| Re: Places to live [boodskap #10674] |
Tue, 09 September 1997 00:00 |
Stefan Andreasson
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Henri-John Kock wrote:
> True. Pretoria is (or used to be) a city of civil servants. Businesses
> are there to be found, but the civil service used to be the great
> employer. This meant a couple of things:Between 15:45 and 17:00 you
> can't move in the cbd, because all the civil servants are going home.
> Traffic like you won't believe.
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> It used to be a very Afrikaans city, probably because of the civil
> service thing. That's changed now. The business language is english.
> Shops in the East have ignorance of Afrikaans as a requirement for their
> employees (joke). Seriously, it's become a more cosmopolitan place.
> There are, for instance, quite a lot of Oriental people living there.
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> I find that people are not as stressed, not as hasty as in Johannesburg.
> It's not a country atmosphere by a long shot, but I've found that, for
> instance at a four-way stop people are slightly more laid back about the
> whole thing.
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> J'burg's cbd is easier to get lost in, because of the poor layout (a
> result of the minig town which grew so quickly). Pretoria's cbd has
> straight, long streets, and quite a few one-ways.
>
> Culturally: Pretoria is the place for Ballet and Opera.(Read: State
> Theatre) There are a couple of small live music venues, one Jazz place I
> know of, a few blues places and some small theatres. There are about 8
> to 10 cinema complexes (more if you include Centurion and Midrand), but
> no dedicated art cinema house. It's older than Johannesburg. Museums are
> quite common, if it's your thing.
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> The national Zoo is there. There's an ancient crater museum a few
> kilometers north. Also a few kilometers north is the Carousel, for all
> your gambling requirements.
>
> It's a nice place. The money's more to the south, in
> Midrand/Johannesburg, but Pretoria's within driving distance of these
> too.
>
> Hope this helps.
Helps a lot, thanks! Well, are civil service jobs still attainable for
college educated (graduate degrees) foreigners?
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Stefan Andreasson
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