Quote Originally Posted by DenSweeP View Post
Then why leave SA? Seems to me like a cop-out. If someone is supposed to be the fittest to survive, shouldn't you be able to survive anywhere, SA included? In fact, by staying in SA, we are proving ourselves to be better than the rest of the world by being able to survive is supposedly tough conditions...
I have survived here for 25 years and I'm bored with not only the country but the people in it. I'm tired of getting maybe 1mb/s instead of 20.

Sometimes survival isn't enough, maybe because deep down I worry that 1 night I'm going to wake up with some guy standing over my wife with a panga and I would be helpless. Yes bad things can happen anywhere but I'll take my chances with the first world rather than the 3rd.

Quote Originally Posted by DenSweeP View Post
Financial considerations aside, I would consider moving abroad if I could find somewhere that really would make as happy and content as SA. Climate. Language. Sport. Infrastructure. Food. Everything plays a role and quite honestly I can't find somewhere that meets all my needs. Maybe I'm just picky, but please, where else is the world can you get what SA can offer? And I'm not talking about crime. I mean, where in one country can you go see elephants and lions walking in the wild freely and still speak english and/or afrikaans? Or drive for 6 hours and go swim on some of the worlds' best beaches? Or go skiing on some mountain slopes in the winter? Or have a braai with some boeries and chops with mates drinking a balck label? Or go to a rugby stadium with your mates and lots of biltong? Or go to the west coast and enjoy the namaqualand? Or go up to the Kalahari and enjoy the desert scenery. Or go to Mpumalanga and enjoy the beauty of the mountains and forests there? And what about being able to go wine testing on some of the best wines in the world and then go to the top of the world's most recognisable mountain in cable car and afterwards enjoy sundowners on Camp's Bay?

I'm not knocking anyone leaving SA. Everyone has their own reasons, but I think sometimes people are too hasty in their decisions or go for the wrong reasons. But hey, each to his own! For now I'll stay and enjoy everything my birthplace has to offer!
Infrastructure? Here? Seriously?
None of those things interest me, I've seen them all. I don't like sport, not all that out doorsy and if I need to show my kid Lions or whatever SA is a 12 hour flight away.