This is how many dollars you can buy with one pound. It's been $2 for £1 most of the time we've been here, but in the last month or two its dropped fast to $1.50 for £1. Someone at work helpfully pointed out that my salary is now worth 25% less!
If things keep going this way, I'm doing my Christmas shopping here!
Also: It started snowing here! With no Halloween or Thanksgiving in this country to divide up the rest of the year, the relentless march of Christmas season is here earlier than ever!
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Then again, if you have any money left in an American account, you could start furiously withdrawing it in the UK from an ATM, hang onto it until a time when the dollar weakens again, and then change it back over and net a little extra something.
Some people do that for a living. When I was an undergraduate, I asked my roommate, who was an economics major about it, and he verified that some people's whole job is just to trade currencies. At the time I thought it was amazing and a bit unseemly - some kind of spinning money out of the air. No actual productive work involved.
Of course, we would be doing it right now, if only we had the money. I don't think it'll be too worthwhile for me :(
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