Life in a small town: 'I have never been happier with less'

By Bonny Fourie | Published Feb 11, 2021

Carola Koblitz, a freelance writer, gave up her Cape Town city life in 2018 after promising herself – and her former employers – that she would move to the country to work remotely by the time she turned 60. When this milestone arrived she sold her city 14 th floor 72m² apartment and bought a new home in Napier, a village at the foot of the Soetmuisberg, between Caledon and Bredasdorp, in the Overberg region.