Recent content by Ancalagon

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    Remote work in South Africa?

    Well, remote as in not living in JHB but not necessarily in the sticks. More likely, we'd base ourselves in a provincial town or city with decent schools. We'd send them to private schools of course - will need to research this more but I hear some private schools let your kids get the...
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    Remote work in South Africa?

    Yeah, look career wise Europe is the place to be, no doubt about it. But for raising a family and just... living, South Africa is hard to beat. If I could somehow get remote work that paid well by South African standards (R2m per year), we could have an amazing life. Which I know is a big...
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    Remote work in South Africa?

    What about KZN? Disaster area?
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    Remote work in South Africa?

    Yeah I've noticed that remote work is more difficult to come by lately. I recently changed jobs and the selection of remote jobs is smaller. There seems to be more EU remote jobs though. Living in SA would likely require me to form some special arrangement with an international company. Could...
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    What is your favourite modern gaming console or platform?

    They are becoming very popular in Europe and America. Lots of examples: ROG Ally, ROG Ally X, Lenovo makes one (can't remember the name), MSI makes one, Zotac makes one. Rumours are that both Sony and Microsoft will make handheld consoles soon. Steam Deck is by far the best in terms of...
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    What is your favourite modern gaming console or platform?

    Steam Deck Combines the low price of PC games with the ease of use of a console - games just work and you never need to fiddle (although you can if you want to). Plus its portable and about as powerful as a PS4. Sure, PS5s and PCs are more powerful, but games look good enough already on a...
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    Why Scrum is Stressing You Out

    If I could make the same money that I make now out of the corporate environment I would leave in a heartbeat.
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    Why Scrum is Stressing You Out

    Scrum advocates: scrum means that teams should be self organising. Run retros and figure out what you want to improve or change. Team: So what happens if we have a retro and decide that we wanted to get rid of scrum and use something else? Scrum advocates: Err, well you can't decide that...
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    Remote work in South Africa?

    Hey everyone! My wife and I are considering leaving England - we're looking for a new home. England is just too cold, the houses too small, and the taxes too high for what you get. We have a few options, and I'm wanting to investigate SA a bit more closely. If we return to SA, I'd prefer to...
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    Immigrating to the UK

    I find the darkness the worst part, especially in winter. Short overcast days are just horrible! I can cope with lower temperatures, its the lack of light that affects me the most. With that being said, sometimes it is frustrating that the UK just doesn't often get nice sunny warm days. Like...
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    Immigrating to the UK

    I mean, the UK definitely has some advantages compared to SA but let's not pretend its perfect. I don't think it is helpful to people considering emigrating from SA to the UK to pretend that the UK is all roses and sunshine. The weather IS terrible. I've lived here 5 years, so I know what I'm...
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    Ramaphosa not going anywhere as ANC begins coalition talks

    I mean it only took 10 years for support for Jacob Zuma's party to drop below 50%. In any other country, if a party did what the ANC did, they'd be out in the next election. The ANC lasted 2-3 (I forget how many exactly). It took over a decade of load shedding, state capture, that nuclear power...
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    Registering my daughter as South African while abroad

    Hey everyone, need some advice. I'm living in England and want to register my daughter as South Africa. She turns one year old soon. People online say that you cannot do this through an agency and you must go into the Consulate in London, and both parents must go. But one small company says...
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    How much money do you earn? And how do you spend it?

    We own outside of London. Cost us a little less than half a million but we have a 4 bedroom house. Totally agree though - to get a "forever" home, we'd have to spend close to a million. It's ridiculous. One of the things I don't like about the UK.
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    How much money do you earn? And how do you spend it?

    I only really became serious about moving to the US when I arrived in the UK. I guess before then, I was living in SA, and the USA was this fantasy that didn't seem real. I entered the diversity visa lottery, never won it, but even then was wondering if I'd actually move if I won. I was single...
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