Originally Posted by Unseer

I posted this in another thread, wanted to respond here too. I'm a positive Saffa.

My wife & I have been living in London for just under 7 years now. We left SA to see the world and accidentally got great jobs in London, bought a house and had a kid. Hard to argue with the economic stability of the UK right? Problem is we forgot that everything we love, everything dear to us is back in South Africa so we're going back home.

Cape Town is the place we're aiming for, I've lived there before (also lived in Joburg) and it's a nice balance of beauty (it's so beautiful it hurts), crime (better than Joburg, not as good as Knysna where I grew up) and stability (SA set to grow by 4.8% in 2008). After living in London and driving the hour-plus to work through rush hour I think Cape Town is going to be a wonderful surprise.

I've also never felt any less safe in London than I did living in Joburg. I grew up on a farm in the Southern Cape and worked in a bottle store doing deliveries into the locations during high school so I've seen a lot of stuff.
SA is the wild west, it's painfully beautiful from coast to coast, incredibly vibrant in all aspects and as dangerous as a bag of mamba's. With all of this in mind, we get to make a choice and we have chosen.

I love South Africa more intensely than ever before and its time to go home.