FXramper From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 7048 posts, RR: 92 Reply 1, posted (6 years 11 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 1377 times:
My folks lived in Portugal for five years and I still remember doing the conversion. It use to be a lot more financially sound for them to spend extended months abroad versus the US. Not anymore.
Leskova From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 6075 posts, RR: 72 Reply 3, posted (6 years 11 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1351 times:
Actually, I stopped converting things into the local currency about 6 months before the Euro was introduced - all prices were listed in DM and € at the time, so I used the Euro... which was also the base currency we used at the office, so it made the conversion quite easy for me.
Levent From France, joined Sep 2004, 1718 posts, RR: 5 Reply 6, posted (6 years 11 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1333 times:
Nope, I already have a hard time converting the local currencies into euros, let alone if I would be thinking "oh, what would this have been in guilders?"
We were probably among the first people to pay in euros on January 1st, 2002. We were in a cafe in Paris and I paid with euro notes for the champagne. The bartender wasn't too happy about it though...
but of course he had to accept it.
Skyman From Germany, joined May 2006, 494 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 11 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1291 times:
Nope I only count in � now and am happy with it. No more exchaning mone< for most European countries. Also the � is looking good against the $.
ManuCH From Switzerland, joined exactly 8 years ago today! , 2977 posts, RR: 51 Reply 9, posted (6 years 11 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1260 times:
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We don't have Euros in Switzerland... but when watching Italian TV I notice that they often convert things in Italian Lire (1 Euro = approx. 2000 Lire), especially when talking about high amounts (for example, a building sounds more expensive if you say that it costs 60 billion Lire instead of 30 million Euros).
Sabena332 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (6 years 11 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1249 times:
No, I don't convert, it makes no sense because the German Mark is gone since over 4 years, no need to convert into a currency that doesn't exist anymore.
ANother From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (6 years 11 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1229 times:
Funny you should ask! I was on the train from ZRH to GVA (or thereabouts) on Thursday - It was hot so I went straight to the Resturant car and ordered a beer.
Just before the train left the station three students from Miami got on the train, looking very confused. They tried to speak to the waiter in the resturant who spoke little english and wasn't much help. I intervened and with my English/French and (little) German managed to sort out they were on the right train, and they could indeed enjoy a beer (otherwise they would have to schlep their baggage to the next carriage). Do they take euros, they asked? I said probably but don't you have any Swiss Francs? What's that, they asked? Sigh. Apparently 'somebody' had told them that in Europe they only needed euros. I asked them if they knew how many dollars there were to a euro ... no idea. The waiter came along with a 1/2 litre tin of beer and asked for CHF5.60 (about the same price in a bar in Switzerland). One had a 10 euro note but the other two only had 20s. The each paid and received their francs in change - the exchange rate, from what I could tell wasn't bad (but it wasn't great either). They couldn't understand why they got CHF back in change and why they would need it anyway!
The last comment, before leaving the train at Bern, was they certainly hoped their hotel had air conditioning. It was a two star hotel!
I certainly hope they enjoy their stay here, but what do they teach these kids these days. They really shouldn't be let out on their own!
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 19259 posts, RR: 63 Reply 12, posted (6 years 11 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1218 times:
Quoting ANother (Reply 11): They couldn't understand why they got CHF back in change and why they would need it anyway!
I used to concern myself with having the right money all the time, until one morning at Schiphol. I was using my last few guilders to buy a coffee and a woman came up next to me and did the same. Only she paid with dollar bills, and received change back in quarters, nickels and dimes! I was in disbelief, as I'd never seen such a thing happen except in Mexico and the Caribbean.
I really do believe that there's a mindset out there (but certainly not from all Americans) that everyone takes dollars (or euros, if they've so been told), and if they don't, they'll speak up.
BR076 From Netherlands, joined May 2005, 1077 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 11 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1206 times:
I sometimes convert the price , but it make you real depressed because you than realise that the beer you order now cost 2 Euro and before 2.25 guilders ( 1.05 Euro)
Levent From France, joined Sep 2004, 1718 posts, RR: 5 Reply 14, posted (6 years 11 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1177 times:
Quoting ManuCH (Reply 9): when watching Italian TV I notice that they often convert things in Italian Lire (1 Euro = approx. 2000 Lire), especially when talking about high amounts
When I worked in real estate in Spain, the Spaniards would always talk about property prices in pesetas. They had no idea how much 150,000 euros was... you had to say 25,000,000 pesetas.
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because you than realise that the beer you order now cost 2 Euro and before 2.25 guilders ( 1.05 Euro)
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