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It depends not on which country is your home but which country offers the best exchange rates.

Since you have not listed either where you live or where you're planning to go we can't give you more specific advice.

But here's some general advice.

Usually the richer a country is, the more expensive money changing is.

Developing countries often want major foreign currencies like USD and EUR and will offer better rates for them than you'll get buying the foreign currency of a developing country in the US or Europe (or Australia or Japan etc).

Places with a black market can sometimes offer even better than official exchange rates for the big currencies so the dodgy money changers on the corner can give better rates than the banks or official money changers. But as they're dodgy know your numbers and don't get scammed!

Another thing to keep in mind is "How exotic is the currency of my destination?" If you're going somewhere with a stable world currency like USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, JPY, etc you can change those pretty easily. If you want something a little more interesting like Albanian leks or Armenian dram you might not be able to change them at home at all but you will certainly be able to when you get there. Especially if your destination country has an expat community in your departure country.

This all of course assumes that you definitely want to phsyically change money. If in fact you really want to know the best way to deal with money issues while travelling, then Gagravarr's answer deals with that more general problem

It depends not on which country is your home but which country offers the best exchange rates.

Since you have not listed either where you live or where you're planning to go we can't give you more specific advice.

But here's some general advice.

Usually the richer a country is, the more expensive money changing is.

Developing countries often want major foreign currencies like USD and EUR and will offer better rates for them than you'll get buying the foreign currency of a developing country in the US or Europe (or Australia or Japan etc).

Places with a black market can sometimes offer even better than official exchange rates for the big currencies so the dodgy money changers on the corner can give better rates than the banks or official money changers. But as they're dodgy know your numbers and don't get scammed!

Another thing to keep in mind is "How exotic is the currency of my destination?" If you're going somewhere with a stable world currency like USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, JPY, etc you can change those pretty easily. If you want something a little more interesting like Albanian leks or Armenian dram you might not be able to change them at home at all but you will certainly be able to when you get there. Especially if your destination country has an expat community in your departure country.

This all of course assumes that you definitely want to phsyically change money. If in fact you really want to know the best way to deal with money issues while travelling, then Gagravarr's answer deals with that more general problem

It depends not on which country is your home but which country offers the best exchange rates.

Since you have not listed either where you live or where you're planning to go we can't give you more specific advice.

But here's some general advice.

Usually the richer a country is, the more expensive money changing is.

Developing countries often want major foreign currencies like USD and EUR and will offer better rates for them than you'll get buying the foreign currency of a developing country in the US or Europe (or Australia or Japan etc).

Places with a black market can sometimes offer even better than official exchange rates for the big currencies so the dodgy money changers on the corner can give better rates than the banks or official money changers. But as their dodgy know your numbers and don't get scammed!

Another thing to keep in mind is "How exotic is the currency of my destination?" If you're going somewhere with a stable world currency like USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, JPY, etc you can change those pretty easily. If you want something a little more interesting like Albanian leks or Armenian dram you might not be able to change them at home at all but you will certainly be able to when you get there. Especially if your destination country has an expat community in your departure country.

This all of course assumes that you definitely want to phsyically change money. If in fact you really want to know the best way to deal with money issues while travelling, then Gagravarr's answer deals with that more general problem

It depends not on which country is your home but which country offers the best exchange rates.

Since you have not listed either where you live or where you're planning to go we can't give you more specific advice.

But here's some general advice.

Usually the richer a country is, the more expensive money changing is.

Developing countries often want major foreign currencies like USD and EUR and will offer better rates for them than you'll get buying the foreign currency of a developing country in the US or Europe (or Australia or Japan etc).

Places with a black market can sometimes offer even better than official exchange rates for the big currencies so the dodgy money changers on the corner can give better rates than the banks or official money changers. But as they're dodgy know your numbers and don't get scammed!

Another thing to keep in mind is "How exotic is the currency of my destination?" If you're going somewhere with a stable world currency like USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, JPY, etc you can change those pretty easily. If you want something a little more interesting like Albanian leks or Armenian dram you might not be able to change them at home at all but you will certainly be able to when you get there. Especially if your destination country has an expat community in your departure country.

This all of course assumes that you definitely want to phsyically change money. If in fact you really want to know the best way to deal with money issues while travelling, then Gagravarr's answer deals with that more general problem

It depends not on which country is your home but which country offers the best exchange rates.

Since you have not listed either where you live or where you're planning to go we can't give you more specific advice.

But here's some general advice.

Usually the richer a country is, the more expensive money changing is.

Developing countries often want major foreign currencies like USD and EUR and will offer better rates for them than you'll get buying the foreign currency of a developing country in the US or Europe (or Australia or Japan etc).

Places with a black market can sometimes offer even better than official exchange rates for the big currencies so the dodgy money changers on the corner can give better rates than the banks or official money changers. But as their dodgy know your numbers and don't get scammed!

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It depends not on which country is your home but which country offers the best exchange rates.

Since you have not listed either where you live or where you're planning to go we can't give you more specific advice.

But here's some general advice.

Usually the richer a country is, the more expensive money changing is.

Developing countries often want major foreign currencies like USD and EUR and will offer better rates for them than you'll get buying the foreign currency of a developing country in the US or Europe (or Australia or Japan etc).

Places with a black market can sometimes offer even better than official exchange rates for the big currencies so the dodgy money changers on the corner can give better rates than the banks or official money changers. But as their dodgy know your numbers and don't get scammed!

Another thing to keep in mind is "How exotic is the currency of my destination?" If you're going somewhere with a stable world currency like USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, JPY, etc you can change those pretty easily. If you want something a little more interesting like Albanian leks or Armenian dram you might not be able to change them at home at all but you will certainly be able to when you get there. Especially if your destination country has an expat community in your departure country.

This all of course assumes that you definitely want to phsyically change money. If in fact you really want to know the best way to deal with money issues while travelling, then Gagravarr's answer deals with that more general problem