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I like the Canadian plastic money. The only complaint is that when working retail you have to deal with people who fold their bills ot put them in a small wallet, and the bills are so much harder to unfold than paper making them difficult to count.

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I swapped some bills with a Canadian friend when he came to visit. They're nice and space-agey, but I couldn't feel the difference between them and the receipts in my wallet. I'd miss the ability to distinguish between bills and receipts by touch if we ever moved to plastic money.

This raises an interesting point for visually impaired people. Sure, once you separate the banknotes and other paper, UK notes can be differentiated by their dimensions. But it might result in some confusion if similarly sized and textured receipts get mixed in with the banknotes.

The next generation of polymer banknotes in Australia will have a tactile feature to help visually impaired people - see http://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2015/mr-15-02.html

These new tactile notes haven't been released publicly yet.

The Canadian polymer notes have Braille on them to help visually impaired people differentiate.

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