Is it true that anything you buy in another country, you hasve to buy again after you moved back to your homeland?

[funnyjake2011]

Just a price question

[Buenchico]

Er, no.

However if the item was bought outside of a country which shares a 'common trade agreement' with your own country (which in your case means 'outside NAFTA'), you'll probably have to pay local taxes and duties when you import it.

Most countries allow travellers to bring back low-value gifts and souvenirs without paying such taxes. In the UK the limit is currently goods to the value of £135 (= US$212). Thereafter you'll be charged Import Tax and Value Added Tax.

(See my post for Philtaz, on your other thread, for information about the complex calculations which are involved).

Chris

[karenmac60]

See Chris, you put too much work into this. At this time of night an 'uhhhh, dunno' would suffice ;)

[Buenchico]

But then I wouldn't be able to sleep, Karen . . .;-)

[karenmac60]

OCD Chris? ;)

[Buenchico]

Well it's certainly some form of obsession with facts, Karen.

Someone might have stopped me in the street, and asked me for directions, over a quarter of a century ago. I still find myself worrying about whether I gave them the best route. (To the extent of spending hours looking at maps, or even travelling to the other side of the country, from where I now live, to check out the route I offered).

Similarly, I'll hear two people arguing about something on a bus. I'm unlikely to ever see them again (so I can't tell them who was right) but I HAVE to know the answer to their question before I can sleep properly. If it takes me a year to find out, that means a year of disturbed sleep!

[woofgang]

There's a book by Beverley Nichols, one of his gardening series. In it one of the characters, Marius, quotes a line of poetry about picking blue lilies to twine in lute strings. He wonders what the flower was as blue lilies don't exist in nature. I want to say to him it was a lotus that the poet meant and sometimes it drives me crazy that i can't tell this fictional character, out of a book that was written in the 1940's by and author that is long dead, that I know the answer!!

[Buenchico]

Welcome to the club, Woofgang!
;-)

[woofgang]

Proud to be a member Chris...it also annoys me beyond measure that in the Lord of the Rings films, Arwyn gives Aragorn a clear gem when in the books, it was green.