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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake Up with a Bang and the club on nine
- 0:05Speaker 1: four seven, so I.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Think it was Monday evening where Frank and I were
- 0:09Speaker 2: at a business dinner and it was one of those
- 0:11Speaker 2: business dinners where we speak about everything besides business.
- 0:14Speaker 3: And then in the last five minutes we're like, oh wait,
- 0:16Speaker 3: hang on, we.
- 0:17Speaker 4: Came here for a reason.
- 0:18Speaker 3: We came here for a reason, what a water fish base.
- 0:20Speaker 3: But in during the dinner, we we're all getting to
- 0:23Speaker 3: know each other. One of the people at the table
- 0:26Speaker 3: says that.
- 0:28Speaker 2: The day they moved into their brand new house, the
- 0:31Speaker 2: house that they live in now, and they moved to
- 0:33Speaker 2: that house because the wife was going to work five
- 0:36Speaker 2: minutes away from the.
- 0:37Speaker 4: Even less it was like two blocks.
- 0:40Speaker 3: A five minute walk.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, right, and that's a beautiful house, great neighborhood
- 0:49Speaker 2: walking distance to work. The day they moved into that house,
- 0:54Speaker 2: the company announces that they're moving from Bryanston to Waterfall.
- 1:00Speaker 1: And they had to go down made and they'd spent
- 1:02Speaker 1: almost a year renovating their brand new forever home. That's
- 1:06Speaker 1: going to be so close to everyone's school.
- 1:08Speaker 3: And work, and you're making the suck, no, I promise you.
- 1:12Speaker 2: But then the conversation We then all took a deep
- 1:15Speaker 2: dive into where do you live, why do you live there?
- 1:17Speaker 4: What you know?
- 1:18Speaker 2: What informed your decision to pick the neighborhood that you
- 1:21Speaker 2: live in. And I remember a friend of mine slaves
- 1:23Speaker 2: are saying, you never pick a house based on where
- 1:26Speaker 2: your kids go to school, and I was just like,
- 1:29Speaker 2: I actually, I'm the inverst of that.
- 1:31Speaker 3: I think you pick a house based on where your
- 1:33Speaker 3: kids go to.
- 1:33Speaker 2: School because it should be easier for your kids to
- 1:35Speaker 2: get to school. You can drive to work, right, but
- 1:39Speaker 2: your kids the distance between.
- 1:41Speaker 5: Home and school.
- 1:42Speaker 3: You should should If you can move into the.
- 1:44Speaker 4: School, go for it.
- 1:45Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people do that because
- 1:47Speaker 1: schools are in feeder areas, So to get placement in
- 1:51Speaker 1: the school, you need to be in the feeder area
- 1:53Speaker 1: for the school.
- 1:54Speaker 6: Is that not how yeah, I are, But also what
- 1:56Speaker 6: happens is I know so with us we live close
- 2:00Speaker 6: to the school. Because you don't, You'll be amazed how
- 2:02Speaker 6: much goes on in the afternoons and at different times
- 2:06Speaker 6: and and a lot of schools have a way of
- 2:09Speaker 6: just saying okay, well tomorrow they finish at whatever, and
- 2:12Speaker 6: you're like, what, hang on? Because we work early mornings,
- 2:16Speaker 6: et cetera. It's a lot easier to live close to
- 2:18Speaker 6: the school, so anyone can lift your kid. That's part
- 2:20Speaker 6: of the reason. But a lot of my friends also
- 2:22Speaker 6: choose where their kids go to school based on where
- 2:24Speaker 6: they work, because it's easier if I can take the
- 2:27Speaker 6: kids to school on my way to work and then
- 2:30Speaker 6: fetch them on the way back.
- 2:31Speaker 3: But if literally the.
- 2:33Speaker 6: Only reason we're where we are, right and ask, is
- 2:35Speaker 6: it's a block from the school. Really, yeah, it makes
- 2:39Speaker 6: a huge difference the amount of carting up and down
- 2:42Speaker 6: you do. If we had to actually as mothers and
- 2:46Speaker 6: parents and caregivers both for the hours we spend on
- 2:50Speaker 6: the kids and waiting, we would be jillionaires.
- 2:54Speaker 7: So hear me out, I mean where you live especially
- 2:57Speaker 7: then say, if you're buying, right, it's such as possibly
- 3:00Speaker 7: a lifelong decision. So you're you're making that decision based
- 3:04Speaker 7: on two scenarios. I mean, we'll school, you know, they'll
- 3:06Speaker 7: definitely come to an end that will complete school, right,
- 3:10Speaker 7: The thing is the school never move. Your workplace will,
- 3:13Speaker 7: but your kids will finish. As my point, so do
- 3:15Speaker 7: we stay there post the matriculating and whatever? And if
- 3:18Speaker 7: I change jobs, do we move again.
- 3:20Speaker 6: Well, I'm glad you asked that question, Timpequilla, because we
- 3:22Speaker 6: find ourselves in that position within the next four years.
- 3:25Speaker 6: And my husband and I have said, just for a
- 3:27Speaker 6: change of scenery, we'd like to move halfway between his
- 3:29Speaker 6: work and mine. So that's morning sign that he's not
- 3:34Speaker 6: commuting so much. Yeah, babies too big?
- 3:39Speaker 4: Are you you're gonna move to med Rand? Then?
- 3:41Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, I would like I would like
- 3:44Speaker 6: to go somewhere with a lot of space and just
- 3:46Speaker 6: for a complete change of scenery. But that also again.
- 3:50Speaker 3: Then I said to him.
- 3:52Speaker 5: Don't laugh.
- 3:53Speaker 6: I then said to him, I want to live where
- 3:54Speaker 6: my grandbabies live. He's like, in the next hopefully fifteen years.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Oh yeah, not right away, but I think a lot
- 4:00Speaker 3: of where.
- 4:02Speaker 6: Well, I want to be close to my kids. But
- 4:04Speaker 6: what if they don't live in the same place. I
- 4:08Speaker 6: think it'll it'll really depend on the commuter work once
- 4:11Speaker 6: they finished school.
- 4:11Speaker 7: Oh no, I'm just I'm living where I want to live.
- 4:14Speaker 6: Yes, because you don't have anybody you don't know that,
- 4:17Speaker 6: Oh well, we do know.
- 4:19Speaker 4: We could be sister.
- 4:20Speaker 2: Wives, yahah one one eight thirty eight nine four seven.
- 4:27Speaker 3: What informed you as to where you.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Buy your house where you live right now, did you
- 4:32Speaker 2: do the thing where you say, you know what, let's
- 4:34Speaker 2: find a house that is close to the school, or
- 4:37Speaker 2: did you say, no, the kids are going to finish
- 4:39Speaker 2: school and I'm going to be lift to the house
- 4:41Speaker 2: you know near Saint John's. Let's go where I work.
- 4:45Speaker 2: Let's get a house clost where we both work. But
- 4:48Speaker 2: then your job will change. Who's to say that you
- 4:50Speaker 2: always going to be in the job. Therefore, when you
- 4:53Speaker 2: face with those two scenarios, which road do you pick?
- 4:57Speaker 1: Because someone's going to end up compromising. So like with Sydy,
- 5:00Speaker 1: her husband drives, He's going to drive further to work,
- 5:02Speaker 1: then maybe she does and the kids go to school,
- 5:05Speaker 1: someone someone in the family is going to end up
- 5:07Speaker 1: traveling her.
- 5:07Speaker 2: I say, the one who's working must be the one
- 5:09Speaker 2: who compromises, because you're working anywhere you really just lived
- 5:12Speaker 2: to the machine you off your go.
- 5:14Speaker 3: The kids must be close to the school.
- 5:15Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's also relative.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Like if I'm living in the north and I work
- 5:20Speaker 1: in the South, now I'm traveling for an hour every day,
- 5:23Speaker 1: hour and half.
- 5:23Speaker 5: Every day, and you're the bird winner and back and I'm.
- 5:26Speaker 4: The bread winner. And then you guys are still eating
- 5:28Speaker 4: the drumstick before I get home.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Yeah on one one eight thirty eight ninety four seven.
- 5:34Speaker 2: How did you make your decision? How did your family
- 5:38Speaker 2: do it? There is a family currently in this conversation
- 5:41Speaker 2: right now.
- 5:42Speaker 3: The decision has.
- 5:43Speaker 2: To be made by the end of this week, and
- 5:44Speaker 2: I think this conversation is going to help them make
- 5:47Speaker 2: that decision. So all hands on, Dick, let's hop out.
- 5:49Speaker 2: You're sending us a voice notut zero eighty four double zero.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Did I say a wice?
- 5:54Speaker 3: We're sending us a wasice?
- 5:55Speaker 4: Noose? Maybe we need to be close to the school.
- 5:59Speaker 3: English teacher child there.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Zero eight four double zero double zero nine four seven.
- 6:04Speaker 2: If you're sending us a voice note, how did you
- 6:06Speaker 2: decide where you live? And I want you guys to
- 6:10Speaker 2: throw phrases like for our forever home, forever forever. I
- 6:16Speaker 2: moved from Mondo to Bracnest because my children were going
- 6:20Speaker 2: to school in Brakenest.
- 6:22Speaker 5: We chose a place that is close to both grandparents
- 6:26Speaker 5: because that is our health.
- 6:28Speaker 7: No is I won't have my child go to school
- 6:30Speaker 7: where I work because what if I'm having one of
- 6:33Speaker 7: those fight.
- 6:33Speaker 8: I believe what happens in my child now must be
- 6:36Speaker 8: absent from school for no reason.
- 6:37Speaker 2: This is little from putting each other a quart pot
- 6:40Speaker 2: in the Free State.
- 6:41Speaker 5: I'm about to get married, I think next year.
- 6:44Speaker 7: The only reason why we're staying where we are staying
- 6:47Speaker 7: is because I work in the same area.
- 6:49Speaker 5: But now what's weird is.
- 6:50Speaker 7: That my fiance wants to move to South Korea so
- 6:53Speaker 7: that we can explore being educators in South Korea.
- 6:56Speaker 3: I'm not doing that.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Oh, y'all are gonna have problems because three stages are
- 7:01Speaker 2: far from South Korea.
- 7:03Speaker 7: Two things, no one ever says my dream home is
- 7:06Speaker 7: in Quaqua except for Maria and see in the La
- 7:08Speaker 7: let's see why he wants to move.
- 7:10Speaker 1: There's also no direct flights from Bloomfonteine to a career.
- 7:14Speaker 6: Also, you might want to establish what your dreams are
- 7:17Speaker 6: together as a couple before you get married.
- 7:20Speaker 3: Just out of Johanna's body, just four hundred started. Just
- 7:25Speaker 3: put your toe.
- 7:26Speaker 2: In the hot water in Johannesburg and let's see how
- 7:28Speaker 2: that works out before you, guys, all the way to
- 7:30Speaker 2: go to South Korea.
- 7:32Speaker 9: Eden.
- 7:32Speaker 3: Well, we're coming to you. Good morning, Andy le.
- 7:34Speaker 9: Good morning, and how are you Andy?
- 7:39Speaker 3: Guys, we are curious. We are Nosey Parkers today. Where
- 7:42Speaker 3: do you live and why do you live there?
- 7:44Speaker 9: So we actually did in the River. We moved to
- 7:47Speaker 9: Edinblle first, then found a school eight minutes away from
- 7:50Speaker 9: our daughter.
- 7:51Speaker 3: Nice.
- 7:52Speaker 9: Yeah, so I worked in Rosebank at the time and
- 7:55Speaker 9: it was like a twenty minute commute and now work
- 7:58Speaker 9: in four ways and then officially annually because my daughter
- 8:01Speaker 9: does rowing and she gets back to school at six.
- 8:04Speaker 9: So when I get home, my daughter gets back to school.
- 8:07Speaker 9: So we go together, come home together.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, I think Cindy said this.
- 8:13Speaker 2: With the amount of activities that schools are, you know,
- 8:15Speaker 2: putting the kids through, and I mean I'm not making
- 8:18Speaker 2: it sound like it's all human torture.
- 8:22Speaker 3: The kids like it, and.
- 8:23Speaker 2: You want your kids to be active and you want
- 8:24Speaker 2: them to be part of the school community. With the
- 8:26Speaker 2: amount of activities that the kids are doing in school,
- 8:28Speaker 2: I would say it is more beneficial to live close
- 8:31Speaker 2: to the school just for you as well, because think
- 8:33Speaker 2: about it, Saturday morning, you guys have to be there
- 8:35Speaker 2: five in the morning.
- 8:36Speaker 4: Yeah, now you've got to drive an hour.
- 8:37Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm saying? You can just hop
- 8:39Speaker 2: on over drop them off. And then you go home,
- 8:41Speaker 2: nap a little bit more, and then at nine o'clock
- 8:43Speaker 2: when the match is thought, when your child match is
- 8:45Speaker 2: at like ten, then you come back, right. Is that
- 8:48Speaker 2: what you're saying, Andyla.
- 8:49Speaker 9: It is also what people also don't realize the community
- 8:52Speaker 9: build closer to the school actually works out for you.
- 8:55Speaker 9: So I'm asting, I'm watching a mom and there's been
- 8:58Speaker 9: instances where other moms there waits to school picked up
- 9:01Speaker 9: my daughter all dropped off my daughter.
- 9:04Speaker 4: You see.
- 9:04Speaker 2: Yeah, And also properties around schools are generally always in demand,
- 9:11Speaker 2: so resell value wise when it's time to sell your house. Now,
- 9:15Speaker 2: let's say your daughter has gone varsity and she decides
- 9:17Speaker 2: you're living in France, you can always resell that house
- 9:20Speaker 2: because it's eight minutes from a.
- 9:21Speaker 3: Very good school.
- 9:22Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Like the property value, yes, and especially the school that's rowing.
- 9:27Speaker 3: That's when you know the school's good because.
- 9:31Speaker 5: Because you need a damn, you need a damn for rowing.
- 9:33Speaker 3: There they are in the escape growing to school.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Oh one one eight eight very eight nine four seven.
- 9:40Speaker 2: If you are picking your home, where are you're going
- 9:43Speaker 2: to live? What informs that decision is that you do
- 9:47Speaker 2: you pick a home close to the school for the kids.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Do you pick a home close to you where you
- 9:54Speaker 2: and your partner work or where you work.
- 9:56Speaker 4: Who's had to compromise? I still want to hear this.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Yeah, someone in the FA family that's had to say, well,
- 10:01Speaker 1: I'll travel.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Because you've got crazy parents as well who put their
- 10:04Speaker 2: kids in three different schools because the school's good at
- 10:06Speaker 2: this and that school's.
- 10:07Speaker 3: Good at that.
- 10:08Speaker 2: That's why our three children go to three different schools.
- 10:10Speaker 4: How are you doing that?
- 10:13Speaker 2: They do it, they're there, they live amongst us, They
- 10:17Speaker 2: breathe the same air.
- 10:19Speaker 4: It sounds like so much.
- 10:20Speaker 2: Admins zero eighty four double zero double zero nine four
- 10:24Speaker 2: seven get involved. Hello An, It's me Eli, and my
- 10:28Speaker 2: dad says that we should live close to school because
- 10:30Speaker 2: it's easy and he doesn't have to drive.
- 10:31Speaker 8: For my husband and I, once we got married, I
- 10:33Speaker 8: work at Sacred Heart and he works from home. So
- 10:37Speaker 8: when I was looking for a place to live, we
- 10:39Speaker 8: had to find a place that is closer to my workplace.
- 10:42Speaker 8: That's going to be easy for me to travel.
- 10:45Speaker 5: You need to live close to the school.
- 10:48Speaker 10: The reason they started doing the FETO zones is so
- 10:50Speaker 10: that the kids kid to school on time and the
- 10:53Speaker 10: owners wake up too early.
- 10:56Speaker 5: So that's how the school's adopted that.
- 10:58Speaker 10: So define he moved close her to school so that
- 11:01Speaker 10: the kids can wake up a bit late.
- 11:04Speaker 4: Yeah, I had.
- 11:04Speaker 1: I have friends who temporarily had moved to cint today
- 11:07Speaker 1: living job inside. Right, they had to move to Centurion
- 11:11Speaker 1: unforeseen circumstances for like a month or two. Those poor
- 11:14Speaker 1: kids had to wake up at six five five thirty
- 11:17Speaker 1: every morning, napping in the car to get to school
- 11:21Speaker 1: on time because of the drive.
- 11:22Speaker 3: And then you're not effected at school because you're tired. Yeah,
- 11:24Speaker 3: what's it you and Alberton? Good morning, buddy?
- 11:27Speaker 11: How are you?
- 11:28Speaker 3: We're great? How are you? Buddy?
- 11:30Speaker 11: Young to complaint? First time?
- 11:32Speaker 3: First time called Alcome? This has got something to get
- 11:35Speaker 3: off his chests. I like it all right?
- 11:38Speaker 11: What's I think man had to do?
- 11:41Speaker 1: With my wife?
- 11:41Speaker 11: I wastate it away from work until I got married
- 11:44Speaker 11: to her, and then we moved closer to her work,
- 11:49Speaker 11: which was ten minutes away from her. A day later,
- 11:52Speaker 11: she was informed that she can work from more. Evidently,
- 11:55Speaker 11: now I'm traveling one hundred and a day. Very good.
- 12:00Speaker 5: Oh, I don't.
- 12:03Speaker 3: Know what to tell you, but happy, happy, happy.
- 12:07Speaker 2: Live Okay, So now is the conversation. Are you guys
- 12:10Speaker 2: considering moving closer to your workplace?
- 12:14Speaker 11: Surprisingly, we were pleased to meet her daughter, whom we're
- 12:17Speaker 11: trying to look cool for. And if cool, you're finding
- 12:21Speaker 11: closer to my work? She doesn't. She doesn't want to move,
- 12:26Speaker 11: that's fide.
- 12:27Speaker 2: Okay, So I need I need proper location drops here?
- 12:32Speaker 3: Where does your Okay, where do you guys live?
- 12:35Speaker 11: We currently live in Alberta.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Okay, Alberton, and your wife's work is closer, but she
- 12:40Speaker 2: works from home.
- 12:42Speaker 3: And then where do you work?
- 12:44Speaker 11: I work at the airport. Oh, let's take company there.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Okay, so Alberton are how long is that traveliter singing trip?
- 12:59Speaker 3: Why don't I feel like Alberton is close to the airport?
- 13:02Speaker 11: No, it's far, it's fine, and the number.
- 13:07Speaker 3: Is in touching.
- 13:08Speaker 4: You're hearing all of them, man, galues.
- 13:11Speaker 7: You know them.
- 13:15Speaker 3: Okay, So now, but I school's close to the airport.
- 13:19Speaker 11: Yes, the schools that we try to apply.
- 13:21Speaker 4: For because too.
- 13:26Speaker 11: Yeah, she would have to go to school if you
- 13:29Speaker 11: go in King Park.
- 13:30Speaker 2: Yeah, but dude, I'm telling you now, no kid wants
- 13:33Speaker 2: to go to school in Kimpton Park.
- 13:34Speaker 5: Is going to live in Alberton Alberton's lovely.
- 13:37Speaker 11: That's one of the better things. She doesn't want to
- 13:39Speaker 11: move out.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, So keep the family where they are.
- 13:43Speaker 2: You must be the I mean you get to listen
- 13:45Speaker 2: to us every morning huh ha huh.
- 13:49Speaker 12: Every day and listen to you guys.
- 13:53Speaker 4: I'll help you with quickly. Where's church church? Okay?
- 13:58Speaker 1: Now think about it closely because it's one thing driving
- 14:01Speaker 1: to work every day, but imagine how on a Sunday
- 14:04Speaker 1: morning you got to wake up in Kempton Park to
- 14:06Speaker 1: drive all the way to church.
- 14:09Speaker 2: Can always do for ar Yeah, I alway say Goddess everywhere.
- 14:12Speaker 2: That's the point it comes to where you are. Thank you,
- 14:19Speaker 2: We'll see for the school. Lucky you and honey you
- 14:22Speaker 2: talk to us good morning, Anna.
- 14:26Speaker 3: Morning, like, yeah, we're doing.
- 14:28Speaker 2: How are you?
- 14:29Speaker 3: We are great? What's your take on this?
- 14:31Speaker 4: Great?
- 14:32Speaker 12: Great? I think my fake is that parents need to
- 14:35Speaker 12: choose the place to stay based on where the kids
- 14:38Speaker 12: go to school. Because if you look at it that way, right,
- 14:42Speaker 12: the fall that the kids are from school, that means
- 14:44Speaker 12: they need to wake up Ellie, that means they need
- 14:47Speaker 12: to travel a lot to go to school. So p
- 14:48Speaker 12: family get to school. Retired, you know, so you'd rather
- 14:52Speaker 12: there that energy to help them go that to school.
- 14:54Speaker 12: And also it also gives you time to be able
- 14:57Speaker 12: to go back and come and fetch them.
- 15:00Speaker 2: And also it kind it kind of builds and a
- 15:02Speaker 2: certain level of independence around your kids, right, because you're
- 15:06Speaker 2: not going to be able to be the one to
- 15:08Speaker 2: take them to school or drop them off at soccer
- 15:10Speaker 2: extra mans you know all the time. So then they
- 15:14Speaker 2: are forced to build a community where they, Oh, no,
- 15:17Speaker 2: Johnny's parents live next to us, let me build a
- 15:19Speaker 2: relationship with them so that every now and then we
- 15:21Speaker 2: can take a lift with them.
- 15:23Speaker 3: And you as well.
- 15:23Speaker 2: It helps you get to know the people around your
- 15:25Speaker 2: neighborhood more because.
- 15:27Speaker 3: You're picking up other people's kids.
- 15:28Speaker 2: You're like, oh, if your mom can't take you, I'm around,
- 15:30Speaker 2: I'll do it. I think community the focal point of
- 15:34Speaker 2: community is the school. And if you if you're a
- 15:36Speaker 2: person who wants to be part of a community, move
- 15:39Speaker 2: close to school.
- 15:40Speaker 12: Yeah and yeah.
- 15:47Speaker 2: Right yes, And then you guys wanted to other at
- 15:50Speaker 2: the pick and pay and at the checkers, and then
- 15:52Speaker 2: then soon enough you guys are all parenting together because
- 15:56Speaker 2: you know that's that's that phrase.
- 15:57Speaker 3: It takes a village to raise a child.
- 15:59Speaker 2: You don't the village, The village can still be honey,
- 16:02Speaker 2: you hate, that's the village.
- 16:03Speaker 3: We're not talking huts and and horses yet.
- 16:06Speaker 1: No, no, you need But the point is, I think
- 16:07Speaker 1: what you're trying to say is you need to build
- 16:08Speaker 1: a village. Yes, because that you have to help build
- 16:11Speaker 1: the village that you.
- 16:12Speaker 2: Live in, exactly, and and the easiest way to do
- 16:15Speaker 2: that is to live close to where your kids go
- 16:16Speaker 2: to school.
- 16:18Speaker 3: Back to making your mourning and on nine four seven