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Brexit ban on EU ID cards ‘disastrous act of economic self-harm’, says tourism boss (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Scottish but have lived in 5 EU countries and 11 cities in the UK. Never have I heard of this, nor experienced it exchanging in country, either direction. I had a decent root about online and only see this discussed anecdotally; mostly in Reddit posts. I can’t say for certain this isn’t happening, but it does sound like an urban myth of sorts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In the country I am originally from the exchange rate is actually different and some exchange offices even refuse to take them. And I also have a friend who lived there and who told me the same story that when traveling he was only taking British pounds with him because of difficulties exchanging the Scottish ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have heard of issues using Scottish and NI money while travelling; they’re less recognisable than Bank of England issued notes. I have just never encountered a variable exchange rate on different issued Sterling notes. Was this an EU country?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it is an EU country, but it was a couple of years ago. So again things might have gotten better and my original statement might be completely wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for more details. I don’t want to say you’re wrong though, I don’t have the data for that, just anectdotally in my experiences, this hasn’t impacted me.