My immediate thought was "personally, I have the opposite problem", but the things in my life it reminded me of aren't really opposites.
("I, a Canadian, am negotiating with a Canadian company for access to a Canadian VPN server: *why is this transaction in USD*")
("I hate that I am being forced to convert CAD (and take the exchange-fee hit) to pay for this peanut butter when there are perfectly good U.S. dollars in my Paypal account")
([in general, a lot of time and effort poured into finding ways to turn USD-denominated menial-Internet-labour payouts into something useful as efficiently as possible, and often failing. on multiple occasions I bought an iPad from amazon.com and then turned around and sold it on Craigslist-type sites for 90% value, because every other use for Amazon-US credit was even worse. toyed with using an Amazon-bitcoin exchange sometimes used by people looking to launder the proceeds of stolen credit cards, but bitcoin transaction fees are insane and even if they weren't you only got like 85% value there, worse than iPads.])
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So yeah, not really opposites even in terms of exchange rates (and I expect you're mostly talking cost of living)--indeed, I have been known to willingly choose payment in USD over CAD, because they offered me CAD at parity and haha fuck that--but I have nevertheless developed an instinctive flinch at the idea of involving USD in a transaction.
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Date: 2019-08-04 09:36 pm (UTC)("I, a Canadian, am negotiating with a Canadian company for access to a Canadian VPN server: *why is this transaction in USD*")
("I hate that I am being forced to convert CAD (and take the exchange-fee hit) to pay for this peanut butter when there are perfectly good U.S. dollars in my Paypal account")
([in general, a lot of time and effort poured into finding ways to turn USD-denominated menial-Internet-labour payouts into something useful as efficiently as possible, and often failing. on multiple occasions I bought an iPad from amazon.com and then turned around and sold it on Craigslist-type sites for 90% value, because every other use for Amazon-US credit was even worse. toyed with using an Amazon-bitcoin exchange sometimes used by people looking to launder the proceeds of stolen credit cards, but bitcoin transaction fees are insane and even if they weren't you only got like 85% value there, worse than iPads.])
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So yeah, not really opposites even in terms of exchange rates (and I expect you're mostly talking cost of living)--indeed, I have been known to willingly choose payment in USD over CAD, because they offered me CAD at parity and haha fuck that--but I have nevertheless developed an instinctive flinch at the idea of involving USD in a transaction.