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Where in Africa would you live
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Anonymous
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I said no to South Africa because of the crime. I was constantly jumpy there, due to all the hair-raising stories our South African friends told us. They never went anywhere unarmed. And it's not limited to the cities. We met a family who had a wool farm, a hundred miles from the closest real city. Every other Friday, they had to triple their guards, because on the day that the government assistance checks are issued, people have money for meat, so the thieves steal the sheep and goats to supply the demand.
Madagascar is lovely, but didn't they have some pretty serious political unrest recently? |
Anonymous
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Very little English is spoken in Madagascar or Mali, nor indeed in most of Francophone Africa.
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Anonymous
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DH has family that lives in Ghana - they're British ex-pats. They started out in Zimbabwe and left several years ago because it was getting too dangerous.
They love Ghana. Never question their safety. Very active in both the ex-pat and local communities. The son goes to a local English school and is excelling. It would definitely be a place I would consider living. |
Anonymous
| PP is spot on with the comments on South Africa. Soooo beautiful but the crime is just out of control. It is also just so random, with so little regard for human life. In most places if you are mugged, they will take your wallet and run. In SA, they will take your wallet and then shoot you in the head as they walk away. |
Anonymous
| As a kid (so 20 plus years ago) I lived in Tanzania (dar) and Swaziland. Both places were great and had wonderful schools. Benefit of Swaziland (at least while we were there) is that it was safe and beautiful and very accesible to South Africa and all it has to offer. Good friends who were with us in Tanzania swear by Ghana as being their favorite post. |
Anonymous
What's wrong with Nairobi? I visited and fell in love 
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Anonymous
| Cairo. Almost everyone you'd come in contact with speaks passable English, and it has good English-speaking schools. |
Anonymous
| I have friends who have lived in Ghana and Zambia and said both were the best of Africa. |
Anonymous
| Zambia is very pleasant - nicer climate and countryside than Ghana. |
Anonymous
| Swaziland is nice. |
Anonymous
I lived in South Africa and loved it but had to leave because of the crime. I lived in Johannesburg where it is the worst. It wasn't so much the statistics or the stories in the paper that bothered me. It was the number of people i met and knew who were victims of crime. Robbed, assaulted, car jacked - it was people on people crime not burgulary. I just felt like my number was coming up. It was interested that most people carried guns there including women. I was at a party and the women were all showing off their guns from their purses! When I went to work i had to be checked for bombs and everyone (else) checked their guns for the day. |
Anonymous
| Mozambique, Botswana, Tanzania, Ghana. If I spoke French, then Dakar Senegal. |
Anonymous
| Do they really want you there if you are not originally from there (and no, colonialist descendants don't count either)? |
Anonymous
| I might consider Cairo too, but traffic is insane. |
Anonymous
Well, you have really made a constructive contribution, haven't you? Are you proud of yourself? 1. Many "colonialist descendants" have lived on the continent for longer than the ancestors of most people here have lived in the US. So who are you to decide who "counts" and doesn't? 2. OP intends to work in the health field. Given the mortality and morbidity statistics in Africa this might be something that would be welcomed. |