Goodbye Western Cape – reverse semigration trend hits South Africa

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The productive people with jobs should stay. Cape Town is a lovely place to live folks.

The refugees from the Eastern Cape can go to JHB. Cape Town is a horror show. Rather go to a World Class African City.
 
This is GREAT news for us living here. Seriously, it has become too crowded and our natural resources cannot sustain all. Tell us about the people from EC.....hope they are also going back?!
 
It was bound to happen at some point, but I don’t believe it’s happening en mass. As porchrat said above, the economic refugees are welcome to go, think everyone supports them leaving.

The economically active class, stay if you want, go if you want. It’s your money after all.

I do think the property bubble in the Western Cape is reaching breaking point though, and this is driving that to an extent. Housing prices have began reaching a point where it’s pure silliness. We were looking to buy some apartments recently, but on advice from investment advisors and from talking to estate agents, decided to put the cash elsewhere for a year or two, and wait for the pricing reset.
 
porchrat said:
The productive people with jobs should stay. Cape Town is a lovely place to live folks.

The refugees from the Eastern Cape can go to JHB. Cape Town is a horror show. Rather go to a World Class African City.
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Yes. Look at how racist the DA is towards black people. They should move back to utopias run by sons of the soil like Julius Malema and Cyril Ramaphosa.
 
porchrat said:
The productive people with jobs should stay. Cape Town is a lovely place to live folks.

The refugees from the Eastern Cape can go to JHB. Cape Town is a horror show. Rather go to a World Class African City.
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Joburg has already been gutted. Nothing much left to skive off of.
 
thestaggy said:
Joburg has already been gutted. Nothing much left to skive off of.
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No man that's not true. It's a World Class African City... apparently...

I've heard they even have running water and electricity sometimes.

Cape town by comparison is water scarce. We only get 2 months of rain. In summer it's so dry our ice catches fire. Cape Town is a horrible place (psssst those productive people with jobs ignore this, Cape Town is great)

The Eastern Cape refugees should definitely go to JHB instead for sure. It's basically paradise or so I've heard.
 
Property prices seem a bit broken down there. I prefer owning a home.
 
Cius said:
Property prices seem a bit broken down there. I prefer owning a home.
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Although I agree, as most would, property prices have lost the plot here in recent years (see my post above). Do you really believe owning a home is all it’s cut out to be, and the best long term investment? I mean I’m pretty sure there are lots of people who bought houses in Northcliff (JHB) 30 years ago that thought it was the investment of a lifetime, that are now regretting it big time.

Does owning your own home trump quality of life?
 
Zellephant said:
Although I agree, as most would, property prices have lost the plot here in recent years (see my post above). Do you really believe owning a home is all it’s cut out to be, and the best long term investment? I mean I’m pretty sure there are lots of people who bought houses in Northcliff (JHB) 30 years ago that thought it was the investment of a lifetime, that are now regretting it big time.

Does owning your own home trump quality of life?
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Whats wrong with Northcliff? Did I miss something?

Fact is I paid off my bond around age 40 and now I live in a home that is paid off. Every month I don't have to find money in my budget for a bond debit order or rent. Its wonderful. I like living like that.
 
Cius said:
Whats wrong with Northcliff? Did I miss something?

Fact is I paid off my bond around age 40 and now I live in a home that is paid off. Every month I don't have to find money in my budget for a bond debit order or rent. Its wonderful. I like living like that.
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Half the houses in Northcliff are drug dens, or owned by Nigerians for all manner of nefarious purposes.

It was once a suburb that was very desirable, yet now if you drive down Beyers Naudé or Weltevreden/pendoring roads, there is very little saying “upmarket” about it.

I had an Aunt who was widowed and without children, so when she passed away, we were responsible for boxing up her place and selling things off to finalise the estate. They lived in an absolute mansion in Northcliff, what estate angents would call and “entertainers dream”. It was an absolute nightmare getting the place sold, and eventually the family let it go for peanuts, because no one was even looking at a “market related” price, because no one with the combination of money and taste wants to buy in Northcliff anymore. Thats the downside to a property “investment”. Lots of capital tied up in an asset, and no guarantee it’s going to be worth much when you need to liquidate. Especially in a failing city/country.

There are lots of Zimbabweans sitting with title dead’s to homes and properties that they can do absolutely nothing with.
 
porchrat said:
The productive people with jobs should stay. Cape Town is a lovely place to live folks.

The refugees from the Eastern Cape can go to JHB. Cape Town is a horror show. Rather go to a World Class African City.
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What if I'm a decently productive Eastern Cape refugee?

I've offered many times to put an "Eastern Cape refugee" bumper sticker on my car if Helen Zille gave it to me. I will then also apologise for 'stealing' a Western Cape job and flat, and driving wages down and property prices up.
 
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