You get what I mean. Those that left for economic reasons have NOTHING to say usually or say little about SA.
And if I leave, it will be for more money- although that ship has sailed now to be honest. I am too old, and it doesn't matter anyway. The economics in my world are working for overseas concerns remotely (NON AMERICAN companies). This is a lesson I had to learn from a family member on my wife's side- he got into that game early, and got stupidly rich. And right now I am not pursuing wealth, I am pursuing a comfortable income, with the ability to throw money at the problems (i.e ESKOM) by self-sufficiency. Because, let the ANC go fuck themselves, and the DA too seeing that they're a mini-version of Hitler's party and just as racist as the ANC, I want to be in my bubble, with electricity and water and comforts.
I left for political reasons due to the knock-on on economic, and municipal etc., since it causes problems with infrastructure like roads, and others like safety, and things like good seniors will leave cause it's actually pretty easy if skilled (knock-on effect of less good companies since people to work there don't exist).
I am working locally, but remotely for an AMERICAN company that is considered large (could possibly crack Fortune 500 if it weren't private); work life balance is fine/pretty good (38.5h work week, of which 6.5h is dedicated to learning opportunities, 25 days of paid leave, infinite sick leave, latter two are just all of Austria thing), and you're talking about a very large country with a lot of people, there are very different types of people -> very different types of companies. The ones that hire the most are those that are crap, so higher turnover, so hire more.
Haven't given up my RSA citizenship since I have no need, by birth Austrian, but every RSA I know here will (or has) given up South African citizenship, and I haven't actually met anyone that's considering going back to South Africa (especially since Austrian citizenship allows longer visits to South Africa, so it's fine).
And you're GENERALIZING those who emigrated to NZ without actually knowing about it, if e.g. FB group, that's an echo chamber.
(And money is good, was while working in South Africa as well, intermediate in RSA was ~R60k gross pm 2020/21, I've basically doubled that as net here with a similar cost of living, again, dependent on you, where you are, and the company you work for; generally more boring work in software pays better, but be careful that it's not a sweat shop).
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