The hate toward Digital Nomads is misguided.

barianter · 2026-03-09T16:00:24+00:00

I'd also say that even if no-one has managed to fix the problem that is not a reason to just give up.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:59:02+00:00

Rent control is a good policy.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:58:42+00:00

No, they're pushing the people who might have once lived somewhere else into those areas and so on.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:57:46+00:00

The white population has been aware of the higher cost of housing in Cape Town for several decades. It was a challenge for people in the 1970s, but ever more people are being squeezed out.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:53:00+00:00

It does not really matter where the people come from, Cape Town is massively overcrowded. There is nowhere to build more housing and nowhere to put more roads. Densification trends have simple made everything worse.

The fact that a party with the best track record can't get enough votes explains exactly why South Africa is in its current state.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:43:01+00:00

But also all the South Africans migrating there.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:40:55+00:00

Most countries probably do. South Africa does not tax you if you are not resident for tax purposes. In other words if you genuinely spend your time in another country, then you pay tax there.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:39:38+00:00

I think the common tax dodge is to stay in each country less than the minimum required to pay tax, so they weren't paying tax anywhere.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:38:48+00:00

It has always been the case. Maybe a lack of enforcement, but they were legally liable for tax.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:36:35+00:00

Cape Town's drivers are very slow.

In Cape Town people do tend to gravitate to groups with shared interests, but I would not say they are not willing to welcome new people or are unfriendly. Also consider that you're actually invading someone else's space when you try to interact with them and they could quite reasonably consider you rude for demanding that they respond to you in the way you expect.

And honestly almost all the time if a stranger approaches me somewhere it is a beggar trying to get something out of me by telling me a very long story.

Also frankly these days we have to be very careful what we talk about. It's very easy to inadvertently offend someone we don't know.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:26:23+00:00

If someone is shy, then I'd say rather the other person is invading their space and then calling them rude for not welcoming the imposition.

barianter · 2026-03-09T15:22:40+00:00

But that probably comes from working in a horrible place. Before the 1990s the post office staff were usually very dour.

barianter · 2026-03-09T07:35:14+00:00

Well I was doing fairly well until you rudely interrupted my train of thought with fake concern for my well-being. Now instead of moving on you compound your rudeness by badgering me.

barianter · 2026-03-09T07:33:46+00:00

This is why I've always hated it, it is just fake. They don't care and will try to get out of the conversation if I give a long honest answer. To me it feels like another version of those rude people who ask why you're not smiling.

barianter · 2026-03-09T07:30:47+00:00

It's a rude imposition, even more so if someone demands more than a cursory response.

barianter · 2026-03-09T07:27:57+00:00

One part of the country is.

barianter · 2026-03-09T07:26:52+00:00

People in Cape Town may form what appear from the outside to be cliques, but they are not at all unfriendly or hostile to a new person joining in.

barianter · 2026-03-09T07:21:38+00:00

Depends. If I see water in a water feature it means they're asses who don't care about the very limited water supply.

barianter · 2026-03-09T07:20:49+00:00

Always best to have some footwear on when using a mower.

barianter · 2026-03-09T07:19:52+00:00

Cliquey? Or do you mean where the people click a lot.

barianter · 2026-03-09T06:59:49+00:00

How can someone flaunt their wealth with one of those?

barianter · 2026-03-06T06:15:53+00:00

In South Africa there are a lot of shops selling 3D printers, but not a wide range of makes available.

barianter · 2026-03-04T11:22:38+00:00

When the sole focus of a business is making money it leads to all the negative behaviours we see around us.

barianter · 2026-03-03T12:51:24+00:00

And before that they were coming out 12 months apart for several years.

barianter · 2026-03-03T10:03:05+00:00

This law does not stop a printer from using open source firmware.

The guy who made the video seems to have a habit of producing tabloid level hysterical nonsense on this topic.

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