Can I take my own money across the border? Sort of, when I was a kid, one could sell his own house and take all the money to Mexico, and retire.
A few years back, when we all became suspected drug runners, congress decided I could only take $10,000 out of the country without jumping through major hoops.
Last I heard it's down to $5,000.
Now, if I sell my house in California, and take that cash with me on a drive to set up my new life in, say, Georgia, and any podunk cop pulls me over for "Driving with out-of-state plates" his little Podunk PD can confiscate all that money and the car because simply having that much cash is prima facie evidence that it's drug money.
Of course, I can fight them in court, and with luck in 5 or 10 years I'll get my car and money back, less legal costs, and without interest.
Yeah, I'm a whole lot freer than my parents were.
That’s why you should have it converted to a bank certified check in your name.
I agree about the cash-movement complaint you have — not that it has anything to do with what we’re talking about.
>> Yeah, I’m a whole lot freer than my parents were.
I didn’t say you were freer. I said the particular change of vernacular that you anecdotally cited (”Hey — nobody says, ‘its a free country’ when I ask if I can sit down!”) wasn’t useful evidence that you’re less free.
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It's still a $10,000 and there are no major hoops, just 1 simple form.