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Why leave? Reason #21: Totally 100% and more in love with South Africa
The most important reason is our last: we are in love. Madly in love. Completely intoxicated with the love for ...
Read more Why leave? Reason 20#: This would be it…
If we don't go through with this emigration we will have to live this life till we retire. Sounds maybe ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #19: Health
Warmth and sunlight are two things we love so much. We are not per se the typical sunbathing types, but ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #18: Threat of terrorism
When we were for the very first time in South Africa and more specific in the lower bush during our ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #17: Are Dutch lives worth more?
This might sound ridiculous. To us it is ridiculous and super annoying. We refer to all the news of terrorist ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #16: Don’t feel the need for suburbia
There are many translates of this particulair phrase and suburbia is the best translation in our opinion. However nothing nails ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #15: Adventure
Another reason to emigrate is because we want to do something with our lives and go on an adventure. It ...
Read more Why leave? Reason # 14: Complaining
In this series we try to explain what we like more about South Africa compared to the Netherlands. Which you ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #13 Political correctness
The Netherlands is a developed country which earned its credits. If you take a look at all the various lists ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #12: Climate
Even if you love the Netherlands there is no way of denying that the Dutch climate is not the best. ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #11: Our dream house
Doesn't everybody sometimes dream to build their dream house? Like a game of The Sims? Well we certainly do and ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #10: Space
This is going to be a very short post 🙂 We are going to have so much space, it is ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #9: Awareness
Here in the Netherlands we work as volunteers at the zoo. This is to provide information about the animals to ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #8: Overregulation
This drives us crazy. It is also a strength of the Netherlands. There are many rules to make sure that ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #7: The Dutch society
The Dutch society is one of the main reasons for us to search for a better place. But what is ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #6: A job is not the most important thing in life
Wiebe works as a lawyer. He has his own law firm. He has many interesting cases and victories. He finds ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #5: Intense love for animals
This is for most people the most obvious reason why we want to move to South Africa. First of all ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #4: Thirst for nature
Our fourth reason is a very obvious and simple one: we love nature! We love every little bit about it. ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #3: Performance society
The Netherlands is eminently a performance society. It starts right after you are born. Every child should learn certain skills ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #2: Quietness
Quietness is also very high on our list. With quietness we don't mean completely deafening sillence, we mean to hear ...
Read more Why leave? Reason #1: Freedom
People ask us all the time why we want to emigrate? And why South Africa? Most people think that it ...
Read more Rollercoaster weeks
Tuesday, june 29, was such a sad day when we heard that the plot of our dreams was not going ...
Read more Crushed, but still standing
Well it was not the best day last tuesday. The broker told us that the seller wanted more money. We ...
Read more Presentation of the Xongile Lodge logo
Last week we received our logo! The logo is made by Mastejo and we can highly recommend them. They also did ...
Read more Find our hometown – III
In our last blog we told you how excited we were about Grietjie Private Nature Reserve. In May 2017 we ...
Read more Find our hometown – II
In our blog we are still a couple of months behind and so much has happened in the last year ...
Read more Find our new hometown – I
After we decided to give our plan a chance we needed to visit some villages to chick if we can ...
Read more Holiday home or emigrate?
We've established that we like South Africa, but do we like it for holidays or do we like it enough ...
Read more What is the first step?
We would like to start this blog with our thanks to all of you who support us in following our ...
Read more The start of a big adventure
Hi everyone, This is day one of this blog, but certainly not day one of our great adventure. That started ...
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