Platteland???What do you think is it better to live in a city like Cape town or in a small town?

Question

Friends from varsity came to visit and they can't stop teasing me about my small town.Personally I love my town and want to live here after completing my studies.

Answer 1

Your question isn't very clear, because I think you may have confused "platteland" with "small town". I'm from a small town and it's not the "platteland". Our town is surrounded by mountains. But I love it there. It's great because everyone knows you and small towns have fabulous gatherings. Sometimes we block off our street and have block parties. Everyone rolls out their cadacs or braais and have a jolly time in the street. I kinda miss it because that hasn't happened in years.

Then I moved to Sunnyside, Pretoria. It was great. I was like someone from Carnarvon or some far away place. I couldn't believe the hype. And it went on like that. I loved the hussle and fast life. Little did I know I would end up in Seoul, Korea.

Seoul is one of the most expensive cities on the worls behind the likes of New York and Tokyo. And for that matter the traffic is horrific. More than 70% of the Korean population live here and it's 20 times as busy as Johannesburg. But still I liked it. In Pretoria, I could walk out my flat and shop at Shoprite, but in Seoul I can walk out and shop at blaaaaaahhhhh...nothing. You need to take a taxi everywhere you wanna be!

So, to answer your question..... Small towns rock! Because you can always buy your beer at the local shebeen and shop for things you really need a 100 m's away and have fun with family and neighbors every single day.

That's the most important thing! Having people you can talk to right around the corner. Even when they themselves turn around and talk about you to others!

Answer 2

I kind of stay in both the Platteland and in the Citify.

I think both got its special uniqueness one can not replace. For instance:

The City: I stay in Pretoria, there I have to dress up everyday, put on some make-up, and what is cool, you can take a quick drive to the shop, choose out off a wide range what you want. Sometimes there are so many (for instance shoes), that you leave without any because you can't choose. And you can go out at night, party, experience the city life! Everything is so fast, I mean hello, you can order fast food, Mr. Delivery, try doing that on the Platteland. If you're board, you go watch a movie, or quickly get in your car, and visit a friend. It is actually so easy living in the City.

Platteland: We stay on weekends and on holidays on our farm just outside Bela Bela, where I don't have to put on my designers jeans, shoes, or even make-up ext, nobody cares about what I'm wearing. There I can get on my four wheeler and go buy some Ola Ice cream and Brutal fruit from the little shop where you can get anything from droe wors to chalk. But if you take something, they are basically out of stock. There you hear absolutely silence. There we even swim in a "fish dam", we skate in the mud, and it is soooo cool! There you can totally forget all the worries at work, just enjoy the fresh air and silence. If you really need something that you won't get at the little shop, it is 50km drive to the shops in Warmbaths. (For instance, we needed more hosepipes and we had to buy it in the city) Everybody says hallo, even if you don't know that person! That is what's making the Platteland so nice, Plattelanders is so much different than City People!!!!

Answer 3

Maybe the best way to view this is do as we ended up doing: live 40km's outside of Jo'berg on a small farm which is great for the kids' sense of adventure, but still have the 'joy' of commuting to the city each day for work. It's a bit of a drive (about an hour at peak times), but come a Friday afternoon, once we're home, we're there for the weekend, which is a bit like going for a short break every week.
We have the sense of community in the town that we live near & join in a lot of the activities that go on there, but still experience the city on a daily basis.
I grew up in a small town on the east coast of England, and looking back, had a great time as a kid. We also had other family that lived in London & other cities that teased us about where we were living: my father's answer to that was to ignore them: we had a great, healthy, active life, rather than being cooped up in a flat or tiny house in the middle of a city.

Answer 4

One thing I hate about cities is the hell of getting stuck in traffic while driving. Here in UK I never attempt driving when going to town. Driving in London is worse. Now Durban is not a big city, neither is it a small city, but driving there is still hell. I should imagine driving in big cities like Johannesburg and Cape Town. I really prefer small town just for the sake of hell-free driving.

Answer 5

Well im living in Cape Town and its really beautiful, but hell..... If you dont live very close to your work then forget it... I hate here now. Im going to be moving back to East London at the end of March next year. I miss alot of my home town, but most importantly the fact that it takes me 10 min max to get anywhere even in peak traffic.

Answer 6

ek is baie gelukkig hier op die plaas baie dankie.julle kan die stad kry vir julle