Your Emigration Bucket List

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TehStranger

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So like many others it's will soon be my time to leave the sunny shores of S.A. for greener pastures (in my case, The Netherlands). With only a few weeks to go I've been putting together a 'bucket list' of things to do before I head off. Some of the highlights include:

Hiking in the Drakensburg, particularly a mountain called Sterkhorn just out of Monk's Cowl
A Wimpy breakfast early on a Saturday morning with the family
A weekend in Kruger
A drive down the garden route
...and many more personal ones (like a last drink at Hard rock cafe in Sandton)

What would be on your bucket list if you had another 6 weeks in S.A.?
 
Mine was just as many surfs as I could fit in before I left.

Took such a wipeout on my final weekend though that I had to cut that session short, face first into the sandbank, bleeding face etc. Still worth it.
 
Visit one of SweetFenny's fabled whorehouses. If I was gonna emigrate to Prostitution HQ like you, I'd try the local flavor to compare it against the Dutch.
 
1. Get a tan before you go, I look like a ghost.
2. Eat biltong, actually engulf yourself in it, there is simply no equivalent in Europe and making your own is expensive over here.
3. Wimpy, wimpy
4. Spend as much time with the family until they annoy you, you will miss them.
 
Do lot's of braais and get a tan like nico says.

Besides if you earn decent coin you can fly back to ZA regularly anyway. Not a big deal
 
Ninja'd said:
Visit one of SweetFenny's fabled whorehouses. If I was gonna emigrate to Prostitution HQ like you, I'd try the local flavor to compare it against the Dutch.
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The girls in Amsterdam are on another level entirely, my wife and I have been blown away numerous times. :whistle:

biometrics said:
Doesn't sound like you want to leave. :confused:
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I've wanted to leave all my life, doesn't mean I won't miss certain elements of South Africa. :) My bucket list of things to do in Europe is massive compared to the "last few S.A. memories" list.

Nicodeamus said:
1. Get a tan before you go, I look like a ghost.
2. Eat biltong, actually engulf yourself in it, there is simply no equivalent in Europe and making your own is expensive over here.
3. Wimpy, wimpy
4. Spend as much time with the family until they annoy you, you will miss them.
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I can't tan, will fit right in with the Europeans. :D

I've got 200kgs+ of biltong and droe wors in my freezer (perks of family who go hunting often), trying to consume as much of it as I possibly can.

HavocXphere said:
Do lot's of braais and get a tan like nico says.

Besides if you earn decent coin you can fly back to ZA regularly anyway. Not a big deal
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We braai every weekend. The salary in the Netherlands is insanely good (especially compared to S.A.), however it'll go towards travelling Europe and surrounds as much as possible. Family will come visit us first, then we'll probably come back to S.A. for a long visit end of next year.

My wife has been over there for a year already, so it's not as if we're going into this completely fresh.
 
well I am in Paris, if you ever come this side then do msg me. I also use this forum to stay up to date with things in SA. I haven't truly turn my back on the country since I still have the fadamily over there.
 
The only thing I care about in this country is family. Other than spending as much time with those I'd be leaving behind beforehand, I'll just hop on the plane out. Preferably to New Zealand.
 
I got an offer to work in the Netherlands once, the salary was also insanely good, and the rental costs were insanely high too. Good luck though.
 
Nicodeamus said:
well I am in Paris, if you ever come this side then do msg me. I also use this forum to stay up to date with things in SA. I haven't truly turn my back on the country since I still have the fadamily over there.
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I'll take you up on that, the Wife and I have been dying to get back to Paris. I'll be in the same boat, family here that refuse to move no matter what, so will always have one eye looking back.

^^vampire^^ said:
I got an offer to work in the Netherlands once, the salary was also insanely good, and the rental costs were insanely high too. Good luck though.
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This is true, in rand terms you don't get a lot of space for serious cash. Most of the places we're looking at are going for about 1300 euro (just over R20,000), though we're going to start with a small furnished place for the first year, then look at something a bit bigger (and probably further outside of Amsterdam). We've stopped thinking in Rand terms though (apart from sending money back home each month to help out family and pay off our place here) and that helps.
 
In no particular order:

Going to KZN again. We lived on a golf course near Mooi Rivier during a family holiday, for about a week and a half, when I was younger, which was spectacular!
See more South African animals.
A big road trip from PE to somewhere on the west coast -- I've never been beyond Cape Town on that side of the country -- while making a week-long pit stop at my grandparents' place, 'cause I'm sure they'll be dead if I come back one day.
Get as many recipes of South African dishes that I can get my hands on.
 
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