My Honest Review of Cape Town, South Africa | trying2adult
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- There's a lot to love about the city... but it does have it's unfortunate drawbacks. It's time to give my honest review of Cape Town, the city I've been living in for the past 7 years now. I can't talk about everything I have experienced otherwise this would be a very long video, but I do touch on the things I love the most, including the outdoor activities, the diversity in culture and so on, and also the not so nice things including the moody weather and of course, racism. You can't talk about an "honest" review and not mention racism am I right.
Timeline
Intro - 00:00
The Perks - 01:35
The Drawbacks - 04:50
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Hi, I was born and Bred in Cape Town. I also studied at UCT and everything you said here is accurate. Reason why I relocated to Johannesburg. Don't get me wrong, I love my hometown but the subtle institutionalised racism was always something that bothered me, whereas Joburg yeah no, I'm happy. Nonetheless I still love the Cape I'm obviously biased because it's my hometown but hey every city had positives and negatives.
The way you feel about joburg is the way I feel when I visit home in Zim...happiness and peace 😅
I was wondering, what are the negatives you’ve picked up in joburg thus far?
What you describe as institutional racism is about the super wealthy retaining their wealth and power.
Cape Town is full of old money, established way before the end of apartheid. A lot of that wealth has been in the family for generations.
I've spent some limited time around such people and the only thing they respect is extreme wealth. If you're an average middle class guy, they might be polite to you but they'll never take you really seriously, doesn't matter if you're black or white.
I'm talking about the ultra wealthy now. The kind of people who own multiple wine estates or even entire nature reserves.
So yes they might be racist, but they're also no kinder to their middle class white counterparts.
That's clasms.. here Racism is highlighted. Unfortunately everyone picks it up whether you interpret it for your comfort or not. It is a signiture that is there for everyone to see ,its everywhere. You know it ever one living in SA knows it.
@@simphiwerini9652 Whatever. If you're personally experiencing racism in CT, then you would know this, and it's unacceptable.
Sadly, racists are everywhere. They're ignorant stupid people who are also extremely arrogant, and can't seem to see things any other way.
Love your channel Bro! Awesome information!
Thank you bro! Glad you enjoying it! 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Dude your energy is great! Love this content.
Thank you man I appreciate it!
I love your videos omg and your intro is just so amazing.
Thank you Lisa 🕺🏿🕺🏿🙈
Thanks for your efforts in making this ..hollywood style graphical stuff and creative. I may be moving back from the east, you have encouraged me. The best summary i have seen .. very balanced.
The winters are cold ..and wet.. a very uneccessary combination 🤣 So true!
I might move to Capetown next year. Thanks for the vid bro.
You have great energy brother, absoultely loved your presentation! Love from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Great review. Balanced, intelligent. Thank you for the video
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. P
I'm so happy u felt welcomed it makes me glad
loved your review on cape town looking forward to coming to your city would love to hear back from you because i have a few more questions.
Very good video men ! Thank you so much my brother for informations and for sharing your experience in Cape Town. I like so much Cape Town! I watch your videos from Canada 😁👍
Your stuff is awesome and honest. I appreciate it.
Tino this is really great quality. The review is spot on!
☺️☺️ Thank you Mitchell 🕺🏿
You just fed my soul❤️. I love loooove Cape Town
"Wet and cold, a very unnecessary combination"😂😂😂
@@hantusmostert 😂😂👍
Great job brother. From a new South African fan.
Awesome video man! You have a cool accent and your shades rock! Greetings 🖖
Haha thank you man! Glad you enjoyed it!
This is literally a quality content. Absolutely superb. Regards
Thank you, much appreciated! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D
Top-notch content as usual!
🕺🏿 thank you sir!
Hi Tino, Nice work I must say. Keep up the good work. Can I ask, What beach were you in the intro?
Thank you Damilare! I assume you are referring to the first clip where I'm sitting on a rock, that's Glen Beach, a small beach just next to Camps Bay Beach (between Camps Bay and Maiden's Cove)
@@trying2adult thank you so much, would check it out
Born and bred in Durban KZN, about to move to CAPE TOWN. Thanks for your informative view .
Great insight bro .. I'll be moving there in Dec and you had some solid points that gives me some clarity. Any neighborhoods in particular that you would prefer to live in?
That’s awesome man. December has such nice weather. Great time to move here. There’s quite a lot of nice places to stay in Cape Town. I’ve stayed in the southern suburbs (Rondebosch, Newlands, Claremont area) when I was a student and I quite like the area. In town, Gardens, Oranjezicht and Atlantic seaboard areas are quite nice but perhaps some of the priciest areas in the city. I like where I stay now in Bloubergstrand and I have some friends in Edgemead and Century city which are also good and safe areas. There’s a lot more places I haven’t experienced living in much yet like the Northern suburbs, false Bay Area and most of the peninsula. All the best with your move!
@@trying2adult wow thanks so much for the thorough details bro, its much appreciated! I will certainly do my research on the places you've named in addition to a few of the others ive heard of like Greenpoint etc .. cant thank you enough for your evaluated experience. new sub here bcuz of it .. thanks again my friend!! 🙏🏽
@@KelsAcosta just avoid Cape Flats and you'll be fine
@@paddaboi_ wats up bro .. thx 4 the tip, just found out some interesting news. Capetown isn't allowing Americans in currently, so theres a change of plans. Have to go to Ghana for a short while n hope that CPT opens back up !! Disappointed a bit
@@KelsAcosta oh yes, the Coronavirus rules on international travel. When you come to Cape Town again, honestly, avoid areas with majorities of non white peoples because they tend to be townships or ghettos. I am Cape Coloured and I live deep in the Cape Flats and trust me, this is not a place for tourists. And another thing, public transportation is very dangerous (except for maybe the MyCiti bus which operates mainly in the city and surrounding areas) so avoid trains, mini bus taxis (the worst form of public transport available). Rather rent a car or Uber to get around. All in all, just use common sense and be aware of the things above and you'll most likely have a wonderful stay when you arrive 🙌 trust me, the city is beautiful and full of stuff to do.
Great review Tino, I love how very Zimbabwean you sound.... Gosh, it's the Afrikaans accent for me... I suppose it will be a while before I get used to it.
I love Cape Town but when am broke its just like any other city because i would spend most of the times indoors. Rentals are crazy and i agree the night life is too English for my liking. Still to visit RANDs
You are so right! Without some extra cash to spend it's just like any other city... you might be fortunate enough to be blessed with good scenery but that's about it. I so look forward to visiting Rands when this Rona season is over.... which might sadly take a while.
Tbh the first part of this video just made me want to move to CPT, SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
You should! At least maybe for a visit 😅. It’s such a beautiful place here
Can you please show Zimbabwean video has never been there
brilliant video and a nice take on cape town , I am looking to move there to work remotely and relax. Just like any big city I think it would have crime , and be expensive but its how you handle yourself at the long run and live between your means! but fantastic video my friend
Hey where are from? Look out for Wesgro, and get back to me. It's a government founded agency that seeks to make it easier for foreigners to live here.
I’m looking to move there next month
This is quality footage! ✨ Also, please consider making more videos about drones.
Definitely on the roadmap now 👊🏾
Check out the latest one from Casey Neistadt on drones
Hey, great video ! I'm subscribing.
Thank you for a very nice video 😃
Glad you liked it!
Enjoyed your review. How do we get rid of structural racism.
I love your videos man, I stayed in Cape Town for two years in Nothern Suburbs , Bellville and I only explored Nothern Suburbs. I visited town ( sea point and green point ) twice in my 2 years of staying cape town after watching many videos about cape town including yours I regret not exploring cape town but i will come soon. I hope to meet you when i'm there I'm also into tech , I'm studying BSc in Computer Science.
LOVE your accent!
Best and honest review thanks for a foreigner and potential visitor
Change from foreign reg to SA...how was that done?
Nice video bro
I’ve booked to visit January 2022, and all these tubes are making me want cancel. Any advice? Going to in Stellenbosch.
Capetown is heaven on earth. I'm British and know what you will love. I live in Capetown in Strand and Somerset west.
Resisting the urge to say "Black" 😂
Woooaaaaahhhh nooooo 😂😂😂
Literally what I was thinking! :D
I'm jamaican we don't have as much white people liveing in Jamaica as in SA I love all people but I feel if the population of white should grow there are going to bring separation and racism there we don't really have racisms we have classim we have our problem but lately we are building alot whites can come but investers and the ones who is not hateful
😂😂😂
Can you tell us about Zimbabwe never been there
We need a proper video on Zimbabwe
loved the review,it wasn't biased
Thank you ☺️ 😊 🙏
Can you please tell us about ZIMBABWE WOULD LIKE TO VISIT
Certainly looking forward to that! I haven't visited Zim in a while hence why there isn't much content about it but will definitely work on it! Thank you for the suggestion.
Captonian from other Provences and Countries sign in👍✌️👍
🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿 gang gang!
I'm from the Southern suburbs and live in Germany.
I lived in Cape Town (Pinelands) until I was 16. Now live in New Orleans. Cape Town will always be "home" to me.
In London for the same apartment you will pay 2000 GBP a month . In Paris you will pay 3000 Euros a month... Everywhere in the world, big cities equals big costs.
That's a really good point there! Especially cities with big tourist attractions, rentals will always be pricey to compete against the likes of Airbnb
Joburg is quite affordable though
That intro!!!
🙈🙈 glad you liked it!
I actually gasped out loud at the tourist trips to townships?? What a perverted thing to sell.
Why ? Those trips are very popular with tourists and bring money into the township's.
@@roybean7166 it would be like treating the townships like zoos and the people there like animals... if the money goes back to the townships thats fine, but there's something dehumanizing about it
@@AI-gd7lz No, I don't think so. If the people in township's wanted to stop these tours, they could have done it long ago. And I think it does bring money into the township's. Not sure where you live, in SA, or not. Maybe in joburg ?
@@roybean7166 Don't you think that's kind of what makes it so perverted? That the people in the townships *don't* stop these tours, because they want and need the money that comes from being treated like a zoo animal. It's a catch 22.
@@roybean7166 here are what studies say about this:
"Township tourism has become a booming and highly lucrative sector within the tourist industry. More and more companies push into the market in order to meet the growing demand for this kind of tours. In the early days of this development, the tours had been organized by the residents of the townships themselves. In later years, the big and interregional operating (“white”) tour and travel companies also adjusted their offers to this development and included township tours into their (hitherto
conventional) product range."
"The analyses have shown that cultural categories are being introduced by the operators
specifically in order to induce a “cultural view” among the tourists. Rarely do the tourists´ expectations before the tour directly refer to something cultural. Initially, social and above all economic differences are in the focus of the tourists´ interests (“watching the poor”, “looking at the shacks”). Culture or the cultural heritage becomes a centre of attention only
during the tour. The way in which this happens partly reinforces old stereotypes and
clichés of colonial origin (“African superstition”, “poor but happy”). From this perspective, a correspondence between poverty and the cultural “other” is easily produced in the context of township tourism. Thus, an exoticisation of deprivation takes place which entails an
aesthetic configuration or culturalization of poverty. Together with the sense of insecurity
(put into perspective by the security of the minivan), the socio-voyeuristic wants of bourgeois “thrillseekers” are satisfied."
publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/2908/file/pks46.pdf
Great video
Thank you
You're welcome 😊
Spot on, a beautiful city but it needs more inclusitivity. Love my Cape Town - looking forward to u moving here. Thoroughly enjoyed ur video
I spent only a year in Cape Town but I could only afford an occasional kalkbay ice cream after tending to my expenses
I know that spot in false bay. Such tasty ice creams 😋. At least you were spoilt with the views down there
trying2adult It was approved by Jamie Oliver. LITERALLY!!!
Johannesburg is better than Cape town by far . I have a feeling Ethekwini is a best bet for tourists.
😂😂 just Visit Cape Town in Jan - March
I lived in Cpt for 3 years... RIP to all the coins I spend but there are more free fun things to in CPT than Jhb... This place wants my paper😂
It's true, there are specific things that are more expensive but lifestyle is easy there. Here the I pay for the club and hiking...like whattt?
Woooaaahhhh what is this I’m hearing about Joburg not being so nice on the pocket 😭. It’s interesting to know cans are cheaper too 🧐. I bet Cape Town taxis are more expensive though.
@@trying2adult lol it's cause you have taxi assistance... Why do you have them😂
@@trying2adult only thing expensive in CT is property / Accomodation everything else is “cheaper “ compared to other provinces
Hey both my neighbours are black middle class families. The situation in Cape Town is economic more so these days.
Your accent is dope.
😆 Haha thank you
6:32 I agree it is sad, Jhb despite being a bigger and more diversified economy has better value for money.
I like the way you speak English very good English speaking 😁👍
Thanks for this excellent review. I've lived here for a year. I will say, being here for a year I see Cape Town as more of a visiting place, rather than living. JHB is where it's at. Career development in Cape Town is stagnant, hard to make friends here and housing prices are through the roof. You can get 3x more for what you get in JHB as opposed to CPT. Hoping to relocate to JHB. Prefer it there over CPT
I’m so glad that he mentioned the racism in Cape Town.
Your video, B-roll are amazing!!! Let me subscribe you😳
Awesome, thank you! 🙏
@@trying2adult thank you for reply!! I’m looking forward to watch new video!!☺️
In Cape Town once your money ran out you should emigrate or leave. That's what I did. And I miss the place with all its aggressive drivers and corrupt postal system. And I learned the hard way how the locals learn how to commit an almost painless suicide once all your options are out. This comment is dedicated to Lei who after many unsuccessful attempts finally was able to leave this world most likely painlessly bleeding into the bathtub in 1999.
4 seasons in 1 day😅😅
you got a subscription from me
Awesome! Thank you bro 🙏🏾
Flags at wine farms are for tourists
I would say San Francisco is a US equivalent. Cape Town is disparate in many ways. The ocean, the clouds, the fog.
Can a Zimbabwean more easily move to the UK than a South African?
For 7k/month you can buy a mansion in the Brooks Harare. You are lucky to see 3h of electricity a day. Extorted daily for bribes by local police. Going to a supermarket to experience the most ridiculous prices for basic goods. There is no place like home because hell is not far from the Limpopo river
Not true, with that budget more likely Highfields or Mbare than the Brooke. I'd rather run a gamut of congenial police officers wanting a coke than the gamut of car jackers with high powered guns that plague SA. I can't argue with the expensive basic goods jibe.😉
i've never been this early
Gang gang! 💪🏾💪🏾
Cape Town is flawed but it's my home.
I visited Capetown in October 2018 it was stunning experience of my life. Very nice city if almighty gives me chance to travel south Africa 🇿🇦 I will certainly visit in 2022.
So it’s fairly safe¿ I don’t want to get stabbed or robbed😂
When I moved from Cape Town to Joburg, I laughed at how low the rent and house prices are. I laughed at Sandton and Waterfall cause I am so used to the insanity of the prices in Cape Town and beauty. Felt proud of being Africanin Joburg but was extremely disgusted at the filth of Joburg CBD and even Sandton is kind of dirty. I dont miss Cape coloureds as in all honesty they are the most racist people I have ever met. Much better opportunities in JHB with much higher pay and contrary to what I was told, Joburg is SAFER than Cape Town. But I do miss Cape Town, especially the Southern suburbs and CBD
Coloured people don't like black people in cape town? Can you explain more, I'm not from SA
Coloureds are the most racist that is why many of their women marry black guys, or date them. Some of the guys are even dating black girls. It d66oesn't make sense. I assume then blacks and whites from other cities in SA are not racist. Lastly to make such a general statement as if you've met every single colored person in CT is irresponsible on your part.
@@alpirl2921 the apartheid government separated all the races in SA, and instilled a culture of racism amongst all races. In the new SA we are slowly trying to get rid of these planned racism. Since then our schools are multi racial and it works , we see the changes in our kids and the new generations. Ignore the general statements made by people who had maybe bad experiences. You will unfortunately find racism in all the races here, but I personally think most people are doing much better than the past.
Gid rid of that chip on shoulder.
@@alpirl2921 Cape coloreds have an inferiority complex towards whites and a superiority complex towards blacks. They deny and look down on their black ancestry and basically do the racist dirty work for whites. As long as they work above blacks, they dont mind working under whites. I was born in cape town and have lived there my whole life. Thats the sad reality.
Durban is a mess my guy
The reality that a lot of black people from upcountry don't get understand is that the Western Cape's (and therefore Cape Town's) demographics are not like the rest of SA: Black people are not in the majority here - it's Coloured people. Black tribes didn't migrate down past the Karoo because they didn't like the area - it was too arid/dry. Cape Town, therefore, has different people and a different culture. They don't feel comfortable with this and therefore they are displaying, yes, wait for it.... Racism. They don't like that they are in South Africa but don't have an "African" (Black) feel and it makes them uncomfortable.
Side-note: It's evident now that Cape Town is growing much faster than the rest of the country. People are "semi-grating" to the WC. Why? Because it's by FAR the best run, most efficient, cleanest province in the country. Why? Because it's DA-run - or at the very least; it's not run by the ANC. This also hurts a lot of sensitive , racist people.
"a very unnecessary combination" lol
Tourists take tours to sharks. They take tours to museums, to townships and to all other areas of Cape Town. How is that racist?
Institutional racism from a country run by the ANC??
you tell us that CT has the most murders, but show us a chart that clearly shows CT to be number 8. Tijuana is number one. Always be accurate and factual when you're saying something negative.
Maybe the architecture is mostly European because it was built by European descendants?
Yes. It was a European colony for a long time and a lot of the descendants still live here.
Institutional racism is called ...... emmmm
Good place rent R20,000 p/m
Looks European because Europeans build it
🏃♂️💨what's your number?
The rest of South Africa is Africa 😂😂😂
Sounds like Cape Town sold his soul.
get off your high horse on racism. You are just as racist for bringing it up. Different cultures exist in all different cities and places. If you don't like it get up, leave and go back to where you came from. WHY should the people that have lived there for hundreds of years change their ways for YOU!!!!
It is called keeping it real. Dealing with uncomfortable truths 🙃
Cape Town the best we need to be independent from the rest of South Africa
Not in Africa...
Maybe in Europe but never here in Africa..
Go back tò Europe (Holland, UK) cape town is a South African town and shall remain so forever. There are daily flights from Madikizela airport ( formerly known as Cpt airport ) to Europe . Start booking .
@@philipbanda6637 you better apply for a Cape Town
@@philipbanda6637 Madikizela Airport. In your dreams.
@@jasonjumat5070 my dream ? My father tells me that European settlers thought Africans would never rule south Africa.......the rest is history. So who is dreaming ??