Beautiful little Cape Town this morning, wrapped in cool drizzly morning serenity is almost a different country from the vast thumping snarling sexy confident Joburg that I have just left. To say I love one more than the other would be a lie.. Jozi is a muse and her people heartpoundingly strong, some intoxicatingly inspiring. Wish I could take the potency of Joburg’s energy and counterweight it with the peace of Cape Town - but like falling in love with 2 wonderful yet utterly different beings at the same time - it’s a paradox I’ll have to bear.
..and I’m going to have to choose who I am to live with now. No matter which of the cities I decide to make home I’ll always be craving the other.
The choice staggeringly hard, because the pace of emerging technology keeps reducing relative distance between humans, no matter where they live on the giant ball.. it’s become easier than ever to live local and work global. Flying back over the Hex Mountains, over the winelands at sunset wobbled my resolve: Jozi may have to be mistress to my two-timing soul.
Location is NOT everything. I’m not sure what you’ve decided from your post but the fact remains - today’s world allows you to be ANYWHERE and still be effective.
It seems that although your mind tells you Jozi is better for work, CT is where your heart lies. If things aren’t terrible in CT, why the need for the shift? (and I know we’ve done this in pvt but want to challenge you again…)
Fark I feel like some fickle airhead and just got my bottom spanked for it.. thanks Mike :-P (know I deserved it though)
Truth is exactly as you have it: Jozi is good for my head and Cape Town my heart.. think getting Jozi energy infusion through commutes may be the only sanity.
The one thing that ACTUALLY decimated my decision was the hideous TRAFFIC.. I have no bloody patience for feeling my life ebb away as time slows on the highways of Joburg - there are audiobooks - but it is still a kak way to spend a whole chunk of your life.
In love with the big ole dirty mama Jozi, Johanna gives me hope.. and the men are utterly delicious but the price she exacts is high.