Elardus, Sounds really nice where you are. I and 1/2 way between NYC and Philadelphia about 45 mins inland from the ocean. Very rural, country, farms, horses...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 18, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Gibney, Dave wrote: > >> Someday soon I may need to revise my reluctance to relocate. > > Similar trends are also happening in South Africa. If you want to be filthy > stinking rich, go live and work in Johannesburg, Sandton area to be > precisely. Most rich IT companies are there - but they have a somewhat high > staff turnover. > > Turnover is the result of greedy employees, but crime, bad traffic, crime, > high cost of living, crime and expensive housings (and once more: crime!!!) > are amongst the main reasons. > > Pretoria, Centurion and Cape Town also have a lot of IT companies - there > things are more laidback. > > Where I'm living in Centurion, the area is not too bad, but is becoming > growing from a big town to a big city in itself, but there are no buildings > higher than 10 stories here around. Generally, I like this area - lots of > houses, shopping centres, parks, lots of trees, etc. I drive, for example, > past a milk farm [1] to my work everyday. About 20 kilometers from my home > there is a game reserve park (one of several) [2] with rhinoceroes and lots > of birds and a dam where you can angle at leisure. > > There are at least 6 big dams where you can angle all within 100-150 > kilometers from where I live. > > So, I'm also like Dave, absolutely too reluctant to move at all. ;-D > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > [1] - http://www.irenefarm.co.za/ > [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietvlei_Nature_Reserve > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
