moving to Durban Balito

[Daxk]

Did'nt Lynne Hume, Murdered Estate Agent live in Ballito?

News - South Africa: Mystery of Lynne's last tragic hours

[Daxk]

And Durban is your nearest City,whats it? about 40 minutes drive?

Moneyweb - Soapbox - What the hell`s happened to Durbs

"This past Christmas season and New Year's season at the Durban Beach Front was a total disaster - and a nightmare for local residents.

There were three murders on Durban beach on December 18 alone. And during the last eighteen days in December, there were 1722 assaults, 111 gunshot wounds, 493 stabbings, and 282 rapes. On Christmas and New Year's, literally millions of broken beer bottles, human waste were deposited along the Durban beach front. There were tens of thousands of drunken hooligans everywhere, stabbing people, mugging, raping and shooting. Afterwards, the street cleaners picked up off 37,000 bags of rubbish from just two streets afterwards along the beach. And there were 51,000 bags of litter collected from the beach - rubbish, human waste and broken glass. In weight, this amounted to 716 tons of rubbish and broken glass."

[Zimtony]

What alovely celebration! What a heart-warmingly safe environment to be considering to live in!

I am just about to pack my bags and leave this horrendous part of the world that I live in and move back to all those things in SA that I miss - murder, rape etc

Whoopee!!!!!!!

[Loyiwe]

iam just happy to hear something positive abt our planned future in Balito pls tell me more abt everything there we are planning to come over for a visit 2010 and we must stay in a guest house just near to our house in order to experince how it would be like before we finally move.....but i would be more than happy if at all i can get in touch with you since you seems to have all what i need ......i will write again and maybe you can get my mail and we can communicate from there thanks love............

Originally Posted by Ericak

Hi. I currently live in Ball


ito. So, let me give you the real facts and not some stories from people who've past through... know Durban etc. Ballito is nothing like Durban. We moved to Ballito from Johannesburg because we wanted to get away from crime. This is our experience of this wonderful town -

We don't worry about crime - yet we are still careful (as you would be anywhere in the world)
Our kids are safe and leave their bikes etc outside - (but we live in a secure estate)
I have not heard of any murder/rape etc - (any serious crime since we've been here or of any such crime in the last 5 years)
There are burglaries, but once again no serious violent crime combined with it.
It is a town where people really care - especially if you become involved in the community. We have no family here and people have been wonderful.
It is not a small town anymore (like other posts might have implied) there has been major developments in Ballito
Ballito has the newest Netcare hospital in South Africa - it beautiful!
There is a huge demand in SA for nursing staff - be it in the private sector or the government sector
With regards to your wedding dress company - there isn't a company such as this in Ballito or close by - so I think you would do well. You can contact me should you require more info (I have some personal info about this which I'll share with you) Most of the people here are entrepreneurs and make their own way. Some are really wealthy and others not really (but we'd rather have less here than more in New York, London or Johannesburg)
It is expensive to live here - food / services / schooling etc.
Apart from that the weather is great - it gets a bit warm in Feb but the winters are wonderful
It is a wonderful place to retire! I know many people who have retired here - in fact my parents are considering moving here.

So bottom line - I've lived other places in the world. Yes Africa has it's problems, there's crime, corruption etc etc. But ... the people are warm and kind. Africa has something special in it's soil. It calls for it's children. If you want to be happy here, you would be. Please contact me when you visit again and I'll introduce you to some of the locals - we'd love to meet you! Trust the decision you made! We've never regretted moving here!

[Loyiwe]

hallo dear Ericak
iam still waiting for yr. details you promise you could send me in order to get in touch with you.....on the moving to Balito issue ok looking forward to hearing from you soon

Originally Posted by Loyiwe

iam just happy to hear something positive abt our planned future in Balito pls tell me more abt everything there we are planning to come over for a visit 2010 and we must stay in a guest house just near to our house in order to experince how it would be like before we finally move.....but i would be more than happy if at all i can get in touch with you since you seems to have all what i need ......i will write again and maybe you can get my mail and we can communicate from there thanks love............

[Loyiwe]

yes i have my mail callmeloyiwe@hotmail.com so dont hastet to get in touch theres still a lot i wanna know about Balito and i could like to work there as a nurse but where to start from and how to go about thats a problem you see when iam still here in Sweden!!!!

[Darko]

Originally Posted by Daxk

Did'nt Lynne Hume, Murdered Estate Agent live in Ballito?

News - South Africa: Mystery of Lynne's last tragic hours

Pehaps. But my friend of 18 yrs also currently lives there. Your point?

[Darko]

Originally Posted by Daxk

literally millions of broken beer bottles There were tens of thousands of drunken hooligans everywhere, stabbing people, mugging, raping and shooting. Afterwards, the street cleaners picked up off 37,000 bags of rubbish from just two streets afterwards along the beach. And there were 51,000 bags of litter collected from the beach - rubbish, human waste and broken glass. In weight, this amounted to 716 tons of rubbish and broken glass."

I would like sworn testimony as to the "literally millions" comment - who counted and verified?

Tens of thousands of people just milling aboutr stabbing and ****ting on the odd occasion - yeah right!!

[Darko]

Originally Posted by Zimtony

What alovely celebration! What a heart-warmingly safe environment to be considering to live in!

I am just about to pack my bags and leave this horrendous part of the world that I live in and move back to all those things in SA that I miss - murder, rape etc

Whoopee!!!!!!!

How can any person miss rape and murder?

[Daxk]

Originally Posted by Ericak

Hi. I currently live in Ballito. So, let me give you the real facts and not some stories from people who've past through... know Durban etc. Ballito is nothing like Durban. We moved to Ballito from Johannesburg because we wanted to get away from crime. This is our experience of this wonderful town -

We don't worry about crime - yet we are still careful (as you would be anywhere in the world)
Our kids are safe and leave their bikes etc outside - (but we live in a secure estate)
I have not heard of any murder/rape etc - (any serious crime since we've been here or of any such crime in the last 5 years)There are burglaries, but once again no serious violent crime combined with it.
It is a town where people really care - especially if you become involved in the community. We have no family here and people have been wonderful.
It is not a small town anymore (like other posts might have implied) there has been major developments in Ballito
Ballito has the newest Netcare hospital in South Africa - it beautiful!
There is a huge demand in SA for nursing staff - be it in the private sector or the government sector
With regards to your wedding dress company - there isn't a company such as this in Ballito or close by - so I think you would do well. You can contact me should you require more info (I have some personal info about this which I'll share with you) Most of the people here are entrepreneurs and make their own way. Some are really wealthy and others not really (but we'd rather have less here than more in New York, London or Johannesburg)
It is expensive to live here - food / services / schooling etc.
Apart from that the weather is great - it gets a bit warm in Feb but the winters are wonderful
It is a wonderful place to retire! I know many people who have retired here - in fact my parents are considering moving here.

So bottom line - I've lived other places in the world. Yes Africa has it's problems, there's crime, corruption etc etc. But ... the people are warm and kind. Africa has something special in it's soil. It calls for it's children. If you want to be happy here, you would be. Please contact me when you visit again and I'll introduce you to some of the locals - we'd love to meet you! Trust the decision you made! We've never regretted moving here!

I've highlighted my point in Bold Darko.