People from Johannesburg often say, that when looking for a house in the city, "Location is Key". This is genuinely true. The location of your home makes a huge difference between a good standard of living and bad. Many years back, I regularly commuted between Pietermaritzburg and Durban and didnt struggle. In Johannesburg, driving from A to B is tiring. The main reason is the regular stopping and starting in traffic jams and accidents. When we first moved here, we decided from a strategic perspective that we would seek a home in Greenside/Emmarentia. These areas were historically majority White but in recent years has seen a massive movement of Indian Muslims moving in. Most of these people used to reside in the suburbs of Mayfair and Lenasia and have moved in primarily because it is an upmarket neighbourhood (you dont see a lot of riff raffs and beggars)situated close to the Sandton and Johannesburg CBD's and surrounded by good schools, shopping centres (the Zone and Cresta), parks, a dam and a golf course. Our reasoning for wanting to and moving into this area conformed with the majority.
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