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car insurance in USA 17-Jan-2010 At 3:56:23 PM Neil

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I have done the US road trip thing too. We got a car in California which was probably a mistake - they were in general more expensive to buy/sell than anywhere else in the US due to smog laws etc (in 2007). We had an Australian and an international license, no probs there.

Insurance was easy too, through a broker. Cost was the same as i pay in Australia and not overly expensive or anything. You do need a US address but you can probably use the car yard address if you buy one from a yard.

Over 6 months it was cheaper to buy and sell a car than hire. But it was a bit stressful and took longer than we wanted to buy one at the beginning. Selling... we were just lucky and sold it hours after posting on craigslist.com.

I am planning to do something similar this year starting in Canada.
If anyone has any advice wrt buying / selling cars and insurance in Canada it would be welcome. Is canadian insurance fine for driving in the US ?