Is South Africa EXPENSIVE💰😱? Cost of LIVING in 2021
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Tutor with Cambly
2:37 - Other cost of living videos
3:03 - Accommodation
6:26 - Transportation
7:14 - Phone plans
8:06 - Gym & supplements
9:27 - Entertainment
10:20 - Insurance
11:33 - Utilities
12:00 - Miscellaneous
13:29 - Groceries
15:09 - Visas
15:30 - Totals
16:45 - Comparison to Bali, Indonesia
Ever wondered what things cost in South Africa. Well this video covers everything you need to know about living as a nomad here.
£550 a month for rent. Compared to London, that’s a bloody bargain. Packs bag, catches flight to SA
We are still a developing nation so you might wanna rethink that decision.
London is crazy expensive😥. See you in Cape Town soon!
That's expensive, I could get you a two bedroom, two bathroom place for 8000 ZAR.
R and £ are two different things in R that is alot our petrol and diesel and food prices are insane
@@chantefourie4768 £1.50p a litre for fuel at the moment of here.
I am South African and I have been living in Indonesia for a few years. Back home in South Africa at the moment and I can really say it is much more expensive to live in South Africa than Indonesia. Enjoy watching your channel guys and also proud of you guys.
Yes SA cost of living has gone through the roof. But if you deal in dollars or pounds SA is not a bad place to live.
Awesome video guys thanks for sharing - great collaboration with Cambly - nice!
Thank you so much guys!😁🙏🏻
Thank you for wonderful video! It is really interesting & motivating for travel. Cannot wait when all of us start easily travel again! xx
Wow. Your Cambly insert is excellent. I am going to check it out.
Awesome insight :D Gives a nice idea of how life there could look like
And we haven’t even shown the best parts yet😱😍
I agree that food in South Africa is cheaper than in Indonesia because I have proven it. I am Indonesian, and on Christmas 2013, I was in Nelspruit; foods in restaurants and agricultural products in supermarkets were much cheaper than in Indonesia.
I would really love to visit South Africa one day. Sounds like a very interesting place! Greetings from Indonesia!
Come come come! Makasihhh😊
@@RhettandClaire so would I I'm U.S. as The acomadation are cheap by U.S. Canadian or European standards. And you have the up scale ones. So I have 2 questions #1 do they have places for as low as $10/ night like I had in Central and South America?? ( yes I do realize they wouldn't be glamorous) but do they exist outside the tourist places? And #2 I am guessing that the payphones in South Africa are almost gone??? Am I correct in thinking they'll only be around the airport the bus. station and maybe a shopping center if you're lucky might still have 1 left?? I'm guessing that's the case also... AND I'll say I've witnessed only 3 people use the payphone in the past year and 2 of them were the Amish.. no surprise I guess.. However I am 36 I remember when long distance call from the house phone were $6/ hour. That's pretty much a dull point now.. As I just can't understand why you buy a phone pay the bill yet it doesn't work all over the world. Mine $60/ month. Works in the U.S. and Canada. I don't think my phone would even work in South Africa but if I did I would probably cost me like 25 cents/ minute. So that's like $15/ hour added to my bill.. IF it would even work in the 1st place. I'd hope before 2030 a phone from anywhere will work anywhere for 1 set price. $50 €50 R 800. Phones to work everywhere. Because honestly if they don't I might as well be calling from the house phone as I did as a kid from the standpoint extra money is being charged calling outside the local city. Sorry to be so long and drug out with these questions. I'm just trying to get a good analysis
@@RhettandClaire I will also say as a side note I worked at a large shopping mall 2017 until this covid19 situation. The place was built back in 1983.. they had about 2 dozen payphones back then. When I worked thier 1 was left by the security office. And the rest were made into supply closets. Ya open this up get cleaning supplies. Oh thier use to be a payphone here. Well now it's a closets to get supplies.. go figure.. So ya payphones are almost gone in the U.S. but a few are still around
Thank you ! I currently work from home and was looking into cambly and also visiting SA in July
Amazing video guys. Very interesting info ❤👍
Excellent Video! 👍
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Nice share, Will be waiting for cape town video 😁👍 thanks
Thank you for watching!😁🙏🏻
So looking forward to your Capetown and Johannesburg vlogs. I guessed the cost of living at $1600 a month. Claire, i hope you're feeling better. 😁 South Africa is on our bucket list. Thanks for the
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Wow.thank you both for all the great info
I am glad to see you again. Nice view for south Africa. I think this is nice information.
Thank you for watching 😃🙏🏼
@@RhettandClaire your welcome my friend
Wow just discovered your channel and I love it!!! I'm from Cape Town ♥️♥️♥️
Yay! Thank you!
I didn't think it would be so expensive thanks for sharing.
I've definitley missed you guys! Sorry I haven't been active on youtube for a while, but at least now I have a lot of viodes to catch up on :P
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Nice video guys. I'm from SA but living in the UK at the moment. It's still cheaper than the UK. I think cost of living has gone up throughout the globe. In the UK we are now paying 30% more on fuel compare to the same period last year. Not to mention food, gas, electricity prices which have gone through the roof over the recent months. If you are on the low income you are definitely screwed.
My goodness, it’s the same here. Electricity is set to go up by 20% next month, but there’s load shedding here all the time😭. What is going on in the world?!
Crazy times really!
You guys are the best.
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Very interesting video, South Africa is quite expensive actually 🙈
Right? It’s affordable for foreigners but too expensive for locals🙈
Trust me is not ❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Live in Australia, it’s worse 😂
SA has gotten rediculously expensive though...I left 8 years ago and went back last year for a funeral, I was shocked at how high prices for just basic things had gone up...
I think you spot on. Average comfortable living in SA is 30k pm for 2 or 3 people. We trying to get it down but then you compromise where you live and security
Living in a hotel , complex ,estate or bed and breakfast are safe it's nice if you can get breakfast included
Lovely video, any plans of creating one for 2023?
Very informative. Am I right in that I recognize my old complex in Melrose Estate? 😂
Other provinces are more expensive than others. Eg western cape, gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal
If you earn a salary of R45 000 per month you can live in Johannesburg the upmarket areas Centurion , Midrand , Sandton. Fourways lonehill near Montecasino good areas. Nice estates
That's about $2,500? Might I live 3 months of the Northern hemisphere winter and celebrate New Years outside the U.S. something to contemplating. Thus far I've traveled through the western hemisphere Latin America and the Caribbean. This covid19 situation has delayed my travels across the ocean. I DID however after loosing my job get a different job unrelated to what I was doing before. And pays slightly better. Granted I'm saving up. As I hope to do more travels before I'm 40. I'm 36 now. Never been married no kids. Just think 2025/2026 I'm thinking do I want to spend New Years elsewhere.. as my past travels were oftentimes done in the northern hemisphere summer months. Well currently is when I make my money. I live in Florida full-time but 1/2 the year I'm working up in Alaska. That's my primary job. Granted well despite a run down of my life in recent past.. I can say I'd still contemplate opting for cheap places in South Africa. However what you've described is in reach.. You've given me something to think about
I would like to visit South Africa again. It's been 40 years since i lived their. My concern is safety. Otherwise I would have gone earlier.
Cape Town is pretty darn safe, can’t say the same for Johannesburg though😢
@@RhettandClaire I lived in Cape town in Bothasig,& Monte vista. Left in 1982.
I think why the cost of eating is higher in Bali than South Africa, because you are a resident of South Africa and when you are in Bali, you will definitely want to try various foods there ( this is about the number of variations of your food per month ), thank you for sharing the info with us 😊
Nice ...
Thank you!😊
Damn, I'm out of touch with SA living expenses but this is more than I expected.
Same for us! Most of our friends said that our expenses were very low compared to them though😱
Barber cost for man is 100 TL per haircut. Best places to pass your holidays in Turkey are Kemer Antalya, Side Manavgat Antalya, Kusadasi Guzelcamli , Pamucak 5 star hotels of İzmir Aydin, Selcuk city of İzmir. Edremit Ayvalik Akcay Balikesir, Samsun Sheraton Hotel, Bodrum Mugla , Fethiye Mugla. Turkey has built 600 water dams and many solar energies to get energy. No energy cuts can be seen while in Turkey. No visas needed from South Africans while in Turkey 30 days holiday. Roads are at best standards right now. There is no nuclear facility in Turkey, very envionment friendly country. Most advanced places of Turkey are trachian side of the country with Beylikduzu, Esenyurt, Bahcesehir , Basaksehir, Avcilar districts of Istanbul nearby the Greece , just 250 kms to the greek customs, Corlu, Tekirdag, Silivri, Marmara Ereglisi, Gelibolu, İtalian Plage Seashore
I actually 1800 usd is a good price for 2 people in south Africa. Atm we are a family of 3 paying around 3100 usd in South Africa monthly
Shocked that you did not cover Durban. Studies there and Cape Town and think it is far better than Cape Town or Johannesburg, in my humble view…
We haven’t stayed in Durban as digital nomads yet😊
Yes Durban is cheaper compare to JHB or CPT
@@RhettandClaire you Should😋🤷♂️😁
Hi I’m South African and I’m watching from New York .. it’s hard to believe that entertainment only cost you “R1.150 for the month “ .
Digital nomads, interesting idea if no younger children and dependent on your line of work
14:16 damn i thought i was seeing an indonesian flag there, but then i zoomed in and found out that it was actually a netherland flag which made me somewhat mad cause netherland was indonesia's colonizer for 350 years 😒
fun fact tho, indonesian flag was red and white, cause the heroes back then climb up the flag pool of the netherland's flag to tear off the blue part of it, and voila we got our red and white indonesian flag. and fyi in the process of tearing off the blue part of the netherland's flag, the indonesian heroes were shot by the netherland soldiers while climbing up the flag pool, so imagine how many indonesians were shot just to fight for our national flag 😭
I'm a South African living in Chile with a TEFL certificate. Is Cambly specifically for South Africa or do they recruit from anywhere?
They recruit from anywhere☺️
@@RhettandClaire thank you
Mantap
Makasihhhh🙏🏻
Prices are 100% correct
I'm guessing they payphones in South Africa are like in the U.S. almost gone except at the airport and transit centers. Is that correct??
Correct😊. We use WhatsApp on our phones to make international calls
@@RhettandClaire well my internet doesn't work if my phone doesn't. I have 3 friends of that thing. 1 in the U.S. 1 in Jamaica and 1 in the Domican Republic. I can also call people on the Facebook messenger. Which a couple of my European friends I do. I've directly called Portugal twice. Called him on his mother's house phone. That cost me 25 cents/ minute. But if I have no phone then I have no internet either. As so I can't make or receive calls of any kind. Think about this.. if you're standing next to me in the same room in the U.S. I call you.. it cost 25 cents a minute. ( Granted that's assuming your phone will even be able to except the call) if not still cost me 25 cents for your voice-mail to pick up. And we're standing next to each other in the same room.. Now I call my sister several states away whether we talk for 2 minutes or we talk for 2 days straight until we both fall over from sleep depervation it's still the same price. Just pay my $60/ month phone bill.. When I lay it out that way.. that makes absolutely no damn sense. You pay the phone bill you expect to be able to use the phone right???. I HOPE that will be the case very soon. Like before 2025... I mean who cares if I'm in the U.S. South Africa France.. ware ever I'm paying the phone bill to have a phone... and yet is that such the case. And as mentioned if this were 1995 it would cost me $6/ hour to call another U.S. state on a house phone. However it's not 1995 it's 2022. I guess thors of us old enough to remember that.. are really saying... okay.... why??? Most everyone has a cell phone now. Cool I can call the U.S. and Canada.. I paid the bill.. well then why the hell should I pay another bill if I'm anywhere elsewhere????? It's not 1995. The phone is carried with me. Not plugged into the wall at the house. However unfortunately if I am to travel international with the exception of Canada it might as well be... As let's hope that's no longer the case within the next 3 years
@@RhettandClaire and I'm 36. So I'm not really that old. The last generation to grow up before cell phones came into everybody's life. And the way I perceived it as I explained is what good are they really if they are next to useless when you go international???. I mean I know how to buy a calling card and use it from a payphone or land-line. Granted only a select few places sell thoes types of calling cards anymore. And once you do get one. Better find somebody's home or a place of business that will let you use their land line if you can't find a payphone. Oh that's right.. you have a hard time finding a payphone anymore.... um... ya you might as well not even have a cell phone in the 1st place if it's not a working cell phone.. so if the world has come to nearly everybody having a cell phone. Then it needs to come to people having a cell phone that will work.. we as society of plant earth need to get that taken care of.
I live in Kempton Park
😎😎 keren
is it safe there? From what i read. SA is quite dangerous.
Yes, Cape Town is totally safe. The local government invest a lot into the safety of tourists and residents in Cape Town. Johannesburg is starting to get a bit dangerous now because of the pandemic but it really really does depend on which areas you’re in.😊
Yes, SA is safe.. There is a bit of crime like all other countries.. Don't believe everything you read on the media
This question is so out there Europe and America are also very unsafe but you never here are they safe when traveling there I wonder why that is😑
@@thabanimahlaba9769 crime is overall much lower in Europe and the US. South Africa is great but it requires a different way of living.
Is the total for you both together or one person? :)
Together😁
Next destination must be Nelspruit please
Sure! What should we do in Nelspruit?😁
Hallo Iam from INA
Any chance of an Eastern Cape video soon?
We’d love that! Any ideas on where we should visit?😁
@@RhettandClaire Perhaps the Wild Coast, Coffee Bay, Knysna? Or even some of the rumoured hippie enclaves out there which we always hear about but rarely see footage of.
I'm a Pretorian thats never been to the EC so your footage would likely inform my decision on where to go over there during 2022.
@@donmeow we’ll put a trip together soon. Thank you bru!😁
@@donmeow I'm from the Eastern Cape, there are so many hidden gems. Like Imbotyi, Port St John's etc..
though i believe you eat like a king on bali with $699 than $609 on SA 🤣.
Same same☺️
Are you not making anymore Bali content?
We are😊
@@RhettandClaire can you please tell me what type of Visa you have? I can’t seem to visit Bali with a tourist visa anymore
@@chiyopipi5672 there are no tourist visas. You have to get a B211 business visa or a Kitas😊
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Is that the gym you use?😁
@@RhettandClaire it's been the most recommended when I visit SA!
What missing here is legal items around tax law if you living in South Africa and earning an income then you subjected to tax in South Africa. It would be good for you to produce a video segment on how you handle tax law across multiple countries as you work given you compare Bali vs SA.
550.
Choose Cape Town 😉✅
Always😍
Ok All good but You need to make Video that why You say All is good
I feel like you guys are living way too affordably
For sure. If you live in South Africa full time paying for a car, insurance, medical aid, rent, electricity etc it’s way more expensive🙈
That's a month's rent in NYC 😮
I know right😂
@@RhettandClaire I'm praying my guy and I can move there by next year 🙏🏼
Way cheaper than Southern California
Oh definitely🙌🏻
@@RhettandClaire good video lots of information and not all ego "look at me with my bif in SA"
where's the comparisons?
At the end of the video…
R20000 per month
Less than that and you will start to struggle to maintain a normal standard of life in South Africa 🇿🇦. I live in Pretoria just north of Johannesburg.
@@DAVID1986. yes. Less than that and you will not be able to afford you're own car and pay rent.
Cheaper than US!
Of course!
This just feel like one big advert
South Africa's currency is weak the cost of living is so expensive cloths and takkies or a phone can cost your entire pay check for just 1 of those items 1 American dollar is R18 1 pound is R23+ foreigners can come to our country and take advantage with thier strong currency
Is it any safe for non whites
Yes, but women have a hard time regardless of their race. It just depends on which part of the country you’re in
@@RhettandClaire ok
Tks
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Thanks for info, I will look into this.
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@@makgabomahopo when did you apply?
@@ibaltawaqal2148 no
expensive
🤣Neva da West is crazy
What west?😊
Of cost S.A is expensive, in fact it's very expensive because you could lose your life with all the muggings, stabbings, home invasions, robberies, rape and murders that happen there, I've been to Durban, Port Elizabeth & Cape Town and all three places give me the chills
Where are you from Fugly?😊
@@RhettandClaire I sense this character is trolling
All's good you still alive, can't be that dangerous
Where are you from this video is awesome South Africa is absolutely breath taking yes it is a bit expensive that is ok. Dangerous no bro it is dangerous everywhere I'have traveled is is one of the wonders of the world its beautiful. thanks guys 👍 Cape Town is no.1
Proud South African
Wow. Your Cambly insert is excellent. I am going to check it out.