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Post by stuttgartershrew on Jun 1, 2005 10:15:33 GMT 1
How do you feel about the fact prices of goods will rise in this Country when we change over? There's no reason why they should. If it goes the same way as it did here then prices will rise big time, seems they kept the value and just replaced DM with Euro here...
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Post by SeanBroseley on Jun 1, 2005 10:26:51 GMT 1
What exactly have the French voted against? Civilisation.. Something worth voting against
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Post by Rob os on Jun 1, 2005 12:18:18 GMT 1
Cheapest way to get foreign currency abroad is to use a Nationwide debit card in an ATM. No fee is charged, and the exchange is at the banking rate not the tourist rate
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Post by MartinB on Jun 1, 2005 12:21:55 GMT 1
Cheapest way to get foreign currency abroad is to use a Nationwide debit card in an ATM. No fee is charged, and the exchange is at the banking rate not the tourist rate I use this everytime it's excellent.
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Post by mike-in-cairo on Jun 1, 2005 14:07:38 GMT 1
the price of everything in gran canaria has gone up a lot since the euro came in. don't completely understand why but lots of prices of things were 'rounded up'! also lots of 'black money' appeared which people couldn't bank (?) so it was spent on property which caused the economy to change. homes are really expensive here, comparable to the uk and that's one reason i'll not stay.
currency-wise, since being here' i'm of the opinion that uk should probably stick with the quid! at least until everybody else in europe is on board.
i also agree completely that banks rip u off with exchange rates. i've had to become an expert at timing money movements to send cash back home from euros to quids.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Jun 2, 2005 2:29:28 GMT 1
Pleasant news: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4601439.stmThe issue about bank exchange rates shows that while you can vote against big government - as the Dutch and French people have - you cannot vote against big business. The prospect of having to rely upon ever bigger government to deal with the iniquities of ever bigger business is not a mouth-watering one.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Jun 2, 2005 2:36:06 GMT 1
I pay taxes in this country so someone in Greece can grow grapes to make wine that they can't sell but they get paid anyway. There's something wrong with that. Just in the same way that paying a larger amount of tax if you earn over £100,000 in this country to fund someone else would surely be wrong?!?!? People on £100,000 should be paying a larger amount of tax. I would hate to think that someone earning over 3 times what I earn is only paying the same amount of tax. From 6th April 2006 people earning £100,000 will be able to claim up to £40,000 per year in state benefits. Now that's not only wrong it is idiotic from a public policy viewpoint.
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