It’s fine. Be careful where you go at night. Enjoy the braai. Sometimes there is no water. It eventually comes back. Electricity is ok. Traffic is nuts. The weather is great. Come visit SunEden, you will love it. Braaibroodjies, brandewyn and rugby. Good times! Most people have no job though.
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Thanks for the realistic POV and cross-posting to the ZA comm. I didn't even realize we had that many geography-based comms.
What you and the person there said, that's what I kind of figured, but there's so much "Ahhh!! Crime!!" stuff online that seems overblown. Crumbling infrastructure and zero ability of resources to fix anything seems to be a nearly global problem. I expect it's not going to get better anywhere in the next little while, short of China where they just do whatever.
I just searched for SunEden - lol, I expect that won't go over well with the spouse, but you never know.
Looking forward to some good braai again. The beef there is better than most places, I'm tired of making my own biltong, and kudu is delicious.
Yeah, crime definitely overblown, it can happen, but I’ll take a guess it can happen anywhere if you go looking for it.
3 of the houses on SunEden belongs to German couples, they say it is their escape hatch should things get worse in EU. Makes you think.
Anyway, good luck and I hope you are successfull and happy wherever you decide to go!
Thanks. And people who can find a bubble and leverage income inequality will do a whole lot to stay somewhere where the weather's nice. Considering how many people are desperate to get into the EU, I expect that's a more personal decision.
Til there are not many South Africans on Lemmy
I’m here.
I've seen a few. I was asking them about their language.
I could have sworn I saw someone saying they're in SA a while ago. So maybe there's just 1 and they haven't seen this yet.
It's ZA! Good luck convincing the south Africans though 🤣
I once worked in a company doing business in both SA and ZA, lots of confusion.
Lol. I usually write RSA because so many people not from there would get confused by ZA other than people who have heard so many ads ending in "visit us at (website) dot Co dot zed-a" on the TV and radio. Maybe I overthought it.
And not to worry, I already know my 12 obligatory words in Afrikaans. It's all lekker, Bra.
I'm quite curious on this as well. Lived in Bloem from 2011-2013, everyone loves going on about how bad ZA is ("white genocide"......). Would love to hear from real folk there if it's all hogwash or if there is some grain of truth
We have our problems, but in my experience white genocide is not one of them.
SA is a huge digital nomad hotspot. i haven't been there, but it's a favorite of a lot of nomads. They've all said that it's fast, reliable, a bit pricey on housing but you can work around it, and hella fun. I've never heard anyone complain about it.
Lol. So the military got tired of seeing police getting bribes for every little tiny thing and want their turn to get a cut?