100%. I'm originally English and came to SA when I was 6 and stayed for 25 years. I then lived in the USA for 14 years returning back to SA 10 years ago. Without a doubt, this is my favorite place to live. I've traveled extensively to many different countries, staying in each 2 to 3 months at a time. The more you travel the more you realize that everywhere has tradeoffs. You can recite murder stats etc as much as you like but the heart wants what the heart wants. I love South Africa!
Came back to South Africa after a month on vacation in Germany some years back. The smile on the petrol attendant's face at the garage in my residential area made me realize how much I missed South Africa in that short period, and how special and unique our people are! ❤❤❤
I'm a born Englishman living in South Africa for the past 43 years and could never understand why anyone would want to leave this great country for the dollar Euro or Pound... Watching the tide turn is heart warming for me as my kids are born South Africans 👍
I've been telling people this same thing..... later we see them crying to home to the same shitty "South Africa"..... Im glad i never left and will never leave.🇿🇦
I’m English but have lived in Jozi for 25 years now. Can’t imagine living anywhere else… the best place for so many reasons, some tangible and some not so much.
Amen brother, you and me both! I’m a Pom Saffa Durban boy too, well travelled, South Africa is home! Traveled the US, Australia, Kiwi, Britain…all have their problems. We are blessed 🙏🏻🇿🇦❤💪😎🏉☀️🍺👍
Agree totally. So well put. We just got back from 3 weeks in France. Outrageous prices and really lousy service…sometime nonexistent service. A great feeling to be back.
Welcome to South Africa. May our hills and mountains, the ocean and its waves; the land with its flora and fauna, bless you. May our people embrace you. May you encounter the smiles, warmth and diversity of our Tribes. You've added another tribal dimension to this beautiful nation. We have 22 foundational Tribes. Here's a breakdown below. We have 6 caucasian Tribes: English; Portuguese; Italian; Jewish; Afrikaner; Greek. We have 4 Asian tribes: Chinese, Indian (3 clans) viz. Northern India Muslims, Southern India, Hindu/Tamil and Seikh. We have 11 native tribes: Zulu; Xhosa; Khoi; San; Nama; Ndebele; Swati; Pedis; Tsonga; Venda; Sothos. I pray you always be safe in South Africa, your new home.❤😊💜🇿🇦❤🇺🇸
I agree with you, our people are so special. When I go for walks, every person I came across greets me.....a little bit less in Kwazulu Natal...The Zulus are not as outgoing as the Tswanas in Pretoria! You will not experience warmth in any other country as in South Africa.
South Africans take the friendly, warm and kindness for granted. In other countries you feel along while being around thousands of people. The only other country that I would live in apart from South Africa is Japan, I fell in love with it when I visited there 10 years ago. I stayed for a month, and it was amazing.
Welcome we love you all, we just lack credible leaders who can take this country where it belongs. My hope is in the Almighty who always intervene when things go really bad. We have craziest people here.
Mate, I agree with you. I'm South African / Canadian. I've lived in the UK, West Germany (when it was west and east), Rhodesia (before it became Zimbabwe) South Africa and Canada. Yes South Africa has its problems like an incompetent and corrupt Gov institutions and there are reasons for that. But in Canada, at least under the Chairman Blackface Trudeau Gov there is incompetence and also massive corruption. The incompetence and corruption there is INTENTIONAL. And as you say, the weather sucks. Sure there is nice scenery but you have that in SA as well. In Canada, like SA the cost of living is high but the standard of living I just find that the way of life in SA is more lay back.
Good for you. So long as you don't secretly have this longing to see things go south in SA, just so that you feel better for making the decision to leave. But I am confident of better sentiments on your part.
I sort of understand people who left from 1994- 2008, things where kinda weird and the west was doing just fine. Right now, unless you have a great once in a lifetime job offer there is no point leaving. Imagine paying 40k a month for some crap flat in the UK
Welcome back brother 🤜🏾🤛🏾 We're unique people we have whites that they speak our languages❤❤❤🇿🇦🙌🏾 I laugh so hard when Africans brag that they were born in USA or Europe 🙄🤣🤣🤣 I can't see myself in any country rather than SA❤️❤️❤️🇿🇦🙌🏾🫶🏾🙏🏾 Many Africans think that they are French, Spanish and Portuguese 😢
Nice to hear some positive words about a country that’s been poorly represented over the years.. Johannesburg used to be pretty bad for violent crime and car jacking seemed to be the normal i dont know if that’s changed over time and the South African farmers where being targeted to be tortured and murdered which puts most people off wanting to move to live there.. The uk crime rates are through the roof now and tbf its becoming more unsafe to live here by the day.. I lived in sa back in the 70’s apartheid era as a child and we where only there whilst my dad was working on contract there and came back when it finished but I do recall our parents having many friends whilst we where there and ive always thought about visiting again just to see what it’s like now 50 years on.. Nice to hear this though and good that your happy back home again
If you don't have a skill or trade, South Africa sadly isn't a great place to live. Employment opportunities are limited, so you're stuck in a rut unless you have a family with money or know people that do. The UK accepted me, unskilled, but with a great work ethic, they trained me up and gave me everything I now have. So for me, I absolutely love living here and will never leave - but Cape Town will always be in my heart and love visiting. The UK is more than London, people! 🇿🇦
Whenever i see people migrating for other countries, I am filled with envy. Always wishing I had the same opportunities but when you hear stories of them after migrating you begin to feel like it’s better in South Africa. Obviously this is not the same for everyone. Some people find peace when they left. Others not. But in all of that I have come to accept that I love this country beyond everything else that is out there. I really hope that things will slowly turn around for the better. All we need is a stable government and to root out crime and corruption. We have the potential but greedy politicians are the biggest challenge. I am glad others like you feel the same. I thought I was being blinded by my loyalty to SA 😂❤
Don't be, I'm English my wife's Capetonian we lived in CT for 14 years but out of necessity we had to move back to the UK. We miss SA every day. I'm still trying to work out how we can come back
Rather live life than live in a fear. Interesting perspective as I know many South African's beaten up in london. Again be careful of what you think it is like somewhere else.
I am a born Brit lived in SA for 42 years. My daughter and I decided to go back to the UK we was there 3years it was really nice being back with relatives but things didn't work out for us so we are back in SA. The weather isn't as nice as SA but, when I was a child Britain had really nice hot summers. It all changed in the 1960's when it did nothing but rain. I guess it's climate change. You can't beat SA.
Back home and loving it. Lived in the UK for 8 years made some money but it sucks and even more today. Lived in Aus for 20 years made loads of money but what a bunch of loosers. Love South Africa and the people. 🙏🙏🙏🇿🇦
SA has great potential. We just need to educate the majority of citizens, that staying stuck in the past is not going to take the country forward. Those politicians who like using race/hatred are doing so to stay relevant, remain in power and enrich themselves: while the majority can't afford to keep their lights on or have afford a decent meal for their families.
I wish I could share your optimism man. Things in Pretoria are looking dire now. But to add to that, my best friend recently moved to Canada and he’s not much happier there.
Thank you for loving South Africa. We appreciate, but don’t forget, like any other country we have our issues as well. I just want to warn you about crime. Be careful, don’t be at the wrong place at the wrong time. People have no jobs, and as a result we experience a lot of crime. Other than that we enjoy the Country as well. Even APARTHEID ISSUES ARE MINIMAL. Don’t even trust uber and volt these days. You better hire a shuttle. Don’t carry any waist bag for your belongings in the city centre. You better use malls outside the city centre. Enjoy.🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦👏👏👏
Baie lekker. Me and my family are thinking about emigrating due to the wars etc. We're a half Swedish and half English family (I'm none white, was adopted)
@@ianmiles2505 my husband is English and I'm Swedish, adopted from Thailand, but I don't speak the language. I guess, you're not South African then 😂😂😂 Jy taal est baie kak!
@@Darkangel-A-c8z what wars? FYI: my spouse is Swedish and he's lived here in South Africa for twenty two years. By the way, why are you trying to type something in Afrikaans to someone whose user name is clearly English? And stop insulting my mother tongue! By finding your roots, the person meant that you should decide on where you truly feel at home. I'm half Czech, but I was born and raised here in South Africa and I do not feel my Eastern European roots. I'm 100% proudly South African!
@@maruskaehrensdorfer 🤔🤔🤔the war between Russia and Ukraine for a start and the war between Israel and Palestine. I know, you live in South Africa, but I didn't realise that you've been living under a rock as well. Ek bien baie gatvol met jou taal
@@ianmiles2505 now I know, why everyone hated your kind. Stoo acting like a subhuman low life scum, aan ek bien baie gatvol met jou taal. Mijn ex bf waar als Suid Afrika aan hey waar een blanke Suid Afrikaaner. By the likes of you, and by the way you just spoke to me, I've got no pity for you, you're a minority, remember that!
I was born in the UK, i have worked in the UK. I have been in SA most of my life though and while there are nice things about the UK, it would be silly to say there aren't, the weather is a big turn off. I love the history in the UK, that is great, and the ease of getting stuff done. The people are also very friendly and the country is beautiful. But SA has a more dynamic feel about it. It could be for reasons that are not the greatest in some cases and the ANC government is somewhat less than fantastic (thats a long way of saying its cr@p) but I feelfar more alive in SA and lets face it the weather in JHB is far better than in the UK.
Foreign Europeans and Americans who have been living in South Africa (Cape Town and JHB) for years when i asked them why did they decided to make Africa (South Africa) their home they always give me similar answers and that is everytime they take a trip back home (US/UK/Europe) it gives them more justification and reason why they decided to make South Africa home..they say the moment you land at JFK/Heathrow people are just cold and unwelcoming,the moment you leave the airport you just see how homelessness,narcotics,politics,illegal immigration etc etc etc has screwed the country..
Comfort is a relative concept but to give you an idea. The poorest person in South Africa receives a free 3 bedroom house with a shower. A social welfare cheque every month. Free education for their kids. Subsidised electricity and public transport. 100% financial aid for all your kids at university. Free healthcare in all public hospitals and clinics. Two free meals for their kids at their schools. Subsided water. Just to mention a few. The best way I define standards of living between countries is to look at the value proposition for the poor. This is because the middle class is the middle class. The middle class in SA is exposed to the same things that the middle class in the US or UK are. Private healthcare, private schools for kids, Credit, world class infrastructure and organic food. The poor in SA however even have cable TV. So yeah comfort in South Africa exists. The higher you are in the tax bracket, the more comfortable you are. Middle class Americans and Brits who move to SA live like Kings because of the offering the country presents.
@@luthovellem865 Clearly you don’t actually live in SA! 75% of South African workers earn less than R6,000 per month. That’s if you have a job, because the unemployment rate is about 40% This monthly social grant you talk about is for unemployed workers and is only R370 per month. To qualify you may not have any other source of income. To put that amount into perspective, a Big Mac burger costs about R31 and a Big Mac meal about R40. The old age monthly grant is about R2,200 a month. Child grants are R530 monthly. There are waiting lists for government housing and it can take you years to get a small 2 roomed house with indoor plumbing. Lots of poor people live in shacks without indoor plumbing. Free basic education applies if you’re very poor. However, the standard of education in these schools is very low and you can have 50 to 60 kids in a class. Yes, healthcare is free for children, the unemployed and the elderly. Others pay a small amount. That said, the medical care in government hospitals is so poor that those that can afford it pay for private healthcare. Government hospitals are rundown, ill equipped and understaffed. South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. To give you an idea, the median salary is about R5,500 per month, but the average salary is about R27,000. 7 million taxpayers support almost 28 million people on social grants. (There are about 62 million people in SA) The tax threshold is about R8,000 per month, so most people don’t pay personal income tax because they don’t earn enough. That is the situation in South Africa for a poor person. As a middle class South African I can tell you that it’s a great place to live. The country is beautiful with stunning scenery, and amazing beaches. Our wildlife and game parks are legendary. I live in Cape Town which is arguably one of the best cities in the world! Now, reality check… You will need to pay for private medical aid and private schooling. You’ll also need private security for your home. Bottom line, I love living in South Africa, it’s an amazing country, but I wouldn’t like living here if I were poor, that’s for sure!
I can' t wait to come home. The conformity and nonsense in the other anglophone countries just irritates me. The smugness and the dullness of where I am is just too stultifying. In SA people say what they think and they're straightforward and they don't get offended at he drop of a hat. Not the woke hell of where I am now, can't stand it.
Voluntarily living in a failed state, I respect the hustle... 😀 You can say what you want about US and England having their problems, but at least have electricity 24/7.
So you're not aware of the rolling blackouts in Maine, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida in the U.S.? At least here I don't have to worry about mass shootings like they do in the U.S. because you can basically buy guns in supermarkets over there and nut cases have access to assault rifles. Even England suffers terribly when there are snow storms and other natural disasters with severe blackouts and a lack of access to services etc. The English don't even know how to cope with snow. No wonder everyone looks so miserable all the time with the crap weather there! And the crime and riots in the U.K. are out of control. Good luck over there with that while I will happily live in our "failed state"! 😉😊
@@thetad1242 it's like that in every other country. They list the airport as being in a city, but they always build the airports outside the cities in an industrial area/relatively far removed from the actual city.
Wouldn't like to tell you what recently happened to an English guy and is wife down in Robertson on a small holding , horrific is putting it mildly. S.A. probably the most unsafe place in the world.
@collin5777 and in America people are shot on a weekly basis, usually in mass shootings. In the U.K. there are stabbings and riots. I feel much safer here, thanks.
It is your choice. But you have a choice, you have open doors to go when things go sour. Western civilization is failing and there are not many places that offer better currently, which interestingly makes SA looks top in the sh1t pile.
100%. I'm originally English and came to SA when I was 6 and stayed for 25 years. I then lived in the USA for 14 years returning back to SA 10 years ago. Without a doubt, this is my favorite place to live. I've traveled extensively to many different countries, staying in each 2 to 3 months at a time. The more you travel the more you realize that everywhere has tradeoffs. You can recite murder stats etc as much as you like but the heart wants what the heart wants. I love South Africa!
THE ONLY Country in The WORLD WHERE Strangers Greets EACH OTHER.
Came back to South Africa after a month on vacation in Germany some years back. The smile on the petrol attendant's face at the garage in my residential area made me realize how much I missed South Africa in that short period, and how special and unique our people are! ❤❤❤
Welcome back home we love you all South Africans 🇿🇦👍🏽
We ❤you too come back home.
Welcome back home ❤❤❤
I'm a born Englishman living in South Africa for the past 43 years and could never understand why anyone would want to leave this great country for the dollar Euro or Pound... Watching the tide turn is heart warming for me as my kids are born South Africans 👍
@@terryharrison5185 28 000 murders, hijackings, robberies, voilence. A good parent would take their children to a safer country
I've been telling people this same thing..... later we see them crying to home to the same shitty "South Africa".....
Im glad i never left and will never leave.🇿🇦
SA and Durban people are just built different. Very warm 🙌
This country gets in your soul and never lets go!❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
I am coming back home to South Africa after 15 years in the EU.
I can't wait.
Welcome home ❤❤❤❤
Enjoy
Welcome back home ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Come back, come back home. No place like home.
I’m English but have lived in Jozi for 25 years now. Can’t imagine living anywhere else… the best place for so many reasons, some tangible and some not so much.
Welcome home Boet! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Thanks
His home is in Europe, not Africa
I live and work all over the world and LOVE my country South africa - there is nothing like it ❤
Welcome home 🏡 I love this country
🙏🏾♥️ God Bless South Africa 🇿🇦
Thank you so much for this. Also am back and forth between UK and SA. Would never leave South Africa for anywhere else ❤️🇿🇦❤️
Proudly South African 🇿🇦 ♥️ ❤️
SA is looking like a great option
Welcome home you son of the amazing South African soil!! This is your home!❤❤
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I’ve travelled alot and nothing compares to home! 🇿🇦
Well said Scott!🔥
Amen brother, you and me both! I’m a Pom Saffa Durban boy too, well travelled, South Africa is home! Traveled the US, Australia, Kiwi, Britain…all have their problems. We are blessed 🙏🏻🇿🇦❤💪😎🏉☀️🍺👍
Agree totally. So well put. We just got back from 3 weeks in France. Outrageous prices and really lousy service…sometime nonexistent service. A great feeling to be back.
Retired American living in SA …. Not going back!
Hay bo! Jabulani 😂😂😂😂😂😂
JB I like your name 😊
Welcome to South Africa. May our hills and mountains, the ocean and its waves; the land with its flora and fauna, bless you. May our people embrace you.
May you encounter the smiles, warmth and diversity of our Tribes. You've added another tribal dimension to this beautiful nation.
We have 22 foundational Tribes. Here's a breakdown below.
We have 6 caucasian Tribes:
English; Portuguese; Italian; Jewish; Afrikaner; Greek.
We have 4 Asian tribes:
Chinese, Indian (3 clans) viz. Northern India Muslims, Southern India, Hindu/Tamil and Seikh.
We have 11 native tribes:
Zulu; Xhosa; Khoi; San; Nama; Ndebele; Swati; Pedis; Tsonga; Venda; Sothos.
I pray you always be safe in South Africa, your new home.❤😊💜🇿🇦❤🇺🇸
Welcome home we love you all 🇿🇦❤️
I also have similar options to you, Scott, and choose to live in SA! I agree with everything you said in your video - and I'm also a Durban boy!
I couldn't agree more with the comments made here.
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explain your self 😮
Glad you came back from Blighty, where you were a few weeks ago.
I agree with you, our people are so special. When I go for walks, every person I came across greets me.....a little bit less in Kwazulu Natal...The Zulus are not as outgoing as the Tswanas in Pretoria!
You will not experience warmth in any other country as in South Africa.
I'm tswana and I agree with you!😂
Can't imagine staying any else in the world
Welcome home boet🇿🇦🇿🇦
Thanks
South Africa 🇿🇦 ♥️ ❤️ 🙌
I spent a year living/working in SA in 2012. Going back in a few weeks for the first time since then, looking forward to it very much!
Although we have problems but I’m going nowhere stru 🤞 viva 🇿🇦🎇
The atmosphere in South Africa is good 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
You well come brother, South Africa the land favored by grace of God❤❤
South Africans take the friendly, warm and kindness for granted. In other countries you feel along while being around thousands of people. The only other country that I would live in apart from South Africa is Japan, I fell in love with it when I visited there 10 years ago. I stayed for a month, and it was amazing.
Welcome we love you all, we just lack credible leaders who can take this country where it belongs. My hope is in the Almighty who always intervene when things go really bad. We have craziest people here.
Yes! You absolutely nailed it.♥
South africa is a fantastic place...I'm not going anywhere..
Welcome back Scott...🇿🇦❤️
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Mzantsi for sure 🇿🇦
Also a Durban boy! George Campbell H S
Welcome home Scott 🇿🇦🇿🇦💚💛
I also love living in this Country and now as a content creator it's even better
Mate, I agree with you. I'm South African / Canadian. I've lived in the UK, West Germany (when it was west and east), Rhodesia (before it became Zimbabwe) South Africa and Canada.
Yes South Africa has its problems like an incompetent and corrupt Gov institutions and there are reasons for that.
But in Canada, at least under the Chairman Blackface Trudeau Gov there is incompetence and also massive corruption. The incompetence and corruption there is INTENTIONAL.
And as you say, the weather sucks. Sure there is nice scenery but you have that in SA as well.
In Canada, like SA the cost of living is high but the standard of living
I just find that the way of life in SA is more lay back.
Now, you're a real old-timer, are you?
Glad to have you in SA, Madala!
Looking well Scott!
That's real talk... 👍
Agree best people and I especially love Joburg
Home is always home no matter where it is 😁
Yes brother 😊😊😊
Watching this made me have goosebumps all over.
I am glad you liked it!
You are always welcome fellow
Glad for you, we left SA in 1994, live in TEXAS and we feel the same way about the USA OUR NEW HOME.
Good for you.
So long as you don't secretly have this longing to see things go south in SA, just so that you feel better for making the decision to leave. But I am confident of better sentiments on your part.
I sort of understand people who left from 1994- 2008, things where kinda weird and the west was doing just fine. Right now, unless you have a great once in a lifetime job offer there is no point leaving. Imagine paying 40k a month for some crap flat in the UK
Welcome back brother 🤜🏾🤛🏾
We're unique people we have whites that they speak our languages❤❤❤🇿🇦🙌🏾
I laugh so hard when Africans brag that they were born in USA or Europe 🙄🤣🤣🤣
I can't see myself in any country rather than SA❤️❤️❤️🇿🇦🙌🏾🫶🏾🙏🏾
Many Africans think that they are French, Spanish and Portuguese 😢
Nice to hear some positive words about a country that’s been poorly represented over the years..
Johannesburg used to be pretty bad for violent crime and car jacking seemed to be the normal i dont know if that’s changed over time and the South African farmers where being targeted to be tortured and murdered which puts most people off wanting to move to live there..
The uk crime rates are through the roof now and tbf its becoming more unsafe to live here by the day..
I lived in sa back in the 70’s apartheid era as a child and we where only there whilst my dad was working on contract there and came back when it finished but I do recall our parents having many friends whilst we where there and ive always thought about visiting again just to see what it’s like now 50 years on..
Nice to hear this though and good that your happy back home again
Welcome home.
Welcome home 🙂
Been in the Uk 27 years, now in NZ for 2 years, moving back to Jozi in 2025, my visit last Christmas made me realise home was calling
NIce one
Thanks, and welcome home.
Thank you too!
Scott is back!!!
Thanks
If you don't have a skill or trade, South Africa sadly isn't a great place to live. Employment opportunities are limited, so you're stuck in a rut unless you have a family with money or know people that do. The UK accepted me, unskilled, but with a great work ethic, they trained me up and gave me everything I now have. So for me, I absolutely love living here and will never leave - but Cape Town will always be in my heart and love visiting.
The UK is more than London, people! 🇿🇦
Ya I think it is all about adding value wherever you live!
Whenever i see people migrating for other countries, I am filled with envy. Always wishing I had the same opportunities but when you hear stories of them after migrating you begin to feel like it’s better in South Africa. Obviously this is not the same for everyone. Some people find peace when they left. Others not. But in all of that I have come to accept that I love this country beyond everything else that is out there. I really hope that things will slowly turn around for the better. All we need is a stable government and to root out crime and corruption. We have the potential but greedy politicians are the biggest challenge. I am glad others like you feel the same. I thought I was being blinded by my loyalty to SA 😂❤
Don't be, I'm English my wife's Capetonian we lived in CT for 14 years but out of necessity we had to move back to the UK. We miss SA every day. I'm still trying to work out how we can come back
Not at all. I have had the privilege to travel to many countries and lived in the UK for 9 years and so clearly understand the alternatives.
Welcome home Scott glad you've realize home is where the heart is just make sure you keep it clean and we can be friends
I lived and worked in Dubai for 10. 5 years.... came back home 🏡.... and SA 🇿🇦 is truly home 😁👍🏻👌💯🍷🍻
It really is!
Good for you. UK is an absolute SH. A literal prison with miserable weather on top of it.
Its a lot safer than over here.
@@MarkHutchinson-ry9sz Rather be free than safe.
Rather live life than live in a fear. Interesting perspective as I know many South African's beaten up in london. Again be careful of what you think it is like somewhere else.
I am a born Brit lived in SA for 42 years. My daughter and I decided to go back to the UK we was there 3years it was really nice being back with relatives but things didn't work out for us so we are back in SA. The weather isn't as nice as SA but, when I was a child Britain had really nice hot summers. It all changed in the 1960's when it did nothing but rain. I guess it's climate change. You can't beat SA.
Back home and loving it. Lived in the UK for 8 years made some money but it sucks and even more today. Lived in Aus for 20 years made loads of money but what a bunch of loosers. Love South Africa and the people. 🙏🙏🙏🇿🇦
Elaborate, why are the ausies loosers? Why does the UK suck?
Your the problem😂
Welcome home Ou Baas
Mzansi💌
SA has great potential. We just need to educate the majority of citizens, that staying stuck in the past is not going to take the country forward. Those politicians who like using race/hatred are doing so to stay relevant, remain in power and enrich themselves: while the majority can't afford to keep their lights on or have afford a decent meal for their families.
Welcom home brother🎉
Lekker welcome back boet 🎉🎉
Thanks
I agree 💯 I worked in Saudi Arabia for a while.... Very bad experience ... I will never go back there 🤢
Love positive videos
We love our country ❤❤
Agreed
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I wish I could share your optimism man. Things in Pretoria are looking dire now. But to add to that, my best friend recently moved to Canada and he’s not much happier there.
Grass is not always greener!
I live in Pretoria. What is looking dire?
Thank you for loving South Africa. We appreciate, but don’t forget, like any other country we have our issues as well. I just want to warn you about crime. Be careful, don’t be at the wrong place at the wrong time. People have no jobs, and as a result we experience a lot of crime. Other than that we enjoy the Country as well. Even APARTHEID ISSUES ARE MINIMAL. Don’t even trust uber and volt these days. You better hire a shuttle. Don’t carry any waist bag for your belongings in the city centre. You better use malls outside the city centre. Enjoy.🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦👏👏👏
I find Uber fine.
Baie lekker. Me and my family are thinking about emigrating due to the wars etc. We're a half Swedish and half English family (I'm none white, was adopted)
Well I dont know what half you are but uou are not English or Swedish. Find yiur real roots and own it.
@@ianmiles2505 my husband is English and I'm Swedish, adopted from Thailand, but I don't speak the language. I guess, you're not South African then 😂😂😂 Jy taal est baie kak!
@@Darkangel-A-c8z what wars? FYI: my spouse is Swedish and he's lived here in South Africa for twenty two years. By the way, why are you trying to type something in Afrikaans to someone whose user name is clearly English? And stop insulting my mother tongue! By finding your roots, the person meant that you should decide on where you truly feel at home. I'm half Czech, but I was born and raised here in South Africa and I do not feel my Eastern European roots. I'm 100% proudly South African!
@@maruskaehrensdorfer 🤔🤔🤔the war between Russia and Ukraine for a start and the war between Israel and Palestine. I know, you live in South Africa, but I didn't realise that you've been living under a rock as well. Ek bien baie gatvol met jou taal
@@ianmiles2505 now I know, why everyone hated your kind. Stoo acting like a subhuman low life scum, aan ek bien baie gatvol met jou taal. Mijn ex bf waar als Suid Afrika aan hey waar een blanke Suid Afrikaaner. By the likes of you, and by the way you just spoke to me, I've got no pity for you, you're a minority, remember that!
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Welcome home grootman ❤️
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Ek is n trotse Suid Afrikaner dit my land my bloed sal hier bly vir altyd 🎉
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Someone just stole a suitcase 😲
I was born in the UK, i have worked in the UK. I have been in SA most of my life though and while there are nice things about the UK, it would be silly to say there aren't, the weather is a big turn off. I love the history in the UK, that is great, and the ease of getting stuff done. The people are also very friendly and the country is beautiful. But SA has a more dynamic feel about it. It could be for reasons that are not the greatest in some cases and the ANC government is somewhat less than fantastic (thats a long way of saying its cr@p) but I feelfar more alive in SA and lets face it the weather in JHB is far better than in the UK.
Completely agree. There is a different energy here.
South Africa is the greatest…. You literally live different life’s here, it’s got a little bit of everything in one.
Foreign Europeans and Americans who have been living in South Africa (Cape Town and JHB) for years when i asked them why did they decided to make Africa (South Africa) their home they always give me similar answers and that is everytime they take a trip back home (US/UK/Europe) it gives them more justification and reason why they decided to make South Africa home..they say the moment you land at JFK/Heathrow people are just cold and unwelcoming,the moment you leave the airport you just see how homelessness,narcotics,politics,illegal immigration etc etc etc has screwed the country..
Completely agree
Ooh apology. I thought you are a visitor. Welcome back home.
What do you have to earn to be comfortable in South Africa?
Comfort is a relative concept but to give you an idea.
The poorest person in South Africa receives a free 3 bedroom house with a shower. A social welfare cheque every month. Free education for their kids. Subsidised electricity and public transport. 100% financial aid for all your kids at university. Free healthcare in all public hospitals and clinics. Two free meals for their kids at their schools. Subsided water. Just to mention a few. The best way I define standards of living between countries is to look at the value proposition for the poor. This is because the middle class is the middle class. The middle class in SA is exposed to the same things that the middle class in the US or UK are. Private healthcare, private schools for kids, Credit, world class infrastructure and organic food. The poor in SA however even have cable TV. So yeah comfort in South Africa exists. The higher you are in the tax bracket, the more comfortable you are. Middle class Americans and Brits who move to SA live like Kings because of the offering the country presents.
About R50 000 after tax and other deductions. Even then you will have to stick to a budget.
@@luthovellem865
Clearly you don’t actually live in SA!
75% of South African workers earn less than R6,000 per month.
That’s if you have a job, because the unemployment rate is about 40%
This monthly social grant you talk about is for unemployed workers and is only R370 per month. To qualify you may not have any other source of income.
To put that amount into perspective, a Big Mac burger costs about R31 and a Big Mac meal about R40.
The old age monthly grant is about R2,200 a month.
Child grants are R530 monthly.
There are waiting lists for government housing and it can take you years to get a small 2 roomed house with indoor plumbing. Lots of poor people live in shacks without indoor plumbing.
Free basic education applies if you’re very poor. However, the standard of education in these schools is very low and you can have 50 to 60 kids in a class.
Yes, healthcare is free for children, the unemployed and the elderly. Others pay a small amount. That said, the medical care in government hospitals is so poor that those that can afford it pay for private healthcare.
Government hospitals are rundown, ill equipped and understaffed.
South Africa is the most unequal country in the world.
To give you an idea, the median salary is about R5,500 per month, but the average salary is about R27,000.
7 million taxpayers support almost 28 million people on social grants. (There are about 62 million people in SA)
The tax threshold is about R8,000 per month, so most people don’t pay personal income tax because they don’t earn enough.
That is the situation in South Africa for a poor person.
As a middle class South African I can tell you that it’s a great place to live.
The country is beautiful with stunning scenery, and amazing beaches. Our wildlife and game parks are legendary. I live in Cape Town which is arguably one of the best cities in the world!
Now, reality check…
You will need to pay for private medical aid and private schooling. You’ll also need private security for your home. Bottom line, I love living in South Africa, it’s an amazing country, but I wouldn’t like living here if I were poor, that’s for sure!
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Bunny chow? Durban poison?
And your point?
Bunny chow is great! What poison are you talking about?
Welcome home. Son of African soil.
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I can' t wait to come home. The conformity and nonsense in the other anglophone countries just irritates me. The smugness and the dullness of where I am is just too stultifying. In SA people say what they think and they're straightforward and they don't get offended at he drop of a hat. Not the woke hell of where I am now, can't stand it.
Exactly!
Well, it depends with who you’re, if you’re a black migrant in SA, you’re at high risk of Xenophobic attack
I never said there were not challenges.
Voluntarily living in a failed state, I respect the hustle... 😀
You can say what you want about US and England having their problems, but at least have electricity 24/7.
So do we at the moment! Ps Nothing solar cant sort out.
So you're not aware of the rolling blackouts in Maine, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida in the U.S.? At least here I don't have to worry about mass shootings like they do in the U.S. because you can basically buy guns in supermarkets over there and nut cases have access to assault rifles. Even England suffers terribly when there are snow storms and other natural disasters with severe blackouts and a lack of access to services etc. The English don't even know how to cope with snow. No wonder everyone looks so miserable all the time with the crap weather there! And the crime and riots in the U.K. are out of control. Good luck over there with that while I will happily live in our "failed state"! 😉😊
You are not in Johannesburg.....you are in Kempton Park.
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Aww. Come on man 😂
Funny when the international airport is listed, it is listed as it is Johannesburg which also happens to be on Kempton park
@@thetad1242 it's like that in every other country. They list the airport as being in a city, but they always build the airports outside the cities in an industrial area/relatively far removed from the actual city.
Yes. We have crap. But its _our_ crap. Why would you want to exchange your crap for someone elses?
Love that
Wow and here i am thinking the western world is heavan🙈
Nope we live in heaven!
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Wouldn't like to tell you what recently happened to an English guy and is wife down in Robertson on a small holding , horrific is putting it mildly. S.A. probably the most unsafe place in the world.
is it in the news?
I never said there were not challenges. I also know a lot more people personally who got beaten up in London by the kids.... and so again perspective.
@collin5777 and in America people are shot on a weekly basis, usually in mass shootings. In the U.K. there are stabbings and riots. I feel much safer here, thanks.
It is your choice. But you have a choice, you have open doors to go when things go sour. Western civilization is failing and there are not many places that offer better currently, which interestingly makes SA looks top in the sh1t pile.
Who gives a crap, “very well”?
I do as I am a proud South African!
The problem for this bloke is when you look at the hard facts. South Africa has major problems compared to other countries he mentioned.
That's not a problem for this bloke, it's your problem.
This bloke, knowing all of SA's problems, still loves his home country.
I am not naive. I am very aware of everything and I CHOOSE to live here.
Well said!
@@MuzorewaRatshikuni actually it is his problem as he has to deal with South Africa’s problems. You point doesn’t make sense
@@Amanzi379
Yes, the matter is way above your level of comprehension. Let's leave it there.
Ag fok off. Full pg money its a different cointry. Bs
What do you mean? I have no idea what you are talking about?
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Problematic political policies that landed them there and they don't want to change it....