Enjoy your time in the US Sister Velile. Your Channel helped broaden my scope and see that one can live an opulent lifestyle in rural South Africa without breaking the bank. I’m grateful 🙏

@benbo7042

4 ай бұрын

True

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. I am happy to hear this. 🙏🏾❤️

I miss the fresh food in SA. The food in Africa is fresh. When I went to Woolworth in SA, the fresh fruits and vegetables blew my mind. You tell no lie.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Very true. 🙏🏾🩷

Sis Vellile i like what you doing for us, please take care of yourselve's we love you

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. Stay blessed too. 🙏🏾❤️

I'm so happy to have come across your channel Velile.First time,to've come across someone from kwaZulu Natal.Im from eThekwini. You speak the truth. I grew up, spending a lot of my time with my extended family at kwaDukuza.I grew up eating food ,grown from home.I miss South Africa and my grandmother and village life a lot. I'm so proud of you.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. 🙏🏾❤️

Velile, I know exactly your concerns on eating proper food. That's one of the reasons I want to move to S.A. It's very hard to eat proper in the States which it shouldn't be like that. Please read the labels and yes it's a science project. I go through it myself. If you don't drink regular milk there's a brand named Elmhurst which is just almonds and filtered water. The others have gum in them "not good for you." Blessings

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

I have seen people my age talking about they have heart blood pressure and diabetes and looking like they very old because of the food they eat. I can’t be that. 😂😂🙏🏾❤️

@deboragittens3363

4 ай бұрын

@@VelileLifestyleDecorTV when are you having your next event? I would really like to attend. The goal is to move no later than next year.

I always knew in my heart,you going places,as South Africans we are very proud of you,Sis Velile, keep shining. I personally would like to see you, running online mentorship programs for people who are seriously considering investing in property market as a whole. I do feel like there's a lot of unexplored territories within this industry. I for one would sign up and select a package suitable for my pocket.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Thank you and I appreciate your insight. I will consider this. Great idea. 🙏🏾❤️

Just started following you today... and I have already watched 4 videos, and I love them. I'm watching all the way from Malawi 🇲🇼.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much and welcome to the family. Peace and love. 🙏🏾❤️

Try to use grape seed oil Velile for cooking and frying, use olive oil only for dressing salads❤

Your vlogs are breathtaking. Keep up the good work. You making us to be proud of where we are coming from. Proudly rural girl ❤❤

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Proudly rural indeed. 🙏🏾❤️

Good on you, yes we are away from our beloved country, save , save save them dollars, than home home is calling

Food is expensive in the U.S even by the U.S. standards. We locals have been noticing the cost of living going up every year. That's one of the reasons why a lot of people/Americans are leaving the country.

Thanks Velile for taking us with you to the USA and showing us the real life out there. All the best in your stay, enjoy.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

🙏🏾❤️

Thank you very much Velile for all this information.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

Ай бұрын

🙏🏾❤️

Thanks!

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much. I really love and appreciate you. 🙏🏾❤️

Nice.glad you're getting into the swing of things... love your silver jacket! 🙂

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

🙏🏾❤️

I'm so sorry you had to move to America. I'm doing the opposite. I'm moving to SA for a better quality of life.

Oh just a little sharing when you buy bread pull from the back. There fresher usually the ones in the front is oder and their strong sell those first.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. 🙏🏾❤️

Thanks for the music too

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

Ай бұрын

🙏🏾❤️

Thank you sis Velile we love you as Mzansi(South Africa) keep holding the flag higher.....

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

🙏🏾❤️

With regard to your tours, I hope you will be collaborating with KZN Tourism, and crisscrossing the whole of KZN to places like Valley of the Thousand Hills, Drakensberg Mountains, Isimangaliso Wetlands, King Shaka Memorial at Kwadukuza, one of KZN cultural villages and famous battlefields.

@ronaldabuezubane7397

4 ай бұрын

Forgot our game parks, Hluhluwe being our flagship game park. I believe all provinces including KZN are less marketed than Western Cape. Without any doubt, the Western Cape is beautiful, but other provinces like KZN have their own unique beauty and culture which you can never find in the Western Cape. Some tourists are less interested in highly westernized places like the Western Cape, and are looking for an authentic African experience, that you can never find in the Western Cape. It is time for KZN and other rural provinces to showcase their uniqueness.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Yep that’s the case. Feel free to join in too. 🙏🏾❤️

@ronaldabuezubane7397

4 ай бұрын

Very glad to hear that.😊😊 I am happy to be just a cheerleader at this point. I traveled every corner of KZN (my home province) for the whole year, after taking a sabbatical in 2013. At that time, I knew Gauteng better than KZN, after working there for 14 years from my youth days. Now, I appreciate and love KZN more than ever, after my travels.

lm glad you managed to find Organic stores though,

Thank you for sharing this information sisV. All the best on this journey.👍 😊

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

🙏🏾❤️

You have an apartment 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

It looks like it's very cold 🥶 there. ❤ Proud 👏 of you. We are learning so much with the difference in way of life , especially cost of living. One gets to appreciate South Africa 🇿🇦. The price of bananas 🍌 blew me away in the last video. Keep warm sis ❤

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Our country is good in many ways. I will keep sharing on what I mean about this. Let’s appreciate SA. 🙏🏾❤️🇿🇦

I miss South Africa too. When the mood hits I suggest visiting one of the many Nando’s in our city. Have you visited any of them? Giant for organic? Ummm. No. Whole Foods and maybe Trader Joe’s is as good as it gets. None compare to Food Lovers and other SA spots. Those who wonder about your desire for outstanding foods have never been to South Africa. It’s the only place where I find consistently amazing healthy foods.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

I miss SA a lot. Yes I tried Whole foods check my other video but it is expensive. I will check Trader Joe. 🙏🏾❤️

@bcs2k1

4 ай бұрын

@@VelileLifestyleDecorTV Although not a grocery store, have you tried one of our local Nando's (for a taste of home)?

you did it again sis Vee!! Good thing I had to watch it today on a chilled Sunday down here Pmb..really enjoy it ...i like this style and your editing is on another level ... Thank you guys for sharing your jounery with us, we appropriate!

Ha! Sis Velile your kettle change colours,levels mchana levels 😀 you are overseas now

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

We have those in South Africa too. 😂😂🙏🏾❤️

l lough when Velile says lm not eating that, yeah yhol we are good in SA lol😂😂😂

I think you shouldn’t stop converting, it’s good to know the value you’re getting for your money vs what you get back home. It’s like shopping at Woolworths but more 😭😭😭

Sisi Velile, you are doing a great job, even though you are not enjoying there you spend wisely that place is challenging you buy I m learning also🙏❤

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

I am happy to share experiences so that even the young South Africans who want to live abroad can have an idea of how life is like here. 🙏🏾❤️

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While you are busy shopping , I am also converting dollar into Rands. Food is very expensive that side 🙆‍♂

@benbo7042

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

Very expensive. 🙏🏾❤️

Thank you so much ma for taking us to the US with you. Now I can conclude that South Africans we are living a soft life, we just don't realise it. I mean 1 pepper for $1.99 that's equivalent to R35.82 😭😭

@rorirory121

4 ай бұрын

Thats misleading. Equivalents mean nothing when you spend in the same country where you earned your money. Americans earn $s so they spend in $s. It would mean something if they came to SA to buy groceries and go back, then youll have to factor in flight costs.

@ronaldabuezubane7397

4 ай бұрын

​@@rorirory121True, but those who relocate to South Africa at retirement stage, have it really nice in South Africa, because they get their social security payouts in dollars but spent them in rands.

@benbo7042

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

It’s expensive in many way also because of the value of our rand too. We need to be independent of the trade exchange and have a stronger currency. USA is enjoying spending less in other countries while we spend more. 🙏🏾❤️

@rorirory121

4 ай бұрын

@@VelileLifestyleDecorTV we are not going to change currencies to feed your spending habits

Hi Sis Velile yes it’s very cold. I’m in New Jersey and we had a snow yesterday. Please let me know more about business opportunities in SA . I will be going home in April for three months .

Giant grocery store is a good store yes, Aldi's is also an affordable grocery store. The farmers market is a little more expensive. African Int. Market 4.9(9) this should be about 30 minutes away from you...may help. Grocery store · Gaithersburg, MD Open ⋅ Closes 9 PM I see you live close to 7th Street you are about 20 mins away from me. DC is so expensive Maryland is better to shop.

find farmers market on weekends and shop cheap organic food

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

That’s what I intend to do. Thank you. 🙏🏾❤️

I was excited when I saw the dollar store . We couldn't eat things we bought there. They were tasteless. I understand you complaining non stop 😂 .

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t dare buy food from the dollar tree. 😂😂😂. It’s nasty.

Hello sisters hop all is well

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

All is well thank and hope you are well too. 🙏🏾❤️

USA is cleaner than SA

People shouldnt listen to this moaning and whinging about a host country. Its bad when visitors have nothing good or very little to say about the host. USA is a good country and will serve you well if you do your homework. It is a wild dog eats wild dog country where you will not survive if you have no strategy. You cant devise a strategy if you dont do your homework, you cant do your homework without information. You dont just jump into the USA, you have to be well informed (do your due diligence), mentally, emotionally, physically and financially ready to venture into the dog world. Plus, your skills better be relevant and you better be prepared to roll up your sleeves, get involved and get your hands dirty to earn that $. Otherwise you will spend your R-to-$, raid credit cards, refinance your home in SA to finance your opulent lifestyle in the USA, and come back resentful and broken hearted to face all that debt. It has happened to many who were in a much better position than Velile. Im talking about people whose accommodation and furniture were taken care of by the employer but they still accumulated debt, transferring money from SA to the USA and Europe. It happens all the time. You dont leave behind South Africa and expect to find it in the USA. This is what happens when people dont do their homework and dont plan. You make wrong choices and spend money buying what you have. Had she loaded her household goods for a 2beds flat in a container she would have saved a lot of money. They chose one of thee most expensive districts in the USA, Washington DC. Thats the capital and this is USA, its not for poor people or 'rich' foreigners carrying weak currencies. Leave DC to foreign heads of states, their delegations, leaders of Fortune 500 companies and their entourage visiting to lobby US politicians.

@ronaldabuezubane7397

4 ай бұрын

Her husband got a professorship in the area. Are professors included in the list of your eligible residents?

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

It’s called sharing of information and enlightening others of what life is like in other countries. Coming back to your insight about host countries, strategy and all, this is the second time I live in USA. I lived here before and my daughter is born American. This country is no longer the same as it used to be period. Strategy or not, the quality of life is no longer the same. A lot of African Americans are suffering in this country and are moving out for better quality of life somewhere else. Whether you are a corporate executive or a cleaner, quality of life comes with the ability to live inexpensive, save your money and enjoy the rest of the world. I have seen people here walking like robots working hard and have no time to enjoy life. My perspective is to acknowledge that not every South African comes to US as an executive or at my level. We have our kids coming here as nanny’s, working in entertainment parks etc, they need to know that life is not what it looks like on tv in reality. We don’t want our children caught in depression because we never told them. Yes there is a good side of this country and that will be shared too. 🙏🏾❤️

@rorirory121

4 ай бұрын

@@VelileLifestyleDecorTV 'at my level...', this means you shoudnt be in DC you should be in a cheaper city and theres plenty of those. DC is for high earners and rich people not people who think they are rich. 'African Americans...' tell me about other Americans, African Americans are a waste of time, not worth commenting on them except to say they will not survive where they are moving to because of their attitudes, laziness and lack of skills. As a coutersy to the host nation you should have started with the good side which far outweighs the bad for those who are able and willing to study situations, do their homework and plan properly and stick to the plan. Your 'child was born there...2nd time in the US...' , this means you didnt learn anything the first time otherwise you wouldnt have needed to start all over again buying furniture and household goods you should have brought from or bought in SA and ship on 1/2 container all for less than what you paid buying in the US. YES it can be done you only need to know that. 'your children go there to work as nannies'...LOL the same jobs they are too lazy to do in SA. They go there to work as nannies while Chinese go there to work in the Tech and Indians in the pharmaceutical industries and earn big. 'people walking like zombies....' are you sure those arent drug addicts you were seeing?. And in KZN you missed the nyaope addicts, how convenient. At least those people are working you said that, that should trigger something in you about high rate of unemploynent in SA. 'the country is not the same....' is South Africa the same in 2024 as it was in 2014 and 2004? Did you have loadshedding in 2004, how much did the litre of petrol cost in 2014, how much does it cost in 2024? How many electricity units did you get for R100 in 2004 and 2014, and in 2024???. How much groceries did you get in 2004 and 2014 for R500, how much do you get now? How common was drug addiction in 2004 and 2014, how common is it in 2024? If South Africa has changed for the worse in the past 10 and 20years why do you expect other countries to remain frozen in time? You've been complaining about everything from food to rent to prices to service to missing rural areas, etc, why dont you end the misery and go back to KZN? Isnt that what we South Africans tell ungrateful foreigners when they moan and groan about SA? To go back where they came from? Well, its time you get told the same, to leave USA if you cant take the heat. At least in the USA and cities in SA you have access to clean, running water. A courteous person does NOT trash other people's food as if they eat rubbish and that you can do better when you are not. What happened to 'if you have nothing good to say dont say anything'? Im going to add: especially about food. You are indeed from KZN it shows in your lack of basic courtesy.

@rorirory121

4 ай бұрын

@@VelileLifestyleDecorTV your information is not balanced and you are yet to admit contributing to your own situation by assuming that the USA of 2024 is the same as that of 10 and 20years ago. No one knows USA, not even Americans, the country is too big and diverse to know, i laugh when people assume they do.

Organic food is overrated. This is not 100% naturally grown food, its genetically modified food that uses less modifications, like below a certain %. Example: cold pressed olive oil, its not 100% cold pressed, its just pressed at a lower temperature, i think below 30 degrees is considered cold pressed. The lower the temperature the better but manufacturers dont release that information. Its all in the taste and colour, the lighter the colour the better. Id rather use a good normal cooking oil than a hot pressed expensive olive oil. Hot pressed is dark in colour even if its labelled cold pressed. Genetically modified food tastes lekka and theres nothing wrong with it if it is strictly controlled like it is the case in SA. We have just under 8billion mouths to feed on the planet, we need genetically modified food otherwise millions of people are going to die of starvation. Im not dying of starvation, im going to eat genetically modified food. Health food tastes like paper. Unless you grow your own food and use no pesticides, no fertilisers, or anything to help the plant or livestock or soil, you are not buying or eating organic food. What you buy from supermarkets is tired 'organic' food, its been standing there for days with its organic elements negatively affected by artificial, opulent lights. Yes, lights have a negative effect on food like fruit, veg, milk, eggs, meat incl processed meat and ladies...lights have negative effect on make up and skincare products. Hot lights kill active and other ingredients. LED is better. Issues with genetically modified food are exaggerated by lobbyists for organic food producers, its all noise and politics just like climate change which is happening but not at the exaggerated rate the EU sponsored environmentalists claim. NASA can prove that this is an exaggeration. Genetically modified food saves lives.

@ronaldabuezubane7397

4 ай бұрын

You are such an expert in everything. You shouldn't be wasting your time making numerous comments on KZread. You should instead be sitting on numerous advisory boards!😅😅

@ronaldabuezubane7397

4 ай бұрын

Are you the friend from Cape Town, that I invited to visit KZN? Here we are again, you and I are destined souls!😂😂😂

@rorirory121

4 ай бұрын

​@@ronaldabuezubane7397advisory boards and other boards are politically connected airheaded incompetents thats why Eskom and Transnet have collapsed in spite of having (educated) board members. KZread is best for raising awareness. Why dont i activate my own channel? I considered that in 2021 but decided against. It will be too time consuming, i had mentally committed myself to working on my purpose on the planet and wanted/needed no distractions.

@ronaldabuezubane7397

4 ай бұрын

Granted, some (not all) of your comments are valid. I was also surprised to hear her talk about some litter on the streets, which is nothing compared to the problem we have in SA.

@VelileLifestyleDecorTV

4 ай бұрын

You are very right. 🙏🏾❤️