Thanks to its beautiful beaches, great restaurants, friendly communities and wide choice of properties, Cape Town has just been voted one of the 10 best places in the world to live in a survey conducted by the UK Telegraph and Sotheby’s International Realty.
Readers of the newspaper named Camps Bay and Hout Bay as their favourite parts of Cape Town, and sang the praises of the Cape Dutch homesteads in the Southern Suburbs and modern apartments overlooking the V&A Waterfront, notes Lew Geffen, chairman of Sotheby’s International Realty in SA.
"They also listed the Cape’s amazing wine, mountains, fun-loving people and outdoorsy lifestyle among the many factors adding to the city’s appeal."
The online survey was undertaken last year after the Telegraph learned that one in three Britons is now considering emigration, and it asked readers to recommend the top spots for these people to settle, by planting pins on a virtual map of the world.
It drew a huge response from readers all over the world, and a wide variety of recommendations, some of them quite unexpected. The other nine destinations among the top 10, for example, included Hong Kong, New York City, Maui in Hawaii, Barbados and the Turks and Caicos islands, but also the North Island of New Zealand, Tasmania, Buenos Aires and Victoria on the west coast of Canada.
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