Need a flatmate? Need accommodation?Friends?
Anyone that has lived in London will be able to tell you about the very useful one-stop site www.gumtree.com. The good news yet again, is that they have seen the gap and expanded to SA – gumtree has started a Joburg, Cape Town and very recently http://durban.gumtree.co.za/….
.. The gumtree is an extremely utile tool in making a good life for yourself – when I lived in London I used it to find accommodation, work, friends (no – just joking – but some people do use it for that!) travel deals, flatmates etc.
There is no central point in Joburg that I am aware of where one can find generic info on living in the city and we at Represent wish them luck with their venture! It would be great if it was an SA company running it – but the global network, experience and connections that they bring through are well worth the import... Come on guys let’s use it.
A bit of history:
Established in March 2000, www.gumtree.com is the UK’s most popular recruitment and community web site.
The site has become a vital survival tool for all those who are either new to a city, or find big city living complicated.
Gumtree.com is now one of the UK’s busiest websites and receives more internet traffic than any UK recruitment web site according to Amazon.com’s research wing, Alexa.com. In January 2005 alone the site received 1.1m unique visits, and so far the site has received 1.9m postings, well in excess of 4,000 postings daily.
The site was awarded second place in the Daily Telegraph Website of the Year award 2004.
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