Thinking about leaving SA

[gregmcc]

Chances of getting into the UK now is getting slimmer by the day.

If you are on a SA passport (and can't get a ancestral visa) then you need a company here to sponsor you. This is a virtually impossible task as they also have to prove no one in the EU can do the job and they therefore need to hire an outsider.

There are also Tier 1/2 visa's but you just about have to be a rocket scientist to get them or have done something special.

 

[Ho3n3r]

Bollywood?

Zollywood?

 

[Frankie_Yale]

why would you want to leave SA?

SA is on the up and up.

you wont be happy in another country anyways

 

[Ho3n3r]

why would you want to leave SA?

SA is on the up and up.

you wont be happy in another country anyways

*** man. Where have you been the last 15 years?

 

[Frankie_Yale]

*** man. Where have you been the last 15 years?

right here.

finished high school.
got qualified.
got a job.

what more do you want?

 

[Rocket Raccoon]

Perth

 

[gregmcc]

SA is on the up and up.

Drugs are bad mmmmkay

 

[RustyPrincess]

You could always try qualify for an Australian or Canadian visa.
Otherwise enter the green card lotto for the US.

 

[Ho3n3r]

right here.

finished high school.
got qualified.
got a job.

what more do you want?

- A more stable economy
- Investor confidence growing, not slipping
- Not feeling in danger every minute of my life
- Cops that actually do their work - at least 20% of them.

To name a few.

 

[Frankie_Yale]

- A more stable economy
- Investor confidence growing, not slipping
- Not feeling in danger every minute of my life
- Cops that actually do their work - at least 20% of them.

good luck finding a place with all of that.

 

[RustyPrincess]

- A more stable economy
- Investor confidence growing, not slipping
- Not feeling in danger every minute of my life
- Cops that actually do their work - at least 20% of them.

To name a few.

To add to that:

Stable electricity supply
Competent public service officials (home affairs, licensing department, jmpd to name a few)
Decent public transport
Equal opportunities that are actually equal

 

[zll]

You could always try qualify for an Australian or Canadian visa.
Otherwise enter the green card lotto for the US.

I've been chatting to the family here and considering I have family (cousins) in Aus that would probably be my best bet.

 

[zll]

good luck finding a place with all of that.

I'm not looking for perfect. I'm just looking for better, and you can't deny that there are definitely better places to live than South Africa.

 

[konfab]

I'm not looking for perfect. I'm just looking for better, and you can't deny that there are definitely better places to live than South Africa.

Depends where in South Africa. In the right places, I reckon we have a better quality of life than most of Europe.

 

[mooks]

Look into the Netherlands. That is where I am looking at going.

Mostly English speaking, good work ethic, I personally have no issues with any of the laws they have passed recently

Out of curiosity, what laws are you referring to? Also, I didn't think NL was any easier to get into than other EU countries?

 

[mooks]

Depends where in South Africa. In the right places, I reckon we have a better quality of life than most of Europe.

I have to agree with this. In many ways SA'n life is not even comparable to European life. By the same token, European life is in many ways far superior to SA'n lifestyle. It all depends what you're looking at, what your priorities are and what you want to gain from your environment.

I love and miss SA but accept that fact that I haven't seen the sun (real sunshine, not this watered down business) in about 7mnths now because I have other gains/benefits that I view as more valuable.

 

[patrick]

I'm on a 5 year plan. Not specifically because I want to leave SA, but because I'd like to live in, and travel Europe. The 5 years is so I can save up enough cash to do that. I think that salaries here are high, and it's very possible to keep costs low, so a good place to do saving. There are few places where you could save more, probably the states, but the last thing in the world I want to be is a US citizen with their tax on citizenship instead of residency law.

 

[Shard]

Move to the Western Cape, we're basically a different country lol.

 

[CHURCHILL]

I've been chatting to the family here and considering I have family (cousins) in Aus that would probably be my best bet.

Agreed, wise decision, The UK has terrible weather, you wont enjoy it.

 

[Grep]

So my sister-in-law and her boyfriend are here from Melbourne and we are sharing stories. Yes we have crime, yes we have the bluddy ANC, yes we have no power but god do we have it good. We all went out for a meal last night, what would have cost them $180, it came down to a table full of us for R1600.

We can take the dogs out without a leash, unheard of! Riding a bike without a helmet, absolute madness! I can go on and on, lets not even bring up driving a car without a seatbelt. We all take so much for granted until the rules come up and then we complain, point is that we all, across all divides, have problems.

All in all, damn, most of us have it good.