Rule 19 of 20 of no no’s when visiting a Restaurant: Don’t boast about the value of your property. Since rising house prices are (a) the only thing keeping most middle-aged homeowners from the bread line, and (b) preventing those same homeowners’ children from finding anywhere to live, the topic is unavoidable. But no one likes to hear anyone swank about the lottery-style bonanza they’ve just enjoyed from, say, the sale of their four-bed terraced house in Umhlanga – especially not if, hypothetically, the listener sold their identical residence in 1993 for a measly R400,000. But who’d have been daft enough to do that, hey?
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