Currency exchange....

[egronvold]

How much did it change? The Norwegian "krone" has changed 30%+ in one year. I'm spending a few days in the US these days, and I can feel that change... Even a BigMac is expensive now

[Northern Farmer]

Originally Posted by egronvold

How much did it change? The Norwegian "krone" has changed 30%+ in one year. I'm spending a few days in the US these days, and I can feel that change... Even a BigMac is expensive now

The canadian dollar now stands at 0.75cents=1us. The us and cdn dollar were relatively Of same value a couple years ago but that all changed over the last few years.

[RCP57]

We've lost about .20 to the greenback in just over a year but our dollar is forecast to continue it's slide to around .70US. It is currently a little less than .76US. Everything here is getting more expensive again, not just hobby parts. It sucks for the most part. It will be interesting to see if our election makes it better or worse.

I was writing this as Brandon posted.lol

[Supermario]

I guess I shouldn't complain too much about the cost of the hobby nowadays. To put things into perspective, if I owned a construction company and wanted to buy a new machine for 300K US , that's just under 400K Canadian!.....now that's a whole lot of suck it up !
the drop in the dollar has definitely had an effect at work. Machine sales have really dried up and not much work in the shop the last few weeks now.