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by renewiltord 501 days ago
Bro you try doing this in these places. In Sri Lanka during their civil war when I was there you couldn’t convert INR or USD to LKR for any reasonable exchange rate anywhere except for the shady black market currency exchange, e.g. on the (aptly named) Front Street in Colombo.

It’s like asking why don’t you just buy 2CB from the store instead of online on the dark web.

And the additional problem is that once you leave that location everyone knows you’re carrying around proper bills of whatever currency. Asking for trouble, mate.