UKmigrant:
This move I am making was highly discouraged by colleagues and bosses. They feel I have no reason to abandon my job and leave the country since I am due for a promotion by early next year. Unfortunately, being the stubborn person that I am who only goes with his guts, my mind was long made up even before I joined the organisation, just that at a point, I actually fell in love with my job and felt like ''let me put my travelling plans on hold''. Moreso I only take advise from people who have done something I am trying to do, not people who were too afraid to, but want to discourage you, making sense of their situation. The funny thing is the only people discouraging me are the people who have never done this, they keep telling me of people they know who did it and had to come back to start all over again. Fortunately, I know too many people who have successfully made the move i am about to make, even later than I am doing right now and the only regret they had was not moving earlier when they had the chance to.

The events of the past one to two years however re-awakened my desire to leave. The economic situation of the country started making me feel hopeless and helpless. I started feeling depressed at work. I began to feel frustrated improvising everyday that I ran out of ways to improvise. I got tired of sucking up to draconian bosses whose aim is to enslave me. I got tired of getting insulted by bosss in the presence of clients and subbordinates (Everyone around me thinks this is normal and not a big deal). I got tired of bosses thinking its ok to keep me working beyond what is required of me into the late night everyday of the week without a corresponding pay or any overtime payment. I thought about my situation and circumstances carefully and felt, If I don't leave now when I have the chance to, I am going to be trapped for a long time and have regrets later in life.

I know moving to a new country can be really stressful with myriads of unforseen challenges, also one is going to start from the scratch, but this is a chance I am willing to take for the sake of my my sanity, my quality of life, and my family.

justwise:
@All


This is not job/visa inquiry thread, if you are interested in Tier 2 visa then start your own thread and mention the op, don't derail this one by asking about how he got his visa or job

EggPlant:
Justwise, you dey vex o. I thought comments getting deleted should be because of derailing the thread or breaking some other rules. My post was very relevant to the thread and you deleted it. Easy o!

UKmigrant:
A little about my last UK trip a few months ago. It was my first time in the UK. I needed to go sort out my runs. I was to stay for a total of 6 weeks. To save cost of accommodation, I contacted my cousin in France who has a friend in the city I wanted to stay in the UK and he linked us up. We started chatting several weeks prior to my trip and I even called him a few times. He said there's no issue at all accommodating me. He even promised to pick me up at the airport. Told me how he is really close to my cousin and I have nothing to worry about.

He even asked me to send my flight itinerary which I did. We finally spoke before i departed Nigeria and he said he'd be waiting for me at the airport as I land.

When we landed, I started trying his numbers all to no avail! Called him on whatsapp but he didn't pick up. Sent him several messages on whatsapp and skype, they were delivering but he wasn't reading them. Later the messages also stopped delivering. I decided to chill a little for him thinking he probably had some delays getting to the airport, I no no say I don jonze!

After 4 hours I was still at the airport with no calls from him or reply to any of my messages, I called my cousin in France who also tried to contact him but also couldn't. I then knew that I was on my own. I booked airbnb and took a black cab to the place.

He never called me back throughout my stay in the UK. I tried to message him once, it was delivered but he didn't reply, even up till now. I wonder what was going on in his mind for setting me up to be stranded like that. Thank Jah I was fully prepped for my trip financially and all, so, I just had to spend the money I was trying to manage.

On speaking with some Londoners about it, I learnt that it is a common behavior amongst Nigerians in London. I say na waa o! Brothers behaving like savages to their fellow countrymen. Unless they see clearly that they have something to benefit from you, they avoid you like a plague. The rest na story for another day sha.

Pidgin2:
Good luck bro, soon na weather and tax go be your major concern, everywhere has it's own peculiar issues., takia

UKmigrant:
Thanks, I have no problem with paying taxes and I believe UK weather is far better than some countries' like Canada and many Scandinavian countries and yet Nigerians are living happily there.

UKmigrant:
Where is your location sis, if your nice and close by, who knows maybe I'll let them go, lol!