Hooray for Illinois - NOT

[CrealCritter]

Chicago is most corrupt big city, Illinois third most corrupt state in country, study finds

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-...ird-most-corrupt-state-in-country-study-finds

 

[sumi]

I feel your pain... Look at what I left: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/south-africa-ramaphosa/554762/

 

[NH Homesteader]

Fascinating and depressing read @sumi and so glad you were able to get yourself and your son out of there!

 

[CrealCritter]

Fascinating and depressing read @sumi and so glad you were able to get yourself and your son out of there!

+1 glad you got out of there.

 

[sumi]

Thanks NH H and CC. I say "thank you" nearly daily for being able to live here and raise my son here. We've been blessed and hugely so by Ireland taking us in.

They didn't mention in the article the other huge problem S.A. is facing right now... The blacks are being actively encouraged to kill the whites and in addition to that white owned property are being taken off them, without compensation. Or that our education system is in the mess it's in, because kids go up to 10th grade without bothering to READ AND WRITE, because they simple can't be bothered to learn and the schools are not allowed to fail them!!

You cannot make this stuff up! Things are terrible down there now. All we can do is pray...

 

[CrealCritter]

Atrocious

 

[Rammy]

Wow.

 

[NH Homesteader]

That's terrible. What's sad is that all I've heard about South Africa is apartheid is over, everything's fixed yay! I mean, without seeking out the information anyway. It's very sad and not a good place to grow up it sounds. People in fortunate countries like the US should spend more time looking into what the majority of the world lives like on a daily basis. It sure makes me feel bad for complaining that I need new shocks on my car and we had a 2 hour power outage this week.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

X2 - everything!

 

[sumi]

That's terrible. What's sad is that all I've heard about South Africa is apartheid is over, everything's fixed yay! I mean, without seeking out the information anyway. It's very sad and not a good place to grow up it sounds. People in fortunate countries like the US should spend more time looking into what the majority of the world lives like on a daily basis. It sure makes me feel bad for complaining that I need new shocks on my car and we had a 2 hour power outage this week.

I don't want to "down" this thread, but things have gone from bad to terrible in S.A. since apartheid ended. The country is falling to pieces. Google "Eskom & load shedding" for an example. Keeping in mind the cost of electricity (to consumers) went up by nearly 400% over the last 10 years...

DO NOT Google anything related to violent crime, farm murders etc. (There is a lot of extremely graphic and upsetting stuff posted and shared about that online, so I'd suggest just avoid it completely) Just take it from me, whites are being murdered daily, especially farmers and their families. I personally survived two attempts on my life, the second one nearly succeeded.

Things are BAD down there.