Semigrating to the Western Cape

Moving to Cape Town

Cape Metro · Western Cape

The full city, with everything that comes with it
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Life in Cape Town: The full city, with everything that comes with it

Cape Town is the option people choose when they do not want to give anything up. International flights, specialist medical care, the widest school choice in the country, and an economy big enough that changing jobs does not mean changing province again.

It is also the most expensive and the most congested option here, and the suburb you pick matters more than anywhere else on this site. The difference between a twenty-minute and a seventy-minute commute is often a few kilometres and one mountain, so drive it at the actual hour on an actual weekday before you commit.

Families semigrating from Gauteng tend to sort themselves into three broad camps: the southern suburbs for schools, the Atlantic Seaboard for lifestyle, and the northern suburbs or Blouberg for space and value. All three are legitimate; they are simply different trades.

Key Highlights of the Cape Town Lifestyle

  • The widest choice of schools in the country. Public, independent and international curricula — but the good ones have waiting lists measured in years, not months. Start earlier than feels reasonable.
  • Direct international flights. It matters more than people expect once family is spread across continents.
  • The southeaster is not a myth. It blows hard through summer, and it varies enormously by suburb — one of the few things a weekend visit in April will not tell you.
  • The property spread is enormous. Suburbs fifteen minutes apart can differ by a factor of three on price per square metre.

Table Mountain seen across the bay from Blouberg
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