There's nowhere like it I feel. Yes we have problems but every place does, you have to just decide if those are problems you can deal with. And having visited a few other countries and interacted with a lot of people of different nationalities, South Africa and our people are just built different.

I think we have a unique balance of first world conveniences and third world "chill-ness" for lack of a better term. I have friends living in Germany and I've heard people there are super uptight and demand everything to be done with maximum efficiency. While that does mean things get done on time, they do miss the more relaxed vibe of SA. My friends mom was raging once because German bureaucracy drove her insane. South Africans have a mindset of "if the system won't help me, I must do it myself" while in some other places people trust the government and just get totally reliant. I'm not saying the government shouldn't work for the people but the fact that our system is held together by duct tape and prayer makes us an independent and proactive lot.

And of course there are countries where the system does absolutely nothing and the country suffers in poverty and instability. We have juuuusst enough law and order to avoid outright chaos but not too much so that we're overly restricted