Fed up with Ex-pats

As a lot of you know I live in Oxfordshire and for some reason or other am surrounded by Ex-pat South Africans. In the past two weeks I have spoken at length to at least four of them who constantly bemoan their own country to such an extent that if I hadn't lived there or even visited then I wouldn't want to go near the place. In all the years I lived in SA I visited Joburg many times and once had my camera stolen. How did this happen? I left it on the front seat of my vehicle with the door unlocked!!!! Why do they make the place sound as if it is a war zone where the locals sit in bushes waiting for a white tourist to arrive before mugging them at knife/gun point. It happens all over the bloody world you idiots. Once when I lived in Cape Town, Ruth and I were invited to the Overseas Visitors Club for a party to see off a few of Capetown's youngsters who were leaving to live elsewhere.

I asked this one couple why they were leaving: Ahgg, Cape Town has become so African lately!!!!

Where are you moving to: Brixton, London.

Stay there I thought and never come back, you don't deserve the wonderful place you were born in.

I have some friends in my local pub who used to go to Cape Town every year and a local SA who lives in the same village has actually put them off going again.

I do have to say though that Zimbabwe is a better place but that doesn't mean that SA isn't just as wonderful a place to visit as well. So now when I meet a SA I tend to avoid the subject otherwise I will get a bit violent and perhaps mug them myself, which would drive them back to SA and that would be a tragedy as Britain does deserves them.