Canadian Cash

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sat Nov 7 00:58:16 UTC 2009


On 11/06/2009 07:53 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> Having never left this country.. I am not sure how much Canadian money
> one needs to bring over or how charge cards work outside this country.
> Since this might also be the case for 1-2 other people :)... do people
> have any pointers?

Using a credit card should work as if you're in the US, with a reasonable 
conversion rate.  You can also get CAD out of ATMs using your US debit card. 
Your bank may charge a transaction fee.

CAD is slightly cheaper than USD, but for ballpark figures you can assume 
1<->1.  Hope that helps.

behdad



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