Royal Ascot in Cape Town - anyone live there?

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After 7:00 in the morning, in my experience, it takes around 40 minutes to get to the Foreshore area of the CBD. If you leave at 6:45 you're probably looking at about 20 - 25 minutes.
 
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badtrev said:
After 7:00 in the morning, in my experience, it takes around 40 minutes to get to the Foreshore area of the CBD. If you leave at 6:45 you're probably looking at about 20 - 25 minutes.
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OK that's not too bad. So still a bit of traffic at 6 45 then.
 
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I have lived there for 4 years. On average 30min to town and back leaving around 8am and returning around 6pm. At night time, it is 15min into town. You can either take Koeberg, N1 or marine drive, so there are options. Very safe and quiet area, 5min walk to woolworths, spar and restaurants etc.
 
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I have lived there for 4 years. On average 30min to town and back leaving around 8am and returning around 6pm. At night time, it is 15min into town. You can either take Koeberg, N1 or marine drive, so there are options. Very safe and quiet area, 5min walk to woolworths, spar and restaurants etc.
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Sweet. Sounds good to me. You have any problems with mould and/or lack of cell phone reception?
 
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I have had problems with mould, you just need to start taking precautions before winter comes - none of the black stuff though - more green and brown. Across the whole estate cellphone reception varies from complex to complex. Where I live Cell C and MTN is fine but vodacom sucks, but down the road at my friends place, we get the opposite.
 
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I have had problems with mould, you just need to start taking precautions before winter comes - none of the black stuff though - more green and brown. Across the whole estate cellphone reception varies from complex to complex. Where I live Cell C and MTN is fine but vodacom sucks, but down the road at my friends place, we get the opposite.
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Have they just not bothered to roll out towers over that side of the world?

This mould sounds concerning.

Do the body corporates not do anything wholesale in terms of eradicating it?
 
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Sweet. Sounds good to me. You have any problems with mould and/or lack of cell phone reception?
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Never had any mould. Buildings seem to be solid, i.e not al cheapies. Also if you are buying its a good investment. My place has grown 60% in just over 4 years. Cellphone reception is good, always on Hsdpa. ADSL line also seems to be solid.
 
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Never had any mould. Buildings seem to be solid, i.e not al cheapies. Also if you are buying its a good investment. My place has grown 60% in just over 4 years. Cellphone reception is good, always on Hsdpa. ADSL line also seems to be solid.
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Nice. Which complex if you don't mind me asking?
 
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We moved back to Royal Ascot after a year in Durbanville. While there will always be traffic when something goes wrong on the road, it's still about half the time and fuel, which is great.

I seem to be on the wrong side of the VDSL upgrade though, only get 4mbps ADSL (stable and reliable) and for some reason my specific location has bad to zero cellphone reception (we really can do with a cellphone mast in the middle of the estate). If I walk outside into the road it's much better, so the complex and house walls seem to be the main issues for cellphone signal. Just takes a bit of getting used to after the year in a 60mbps LTE and 10mbps ADSL area (spoiled rotten).

The area in general seems to have gotten even nicer in the year we were not staying here. Paddocks got some nice new shops and restaurants and the myciti expansion is nice.

It seems there was some attempts in the past to get the HOA to agree to a cellphone tower, but it was only for one at the very south edge ( http://www.royalascot.co.za/cellphones.htm ). They cite radiation worries which I find ridiculous in this case - Royal Ascot can't be a cellphone quiet-zone, everyone's cellphone will just radiate a bit more power to try to reach whatever towers are available 1km away.
 
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Does anyone live in Sandown Crescent? What's going on with the stagnant water in the "wetlands" in the middle of the old Racecourse? Really off-putting smell :(
 
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Ahh is that where it's coming from. It's quite bad, we were pouring bleach down our drains until we realised it really isn't just in our house. Want to find out if we can report it somewhere hopefully to get it sorted out, don't want to wait for rain.
 
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Ahh is that where it's coming from. It's quite bad, we were pouring bleach down our drains until we realised it really isn't just in our house. Want to find out if we can report it somewhere hopefully to get it sorted out, don't want to wait for rain.
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Yes. Went to a show house yesterday. And we also hoped it was just a blocked drain.

Should've taken a pic, but there's a massive pool of rotting stagnant water right outside the curve of apartments at the far end of the Racecourse. They need to fill that in with sand or something ASAP.
 
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Aessa said:
We moved back to Royal Ascot after a year in Durbanville. While there will always be traffic when something goes wrong on the road, it's still about half the time and fuel, which is great.

I seem to be on the wrong side of the VDSL upgrade though, only get 4mbps ADSL (stable and reliable) and for some reason my specific location has bad to zero cellphone reception (we really can do with a cellphone mast in the middle of the estate). If I walk outside into the road it's much better, so the complex and house walls seem to be the main issues for cellphone signal. Just takes a bit of getting used to after the year in a 60mbps LTE and 10mbps ADSL area (spoiled rotten).

The area in general seems to have gotten even nicer in the year we were not staying here. Paddocks got some nice new shops and restaurants and the myciti expansion is nice.

It seems there was some attempts in the past to get the HOA to agree to a cellphone tower, but it was only for one at the very south edge ( http://www.royalascot.co.za/cellphones.htm ). They cite radiation worries which I find ridiculous in this case - Royal Ascot can't be a cellphone quiet-zone, everyone's cellphone will just radiate a bit more power to try to reach whatever towers are available 1km away.
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Yes, agreed on the area having become nicer and the upgrades to paddocks. The cellphone issue is pretty crazy.
 
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http://www.vodacom.co.za/personal/internet/coveragemaps

Zoom into Grand National Boulevard and you'll see, GPRS and EDGE are your only options then. Often callers wont be able to reach you and vice versa. A major con I have to say.
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That is a major concern. I'm going to view some more places this week. Must remember to test out my phone when I get there.

At least when I'm home I'd be connected to the ADSL via wifi but that's not going to keep me get/make calls :(
 
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