The African Country Everyone Warned You Away From Just Had Its Best Year in a Decade

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Work remotely from stunning South Africa! 🌍 A new visa is changing the game forever!

Living Borderlessly Publishing

Jul 23, 2026

Trivia Question❓

Before we get into it: How much cheaper is a comfortable single lifestyle in Cape Town than the same lifestyle in New York City?

A) 25 percent cheaper
B) 45 percent cheaper
C) 65 percent cheaper

Answer it in the comments once you have read the full piece. We will confirm the answer in the comments below once a few of you have guessed.

Hello borderless souls,

We have been sitting on this one for a while. South Africa is the last stop in our red zone series, and it is also the destination where the reputation and the reality have drifted the furthest apart. You have heard about the power cuts. You have heard about the crime. Some of what you have heard is out of date. Some of it is still true. We are not going to soften either side of that.

Today's piece digs into what actually happened to the power grid, what the visa really requires, and what a comfortable month in Cape Town costs in dollars once you strip out the old headlines. This is not the South Africa of 2023. It is not the brochure version either. It is somewhere in between, and that is exactly the kind of place we built this newsletter to cover.

The full article is up now. Let's get into it!

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