Only sixty people dead in Sudan? That's actually something of a relief; call me cynical but I feared the elections were going to turn into a bloodbath. Not that sixty dead isn't horrifying enough - I guess we'll see how it all goes as the results come to light...
I've been unpleasantly surprised by how difficult, expensive and/or unpleasant it can be to move money between countries; in contrast to the commenter above we found that most Australian options wanted a flat fee plus a percentage in addition to whatever they were skimming of the often-sizeable buy-sell spread for the currency conversion. We actually considered just moving money into and out of a PayPal account at either end before we found a solution. So you have my sympathy - glad it came together for you in the end, though!
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Date: 2011-01-13 03:38 am (UTC)I've been unpleasantly surprised by how difficult, expensive and/or unpleasant it can be to move money between countries; in contrast to the commenter above we found that most Australian options wanted a flat fee plus a percentage in addition to whatever they were skimming of the often-sizeable buy-sell spread for the currency conversion. We actually considered just moving money into and out of a PayPal account at either end before we found a solution. So you have my sympathy - glad it came together for you in the end, though!