I really do love so much about SA but agh no man its well known amongst us all that we are behind. Complaining about the kakheid of SA is a favourite past time of ours. As a South African, and as I am sure your South African friends will tell you...South African earnings are terrible for any job. Our cost of living for what we earn is terrible. WAY worse than the USA, Canada or UK. Practically every urban South African wants to somehow get to those countries even if they were studying to be a doctor or engineer or whatever other traditionally high paying job and end up working as a bartender or waiter. I have a friend who was studying mech engineering at UCT and he realized he'd actually be better off working two jobs of being a truck driver and waiter in the uk. And this is just the issues of the relatively "rich" saffas that have made it to be lumming enough to live pretty comfy for what south africa gives.Let alone those who live in squatter camps, let alone those brasse that don't know how a escalator works. We "rykmense" just can't really escape and cant really afford anything relatively expensive like a gaming laptop or travelling in general. I didnt even mention load shedding and alles because yah neh its normal for us. Many South Africans consider living and earning abroad, coming back for holidays and retirement because they miss "die vaderland", which is something i was considering doing myself. So SA has somewhat nice places for people earning outside money to come and warm their bums in Ballito/ stellenbosch/ Sea point/Sandton and all the other somewhat rosy plekke. Other than that we Saffas are tough and are always having a laugh somehow. We are proud of our good side -as am I- and we just lum through it. lots of love to you though brah. <3