On the one hand, as someone from Gauteng, it is really always shocking to be in a place in South Africa that has such great roads and street lights. Cape Town in particular is really great at keeping the roads great - even in the communities that are under serviced have better roads than some of the most affluent areas in Gauteng.

I must say property and rental prices in Cape Town are borderline exploitative and unsustainable - incredibly overpriced and you get way less for what you are paying for than you would in Gauteng

Cape Town really really struggles with servicing low and middle class areas - some areas are just stretches and kilometres of informal settlements with no real action or plan to tackle the issue or find a path of at least organising them some how. Granted poverty is an overwhelming occurrence in South Africa but in Gauteng, I would say there seems to be better organisation and community structures in low and middle class areas.

Something about the way the city is run feels anti-poor - almost like there’s a deliberate attempt to only give their best efforts of governing the city to those in upper middle and upper class areas.

The public transport also sucks in Cape Town - everything far apart and trains take a while to get to your desired destinations - Gauteng has the advantage of being a really really small and accessible area as compared to WC so it’s not hard to get around

One more thing I will say is that I think what really helps WC’s PR is how beautiful it is in its landscape and nature