My 500th Blog Post: 5 Things I Love and Hate about Joburg

23 October 2014

1) What I love about Joburg: The people

Condé Nast that Johannesburg is the world’s unfriendliest city Raymond

Raymond, a street vendor in Newtown.

1) What I hate about Joburg: The traffic

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Gumtree: One Woman's Trash is Another Man's Treasure

30 April 2014

I don’t normally do “sponsored” posts. I have no interest in writing about forex exchange companies, grocery coupons, or casinos in Brunei, and these are the kinds of sponsored post offers that I normally receive.

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An American Migrant in Johannesburg

16 March 2014

I’ve been thinking about migration.

mi·grant***1. One that moves from one region to another by chance, instinct, or plan.***2. An itinerant worker who travels from one area to another in search of work.

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Registering a Car in South Africa: An Expat’s Epic Journey (Part 3)

16 January 2014

Part 3 of a 3-part series. Read part 1 and part 2.

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Registering a Car in South Africa: An Expat's Epic Journey (Part 2)

15 January 2014

Part 2 of a 3-part series. Read Part 1.

As I was saying…I came full-circle.

I started my epic journey at the Randburg Licensing Department, at 11:00 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, only to learn that Randburg only accepts traffic register number applications on Wednesdays from 7:30 to 10:00 a.m. (I need to get a traffic register number before I can register my car.)

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Registering a Car in South Africa: An Expat's Epic Journey (Part 1)

14 January 2014

Part 1 of a 3-part series. Read part 2.

I moved to South Africa in August 2010. In December 2013, I finally bought a car.

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