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"I'm a local, and I just wanted to say thank you SO MUCH for your blog. Often when working with expats I get a sense of humour failure. Why do they talk about the toilet so much (especially because Cape Town isn't exactly the bush - you can eat quite safely) and wear such a strange combination of local clothes? Why do they ignore advice about safety? Why do they lecture me on the history of my own country? And then I read your blog. And it's all so true!" H
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Oh yes! And I would argue there has been an inflation of these in the past few years too. Ever larger amounts of living documents are being produced by ever larger number of EAWs. And what happens to the value of anything during an inflation?