To emmigrate or not?

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LoneGunman said:
@Crabby, agreed. Its fairly sick for someone (allegedly) not inside a country, to be telling people who are in that country, locked up behind high walls and facing the possibility of extreme violence 24/7 - to 'stay where they are' and continue trying to tell those people how bad leaving might be, and how 'awful' overseas is.
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I'm curious.
Please define "not inside a country", referring to the folllowing cases:
Person A flies for work to a non-SA country for 1 day.
Person B flies for work to a non-SA country for 1 week.
Person C flies for work to a non-SA country for 1 month.
Person D flies for work to a non-SA country for 6 months.
Person E flies for work to a non-SA country for 1 year.

Or shall we rather measure it like this:
Person A lives and works in a non-SA country 5% of one year.
Person B lives and works in a non-SA country 10% of one year.
Person C lives and works in a non-SA country 25% of one year.
Person D lives and works in a non-SA country 50% of one year.
Person E lives and works in a non-SA country 100% of one year.

While in the non-SA country, said Person raises comments and suggestions about SA, emmigration, etc.

So, without necessarily being aware of my particular case, which one of the above shall serve to officially disquality any Person A~E from raising comments about SA, notwithstanding the extra experience and perspective the person actually gains by travelling and living around and comparing it to living in SA?

Please provide official proof of definition / measurements as provided by state or this forum. Thanks.
 
Crabby said:
I can't understand why you okes still bother to feed this troll who looks like he works for SAHomecoming or some other guvamint institution.
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The more time he wastes here the better it is. Who knows? If he wasn't trolling here he might post one of his pearls somewhere where it may do damage.
 
Albereth said:
The more time he wastes here the better it is. Who knows? If he wasn't trolling here he might post one of his pearls somewhere where it may do damage.
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Are we actually then doing humanitarian work..? :D
 
Driving 144k's to get to work and back.

Getting no other job offers because of skin colour despite the fact that my skills are BADLY needed (wonder if this isn't just another pro PR SA thing-a-ma-jix promo scam for poor old investors) .
NO I'm not a business man and don't intend to be one in SA. People here are way to rude.

Working amongst people who don’t understand you or me despite the fact that we both understand English.

Seeing my favorite sport going to the dogs.

Forking out 240 bucks to get to my favorite holiday site.

Forking out a good chunk out of my take home pay for insurance for my jalopy.

The list is endless.

So, in the end I'm not to sure why I'm still around here?
 
alloytoo said:
Only because the Police are the one's doing the assaulting, and hence the crime is never reported.

No.

A safe city.
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Like Christchurch? Or Auckland? Or any other city in NZ?

NZ is very aggressive about attracting migrants (the 900,000 foreign-born residents/citizens contribute more money to the economy just in taxes than the 310,000 NZ-born), but the fact is, a significant minority of migrants would never have come here if they were given more facts and less hype. I've met so many migrants from the U.S., U.K, continental Europe and especially Asia that are or want to leave. (I even started a support and info forum site for us.)
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Seriously, give it a good, hard, pessimistic thought. It can't hurt you to know the worst-case scenario. There's good, hard, pessimistic reasons 20,000 Kiwi leave the country every year. There's some pretty hard, damn heartbreaking reasons 1 in 5 migrants leave after 5 years, with figures higher for Asians.
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From: http://www.britishexpat.com/expatforum/nz/viewtopic.php?t=7384
:)
 
alloytoo said:
They leave after five years because a Kiwi passport allows you full access to the Australian Job Market.
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So lots of Kiwis, who obviously knows how things are in their own country, prefer the Australian job market above the NZ job market.

So, why don't you consider Australia instead?
 
Skinner said:
So lots of Kiwis, who obviously knows how things are in their own country, prefer the Australian job market above the NZ job market.

So, why don't you consider Australia instead?
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In a lot of cases its easier to get into New Zealand so people use New Zealand as a detour on the way to Aus.
 
obs said:
Driving 144k's to get to work and back.

Getting no other job offers because of skin colour despite the fact that my skills are BADLY needed (wonder if this isn't just another pro PR SA thing-a-ma-jix promo scam for poor old investors) .
NO I'm not a business man and don't intend to be one in SA. People here are way to rude.

Working amongst people who don’t understand you or me despite the fact that we both understand English.

Seeing my favorite sport going to the dogs.

Forking out 240 bucks to get to my favorite holiday site.

Forking out a good chunk out of my take home pay for insurance for my jalopy.

The list is endless.

So, in the end I'm not to sure why I'm still around here?
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You're pretty much describing the life I left behind in the UK. :(

Except my commute was 100 miles . . each way :eek:
 
bwana said:
You're pretty much describing the life I left behind in the UK. :(

Except my commute was 100 miles . . each way :eek:
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I live in the uk and door 2 door my trip to work is about 20mins.I can leave my job tomorrow and walk into another one...in South Africa you have to hold onto whatever job you can get (If you lucky enough to have one).

My holidays are taken all over europe and cost nothing compared to flying from SA to another country.FFS even going for a holiday in south africa is more expensive than going to another country in europe from the UK.

oh and I get 24mb uncapped adsl for £18p/m :D :D
 
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Skinner said:
You FAIL to mention accomodation costs in Europe :)
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I make pounds, accomodation is the same or cheaper than if I had to go holiday anywhere in Suth Africa on rands.If I holiday in eastern europe I get an apartment for the same price as a cheap hotel in south africa.

Example of my next holiday:
312 euro for 4 nights in our own apartment in the centre of venice.I checked the same dates in the centre of cape town at the protea hotel and its R3000!! lol

What a joke considering we have a full apartment to ourselves and 300 euro is a lot less to me in pounds than R3000 is to someone making rands.
 
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