[Foundation-l] Relocation announcement

[Andrew Gray]

On 22/09/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/09/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As a Brit, I'm pleased to see London was considered. Why was it the
> > only non-US city considered, though? I'm also curious as to why you
> > considered San Francisco better than London - to my knowledge, London
> > is a far more international city that San Francisco, which I would
> > think was a major consideration is choosing a base for the WMF.
>
>
> I'm imagining difficulties with the prices. The pound sterling is the
> depleted uranium of currency, and London is expensive even in that
> context. Not to mention in running a US charity from the UK.

Yeah. Financially speaking, moving outside the US would be a big hit
(now and in the near future) simply due to exchange rates, if nothing
else.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk