Yesterday Sydney and I traded money on the "blue" market. (It's not called black here).
If you trade in your cash at the banks they'll give you 5.01 pesos per dollar... but if you go to a "cueva" (which means cave, as if it needed to be any sketchier) you can get over 7 pesos per dollar depending on where you go.
So I asked my host mom for where to go, and yesterday Sydney and I went in this tiny, unlabeled shop with a large man standing outside the door... The inside was actually way less sketchy than I anticipated. They gave us 7.60 pesos per dollar! We checked the bills too, don't worry, they were legit.
We were so proud of ourselves... I mean that's time and a half more bang for your buck.
Look at us figuring things out. How cool are we? :)
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