Is South Africa a good/safe place to live?

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  • treece
    SBR Hall of Famer
    • 11-28-07
    • 6298

    #1
    Is South Africa a good/safe place to live?
    I'm guessing the country is the most white out of all the African countries. I'm watching the WSOP Main Event final table on ESPN right now and the Rahme guy is from there. The World Cup will be hosted in South Africa in 2010 so i'm guessing it must be safe? Maybe someone on SBR lives there but I doubt it.
  • Marigold HD
    SBR Hall of Famer
    • 09-03-07
    • 5053

    #2
    I wouldn't live there
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    • fiveteamer
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      • 04-14-08
      • 10805

      #3
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      • MJFtheGenius
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        • 05-31-07
        • 7257

        #4
        No

        move to Europe if you want to get out of this mess
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        • treece
          SBR Hall of Famer
          • 11-28-07
          • 6298

          #5
          I need to get a car like that. Especially when I go to the ghetto to get some weed.
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          • durito
            SBR Posting Legend
            • 07-03-06
            • 13173

            #6
            It's no Colombia.
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            • TheLock
              SBR Posting Legend
              • 04-06-08
              • 14427

              #7
              I dated a chick from South Africa (Bibiana was her name) back in high school.

              From what I understand, if you're white and have a decent income, it's a great place to live.

              She was from Cape Town.
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              • moneyline
                SBR MVP
                • 01-18-08
                • 1748

                #8
                I lived in Cape Town for awhile. Not only is it a beautiful city, but it is also relatively safe if you don't act like an idiot. Johannesburg is another matter altogether -- a good place to visit if you want to be killed!

                And you don't need a decent income -- at 6 rand to the dollar (it was 11 when I lived there), you will live quite nicely ... winery of Stellenbosch just an hour away ... beachside club called La Med, where backpackers, models, cricket players and the like all hang out together ... Table Mountain and the thirty ways it can be climbed ... the port area with the clock tower for a day of people watching ... partying on Long Street ... space cookies available at the Purple Turtle ... Robben Island to see man's inhumanity to man, as well as the all-black neighborhoods, letting you know apartheid ain't quite dead yet ...

                Great place overall ... but not as great as the U.S. of A.
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                • durito
                  SBR Posting Legend
                  • 07-03-06
                  • 13173

                  #9
                  Originally posted by MJFtheGenius
                  No

                  move to Europe if you want to get out of this mess
                  have you ever even left your state?
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                  • durito
                    SBR Posting Legend
                    • 07-03-06
                    • 13173

                    #10


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                    • donjuan
                      SBR MVP
                      • 08-29-07
                      • 3993

                      #11
                      Johannesburg, no. Cape Town/Durban, yes. Durban is the most English speaking. Cape Town and others are more Afrikaans and then of course Xhosa and Zulu, among others, are widely spoken as well.
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                      • TeamPlayer
                        SBR Wise Guy
                        • 05-19-08
                        • 634

                        #12
                        try living in Somalia......no credit card debt there and you can live the childhood dream of being a pirate
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                        • BrentCrude
                          SBR MVP
                          • 11-16-05
                          • 4665

                          #13
                          Just saw the Mandella 90th birthday on tv last night.Warning Will Robinson!

                          Sure,apartheid was terrible and so was jailing Mandella for all those years.But,now that the blacks have control over things,it's gone totally socialist-communist.It's like getting rid of cancer with chemo and having too much radiation that kills you.Sometimes you can at least live a little longer if you have cancer.It always works that way where you have royalty one day and the next day you have a revolution and the commies take over and it's worse.For Mandella to be propped up to rock star status by liberals just because he and his people suffered is ignorant.The real suffering for the blacks is already taking place and will be worse than when the whites were in power in the form of communism-socialism Mandella and his ilk will serve up to their own people.Watch how down the road with all of South Africa's natural resources only the inner circle of socialists in power will reap the harvest.Whenever commies take over and preach that we are all one big family that will share the rewards BS you better watch out for 2% of the cronies being more equal than the other 98% of the peons.It doesn't have to be a black against white scenario for this to happen.Look at how it worked in the U.S.S.R where the couple percent of the ruling communist elite ruled it over rest.I live in an area of northern Minnesota where it's ruled by transplanted euro socialist democrats and it works the same way here.If you aren't a democrat in the steelworkers union or a part of local government,you are the ugly stepchild.

                          To think,when Obama gets elected this same exact thing will happen to the U.S.A.I can hardly wait!Obama will do for the USA what he and his peeps did for Chicago.You pay a friggin 10.5%sales tax just for the city.Then when all the natives are restless in Chicago and bust down your door on angel dust,you aren't supposed to have a gun to protect yourself.You will get expenses taken care of though if your wife is 8 1/2 months pregnant and you want to kill your baby because it will be too expensive under their leadership to take care of the child.

                          I watch South African horse racing on HRTV and the tracks there look nice.The Dutch and English will always have some influence there.It's a beautiful country scenery wise.I know a couple guys that travel around the world putting drills together for the mining industry and they say crime is out of control there where yes,whites are singled out.
                          Last edited by BrentCrude; 07-18-08, 06:53 AM.
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                          • moneyline
                            SBR MVP
                            • 01-18-08
                            • 1748

                            #14
                            Originally posted by donjuan
                            of course Xhosa and Zulu, among others, are widely spoken as well.
                            Juan, you sound so arrogant ... of course they are spoken. I know they are since I've been there, but for those who have not, "of course" they don't know about those languages ...

                            English is most widely spoken there, however, and I'm sure you never clicked with Xhosa, so that's all that matters for anyone who wants to live there ...
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                            • Deuce
                              BARRELED IN @ SBR!
                              • 01-12-08
                              • 29843

                              #15
                              Jo Berg is fukked. Ethnics steal anything not bolted down. Will kill at a moments notice.
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                              • pico
                                BARRELED IN @ SBR!
                                • 04-05-07
                                • 27321

                                #16
                                murder rate is really high. white girls get raped all the time.
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                                • Tsoprano
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                                  • 04-14-08
                                  • 26374

                                  #17
                                  Australia is the best overall place to live. They are removed from all the regular problems all these Countries have. I would imagine Italy is also very high in quality.
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                                  • treece
                                    SBR Hall of Famer
                                    • 11-28-07
                                    • 6298

                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by picoman
                                    murder rate is really high. white girls get raped all the time.
                                    Why do black people have to be such animals?
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                                    • donjuan
                                      SBR MVP
                                      • 08-29-07
                                      • 3993

                                      #19
                                      Tsoprano,

                                      New Zealand has far fewer problems than Australia, but it also is a slower pace of life.

                                      Moneyline,

                                      Anyone with even the slightest knowledge about SA would know that Xhosa and Zulu are two major languages amongst black South Africans.
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                                      • pavyracer
                                        SBR Aristocracy
                                        • 04-12-07
                                        • 82475

                                        #20
                                        I like the Zulus. Very friendly people. They had me sit in their jacuzzi and even threw some vegetables in the tub while I was relaxing. Then the water temperature in the jacuzzi all of a sudden got very hot and someone threw an oar in the water and started stirring it.
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                                        • betplom
                                          SBR Posting Legend
                                          • 09-20-06
                                          • 13444

                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by pavyracer
                                          I like the Zulus. Very friendly people. They had me sit in their jacuzzi and even threw some vegetables in the tub while I was relaxing. Then the water temperature in the jacuzzi all of a sudden got very hot and someone threw an oar in the water and started stirring it.


                                          Reminds me of an old bugs bunny episode.
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                                          • betplom
                                            SBR Posting Legend
                                            • 09-20-06
                                            • 13444

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by Tsoprano
                                            Australia is the best overall place to live. They are removed from all the regular problems all these Countries have.
                                            Ironic that Australia's early population included a large number of criminals and now is "the best overall place to live".

                                            This must be why the US has the highest number of prisoners per capita in the Western world, they want the same end result as Australia.

                                            USA - crazy like a fox.
                                            Last edited by betplom; 07-18-08, 11:09 PM.
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                                            • RogueJuror
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                                              • 07-08-08
                                              • 10010

                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by Tsoprano
                                              Australia is the best overall place to live. They are removed from all the regular problems all these Countries have. I would imagine Italy is also very high in quality.
                                              Have you live in Australia or been there for a period of time? It ain't all sunshine like it seems from afar.

                                              The same for Italy, specially the souther states they are very poor and neglected, for example Napoli went on a couple of months without collecting garbage, the city was literally a dump. Not to mention the drugs and gang problems.

                                              In quality of life I'ld rate Australia higher than the US and Italy below the US. Drugs creep up everywhere.

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                                              • MJFtheGenius
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                                                • 05-31-07
                                                • 7257

                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by durito
                                                have you ever even left your state?
                                                never left county

                                                too scared
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                                                • durito
                                                  SBR Posting Legend
                                                  • 07-03-06
                                                  • 13173

                                                  #25
                                                  and i get called ignorant on this forum

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