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Why wouldn’t they change?

Now:

Czech bank gives 4% on CZK

Dutch bank gives 1.5% on EUR

After:

Czechia introduces EUR: they will also switch to 1.5%

Why would banks give you more interest on HUF than on EUR once there is no HUF anymore?

That’s my point. Now they do and changing to euro would be a loss in this case

Prices are also always rounded up after conversion, when 500 HUF becomes 1.41, shops likely make it 1.50. Also I’m getting 4% on my savings in czk, whereas with a euro account you’d be lucky to get close to 2%.

Businesses are forcing everyone back into the office. You can count yourself very lucky if you can work remote.

For me, there’s 3 supermarkets within a 15-minute walk, my GP the same, hospital 20 minute walk. So yeah an ambulance would be here in minutes. I don’t feel like a prisoner and I’ve never had stuff delivered. That’s just wasteful and more expensive.

They really got the rest of us with that incomplete slogan “never again”.

We thought it meant one thing but you can fill in something else too. Well played, Germany

Never been to the US but I’ve worked with software where tax had to be set up per country. The US was something else. It’s different per state, area, city. Weird taxes like “we’re gonna build a new stadium tax”. I really wonder how people work with that in real life. Do you go to the register, have it scanned and then decide if the price is worth it?

It’s been the short name since 1992 but the English speaking world didn’t really pick it up until the government started pushing for English speakers to finally use it in official documents

If you hear, let’s say, Somalia, normally people would know it’s roughly somewhere east in Africa, Uruguay somewhere in South America etc.

I’ve traveled a lot and only from Americans I’ve heard them say about countries they’ve “never heard of it”. When I say I’m in Czechia, they just call it Chechnya, when I say I’m Dutch they love to mix that up with Denmark for some reason, etc.

Their excuse is always the same too: their school sucks. Dude, we didn’t learn this stuff in school neither. It’s common interest about the world around you, watching the news, etc. Half the countries you “don’t know” were bombed by you.

Yeah we don’t really do school cafeterias. You bring your own food. My middle school did sell some greasy snacks like sausage in a bun but you won’t see a decent lunch being sold

I thought it was EU law but apparently it depends on the country. It’s 3000 in Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and other countries have other limits. But it’s not surprising this is not a thing in Germany, they really try to push for cash

There’s not a lot of places accepting those currencies. Either take a European currency or US$.

But better to not take cash at all, especially that much. You have to declare it etc. Just pay by card and use ATMs if you really need cash.

It’s illegal to buy anything in cash over 3000 euros

They’re very uncommon. I once got paid cash for fruit picking in France. It was the first and only time I carried 200 euro notes. No shop accepts them. ATMs give out 50 euro notes max.

No, you’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead. Doesn’t mean you have to make shit up. I didn’t say a word at my father’s funeral.

Yeah and I loved it when I was young. We’d always to try not annoy others too much, not to scare animals etc. And great to meet people, the only time the Dutch are a little sociable. I don’t live there now but something seems to have changed in recent years, or maybe it’s because I’m not from a big city

I saw a lot of spent bullets in the streets after NYE in Berlin. Must be a German tradition