Picturing my tiny local bank dealing with international currency, heh.
I do have a Cap1 account (for a variety of fundraising reasons) and they happily converted pound notes into dollars. (Tom's dad gave us cash to help with the funeral expenses while we were over there.)
I bet Cap1 can help you, Nora. I think they've sent me information about making international transfers easier recently, though it was not immediately relevant to me so I didn't retain anything.
Localistas, they're closing the Michigan Ave onramp to LSD at Oak Street today until mid-November: [link]
While I was in the US, I received money from Australia on occasion, both as direct transfers and as cheques in Australian dollars. The only problem I had with it was that in Australia, double-crossing a cheque means "not negotiable", i.e. can't be cashed, must be deposited; while in the US it means "cancelled". The city branch refused even to try presenting the cheques; I had to deposit them at the branch near our home (who had no problem with any of it). I don't recall if there was any kind of currency conversion fee.
Localistas, they're closing the Michigan Ave onramp to LSD at Oak Street today until mid-November: [link]
Oh man. Oh man. I'm so glad I don't go that way anymore.
Wow, so Bob's place has been on the market for a week and there was already an offer on it. Kind of ridiculously low, but still when it was on the market before (2009/2010) it didn't get a single offer. I hope this is not a fluke!
I'm so glad to hear Scrappy's Mom's news -- needed something good today. Found out that my contract job ends Nov 1st-ish, instead of another 3 month extension due to budgetary cutbacks, et cetera.
It's not like I wanted this for a Forever Job (not that they have those any more) but it would have been nice to avoid the stress of job-searching and the uncertainty thereof for a couple more months right now. So I'm a bit situationally depressed much more than I would otherwise have been, I guess.
Yay for Mom of Scrappy!
lisah, probably not a fluke since mortgage rates are so incredibly low. It's why we're buying a new house and why we expect to have this one sold in less than two weeks.
I'm sorry, Theo. That's a gut-punch. Sending you speedy finding next gig, and may it be awesome in every way you want it to be.