, but once they
visit the United States they'll learn that Americans don't. But you score a
point for the hamburgers, McDonalds are ubiquitous around the world. Even
though their product range has ethnical variations you don't find in their
home country.
Regards
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