Why South Africa
I went on a hike yesterday morning (Christmas Day) and was again struck by the number foreigners not only visiting our shores but also making South Africa home. I am particularly interested in those foreigners who move here out of choice as opposed to desperate circumstance in their own countries. What motivates a german, dutch and brit all considered to be from 1st world countries, to leave those places and move to a developing country. Surely it cannot be something as simple as the weather (exception being the Brits, where it may very well be the weather). I have spent short amounts of time in Germany and the UK and quite frankly, I was struct by the sameness of it all. As an adult I got the sense that one is told every day, minute by minute, hour by hour how one should live, what to wear, where to live, and what to do by society and government. There is very little chaos and messyness in life.