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I come from the UK where not accepting cash is only ok in hipster areas of London (or, was at the time). When I joined my gamedev studio I had colleagues askin
by dijit 1y ago
I come from the UK where not accepting cash is only ok in hipster areas of London (or, was at the time).
When I joined my gamedev studio I had colleagues asking me why I had cash, and many of them didn’t even recognise what it looked like (there was a switchover of the notes a year or two prior).
There was an insinuation that I would use it for drugs. So, I suspect that the parent is right here.
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- dhosek 1y agoIn my experience the opposite is true.
- daneel_w 1y agoNatives asking why someone has cash, and not even recognizing bank notes...? It sounds so absurd that I'm certain you're exaggerating wildly. If not, you've had an outlier experience during a limited window of time in the country. Just like the parent. This isn't really representative. Add.: another poster suggested that someone had a bit of a laugh with you by saying it, which is also entirely possible. Basic joke.
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- victorbjorklund 1y agoI'm Swedish I honestly havent seen the new banknotes (other than on images on the internet).
- 1313ed01 1y agoI carry a few in my wallet, just in case, but I could honestly not tell what color the different notes are or what portrait is on each without looking. Bad forgeries would easily trick me.
- gambiting 1y agoI'm in the UK and I have friends who will tell you hand on heart that they have never handled a £50 note. They know they exist but they haven't had one.
- HWR_14 1y agoIs that just because it's an unpopular bill? Most Americans have probably never used a $50 bill either.
- schoen 1y agoNot once in their entire lives?
- hattmall 1y agoI'm not even sure if that I knew there was a $50 bill. And that's as an American of 30+ years that uses cash routinely. Multiple times I've cashed checks and gotten it all in 2's, but honestly can't ever remember a $50 bill. I always have at least one $100 bill in my wallet and don't ever recall getting a $50 in change, has to be the least common note. But now I'm thinking waaaaay back and does the President on it have a big mustache? Time to see what a $50 looks like.
- schoen 1y agoWell, I suspect the notes larger than $100 (which are no longer being printed!) are even rarer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-hundred-dollar_bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-hundred-dol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one-thousand-dollar_bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one-thousand-dol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-thousand-dollar_bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-thousand-do... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ten-thousand-dollar_bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ten-thousand-dol...
- dgfitz 1y agoIt would be a "unique" situation. Most AMTs (not all, but most) only dispense $20 bills, the rarer ones will dispense $5s or $10s, and they're rare enough that I make a note of them. I have never encountered an ATM that gives a $50. Your best bet of happening into a $50 is if you go to a bank for an in-person withdraw and they ask you for preferred denominations. Generally the money is dispensed in $20s even there unless specified. Your second best bet would be if you're selling something "on the side" and the purchaser uses a $50 in a transaction, which I would say is also rare these days, most people use Venmo or equiv. Your best bet of handling a $50 is probably as a bartender, or of course as a bank teller. I have held $50s a few times in my life, and even my reaction is "huh, a $50, don't see those often"
- renhanxue 1y agoI am Swedish and have lived here all my life and I have no idea what the current banknotes look like. I have literally never used them. I remember what they used to look like 20 years ago, but I know they have changed since then.
- daneel_w 1y ago...and you would immediately know a Swedish bank note two seconds after seeing one.
- Symbiote 1y agoI've had young (ish, 25 say) Danes say they'd never seen the most recent design of 500DKK notes before. Many more hadn't seen the 1000DKK, though that's since been withdrawn from use. I believe them. Cash machines dispense(d) them, but usually only if you withdraw 1000DKK or more in a single transaction. That's unusual for people that rarely use cash. I had them as I was following the official advice to keep some cash around in case the banking system is hacked etc, but I spent them and withdrew 100DKK notes when the advice was updated to point out that if everyone had only 500DKKs at home it wasn't very flexible. I am slightly ashamed to realise that my banking app shows I haven't made a cash withdrawal in Denmark for more than 12 months — the second part of the official advice is to use cash occasionally to keep that system working.
- eigart 1y agoYour suspicion is wrong.
- dijit 1y agowhat a fantastically useless comment. No insight provided nor sources. Just an opinion, a strong assertion, confidently stated with a tone of superiority.
- rounce 1y agoSounds like they were pulling your leg.
- bowsamic 1y agoI’m British and definitely not. I only saw the new notes because I went out of my way to find them
- maccard 1y agothis is definitely more widepsread than you imagine in the UK. Most major cities are heading in the cashless direction - the only time I use cash is for my window cleaner.