Lagos: The World's 5th Worst Place to Live In

 Lagos 4 lyf, Lagos rock  ,  don't know wot they're talking about, may not be the best place in the world, but 5th worst place to live, hell no

Nigerians r da best people on earth

Na d hustle n bussle of Lagos.

Yeah!  Posh sides surrounded by refuse dumpsters and riddled with fantastic transportation networks to arrive at these posh destinations.

Hello Friends,

I may look be an outsider here, because i am brazilian, and not nigerian. I am an Anthropologist and found this survey on "the best and worst cities to live in" to be extremely ethnocentrical. I don't think that outsiders can judge the quality of a city based on numbers that "they" (the europeans and north americans) think are important.

I would like to make my doctoral work by living a year or so in lagos and by making friends, hanging out, doing stuff try on my phd work show what people really feel about lagos. It not a survey, its not about numbers.

I live in Rio de Janeiro, one of the most violent cities in the world and yet full of tourists the whole year. We are living a war here, between drugdealers and the corrupt police and everyone thinks rio is a paradise.

It is all year long full of "gringos" - it´s how we call americans and europeans in portuguese (and also in spanish). Trying to dance samba, spending money on hookers, etc.

I´d like to publish something trying to contest this metod of survey: i don't plan on saying if Lagos is good or bad, but the complaints about "quality of living" MUST be made by people who live in Lagos.

Thank you friends, and sorry for the intromission

ps: if anyone can reply me, or is disposed to guide me and help me finding lodging in lagos and making friends, i´d be more than happy.

Of all the cities that I have visited Lagos is indeed the worst and it wins that title by a landslide.

No water
No electricity.
Pot holed roads
Massive rubbish dumps
Cripples running in and out of traffic
Traffic jams from hell
Everyone and their Dad trying to flog you ‘pure’ water, water which is probably not clean.
Everyone and their Dad trying flog you every piece of junk known to man while you are stuck in traffic
Policemen openly accepting bribes
The rich carrying on like they don't see the squalor and filth that is around them when they leave their mansions.
So-called private schools in every nook and cranny
Ignorant Area boys
Can’t use generator for too long for fear of attracting armed robbers

Unfortunately I can go on for ever.

It is indeed the worst city in the world and I have been around! Most notably I have been to a couple of Favelas’ in Brazil and they had nothing on the slums of Lagos. Yes they were in a pretty bad state but even there people had the common decency to put rubbish in a proper refuse collection and not throw it out onto the street for someone else to clean as long as it wasn’t in their house.

I totally agree with you. There is indeed "no other country like Nigeria" on the surface of this earth.

I disagree. These pictures show scenes that are common in Lagos. Lagos is a city where unfortunately the bad disgraceful sights such as these outnumber the good. I understand your patriotic stance but I have never been one to bury my head in  the sand and ignore such  atrocities because I feel that by doing so I am letting the government literally get away with murder.

The government is responsible for fixing up the roads, providing proper sanitation and trash disposal facilities, proper public transport and decent structure for the wellbeing of all Lagosians/ Nigerians alike but they aren't and until they do I will continue to expose their a$$es to the world. You guys can sit up here deluding yourselves about how Lagos is one of the best cities in the world but I happen to think that Nigerians deserve better and so I will continue to expose until the government fix up and get their act together.

let it be the poorest in the world, I cannot but secure better job and stay cooly in LAGOS. Na them sabi.

Check this out,  i'm in a city in south africa called Port Elizabeth,  run a seach on the internet d only pics u find are d sandy beaches and shopping malls,  but,  Not all that Glitter is Gold,  underneath all of that u hav d other part of city, d slump, d armed robbers, port holes, no road, no water ,  One thing The know how 2 do is PR,  they know how 2 sell d city to d tourists ,  like Elosela says unless we learn 2 do that,  Lagos will continue 2 b d worst place 2 live in,

the western apologists have kep quiet now why don't you reply john doe
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lagos might be a dangerous place to live with all the refuse,crime e.t.c i don't dispute that but to say its in the top ten or 5 or whatever is doing a great injustice and erroneous reporting on the part of bbc,personally,im not suprised because its not their first,check their documentary about schools in lagos and how biased they were,the real reson they are pushing the western agenda to put us down constatntly is because of our resources,they know they don't need another saudi arabia,iran e.t.c a large country who have unlimited resources/money will be dangerous to world politics, imagine the largest and most populated african country,the richest and also with a lot of educated and influential people now imagine them attracting foreign exchange in form of tourism,then having a proper government, that wil be a nightmare because in no time we will be aiming for the security councill in un and nuclear programme e.t.c
for the western apologists,don't be blind to propaganda and see the bigger picture,if you are not educated politically go google some sh*t and learn something new, there are slums everywhere in the world in calcutta the common stream they drink from in a part of the city is also used to bath deceased peope and its dirtier than lagos so please get your facts right!!