Thanks you guys for the chin up!
Had a good crying session last night over a glass of red wine! lol, feel much better today! (nothing like a good old cry to get it out of your system).
By the looks of things, we won't be going in the next two to three years.
I am just a normal accountant, need an honours degree... so, need to get to level 7, plus a year's experience in that callibre.
We live in Stellenbosch, where you pay R8,000 rent for a two bedroom place. So, we are going to buy an investment property (in the new "up and coming" northern suburbs... which in all honesty I've never thought we'd go to... but that's where the most growth is) which we can fix up a bit and make a profit on. May come in handy when we leave. See, sacrifices.
Plus, we might just end up keeping it and pay it off from NZ. (See, I think it's going to be like London where the currency difference came in very handy... which might be the wrong way of thinking.) We are planning on getting along on public transport and getting the most for our money. We normally are very good and ended up not even eating meat in order to save money whilst in London.
I don't know, just a bit confused at this moment, but still think buying property is a good thing if you can afford it, because there's a massive rental market now (since not everybody can buy at the moment).
The place we saw last night had a bond repayment of R5,400.00 but has tenants in that pays R6,000.00 per month.
Either way, I'm going to do my best to get there as soon as we can!
Hopefully the recent reports I've read that financial skills are getting short in NZ will mean that we end up on the shortage skills list.
Just slightly depressed about it all... will come right! x
