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Originally Posted by gkloken
Dear Hazel, you have obviously not lived in the USA listening to the endless negative news here! I can count on my two hands the times I heard positive news. (I just simply do not listen to any news or politics any more to for sanity's sake.  )
As an ex South African too, I hear you but I also need to point out even before and since you left, crime really have lessened, for e.g. Johannesburg is much safer than before too, with guarantees from the Dept of Police to really crack down on it more intensively.
I moved to the USA to be "safer". To my utmost surprise I had to find that in most of the bigger Metropole areas various crimes are far worse than in South Africa and East Africa for that matter!
Surprise isn't it ? Salaries are so much lower here and most products are terrible quality wise compared to what we were used to in UK and SA. If you want to earn more money, go to South Africa thats for sure!
The beauty and climate are exquisite, Cape Town specifically so. |
gloken - See the items in red. That's why I was wondering if you planned to move back. You say that SA is just as safe as the US, has better quality goods, and that the pay is better.
I lived in Welkom. Beautiful? I think not. It is a fantastically beautiful country, but some parts of it, actually a big chunk in the center, is, shall we say, not beautiful.