Nigerians In The UK Are So Stingy

Nigerians in UK are stingy abi? go to UK and work and send yourself money, i don't no why some people in Nigeria feel that in UK (overseas )there is gold/money on the street to pick, why don't the person that made this statement go and  work hard and stop thinking on depending on other or constituting a leach to others, this nor be question i suppose answer self,  i am out

It's quite preposterous to say Nigerians in the UK are tight handed, atleast from my personal perspective. When I arrived here, I wanted to do everything, I was eager to start sending money home, sort my studies, etc, etc. But my bro and sis, it wasn't long before reality kicked in.

To start with, my College kept demanding their money on a regular basis, my rent was killing me, my landlord expected his money as at when due and then my friends were rightly calling and expecting things too, yet here is a guy who hasn't been able to sort himself.

Although I understand the expectations of folks in Nigeria, I probably would act like them but if you don't live out here you wouldn't understand the frustration of guys here.  It got to a point I stopped calling and accepting calls from Nigeria but I later made a move call my friends explain my situation to them. Few of them co-operated while others didn't but then I have satisfy my conscience!

Everything you do here is taxed, your house rent is astronomical, phone bills, television licence, Sky/Virgin, cable phone not to mention energy bills like gas and electricity! All these items listed are necessities not luxury. It's either you pay for these service as at when due or you go without! If you drive you MUST have you car taxed, insured and MOTd. if you try to evade any of these, you get yourself in trouble bec either you like it or not the law will surely caught up with you.

I think what Nigerians home and abroad need is understanding. Those guys practising dubiously businesses in the west have painted a wrong picture to those back in Nigeria but those working and sweating should start explaining to those back home what their real situations is instead of pretending to be rich. 

Standard of living UK might be higher than Nigeria's or indeed Africa but the cost of living is so HIGH! This is what folks back home should plz put into consideration.

Funny thread

lol, i knew some1 somewer somday wuld put up dis thread,

Really I don't think Nigerians in UK are stingy, i will share my experience, I grew up all my life in the UK, but went to secondary school for 2 yrs and obviosuly makes friends.
I came back to the UK after my secondary school, and i do speak to may be 3 close friends in nigeria, one of them decide to ring me out of the blue saying oh she has a problem that after school shedidnt get into university and she started this buying and selling business, but she needs some fund for me to help her and she will pay be back, and she demand for £2000 and I was like damn girl dats a lot to cough out.

But me being so naive, i said i will borrow her £1000 from my savings. and she said she will return it in 7 months time. since 2004 that i borrowed this girl my money i tried calling her one what she said was, oh is it because of £1000 thats why im ringing her, that afterall i didnt give her all she ask for, that she will give me back when she have it. since then its been 5yrs now, i havnt spoken to this girl and she even change her number.
now tell how i can give people money.

I went oh holiday in april to nigeria, cousins i havent seen before started calling my parent to speak to me demanding Gucci bag, jimmi choo, balenciaga, even me i don't have a jimmi choo not to talk of balenciaga.

i think naija folks in nigeria need to use common sense and even in nigeria im sure not all of them are generous. UK is really expensive, bills here and there to pay for, working hard. even white people complain, not to now talk of a nigerian who is here to work.  is not about being a slave, its all about no one is prepared to give money just to anyone else, cos the more you give, the more they ask.

Imagine giving someone 40k just literrally 2 months ago and all of a sudden your fone rings again and the story this time is, "i just had a baby and i don't have money for the ceremony".

I for one couldn't care less if labelled stingy

@busybody
ao u dey?

lets say the truth O

9jas for UK (particularly) are toooooo stingy. For some of dem, e go just be like say d minite wey dey board that plane, dem carry their 9ja GOD-given head exchange with another, 

Even when U sef come travel, dem see U - na forming dem go dey form for U (wey una both start together)

 Faakay and all the others posting in this thread, aren’t we not all hypocrites. Which one of you can honestly say that when you were in Nigeria you did not exhibit those characteristics you are prescribing to our brothers? That is making unrealistic demands of our parents or relatives abroad. Now that the shoe is on the other foot we now see fit to abuse our Nigerian brothers.

We should be blaming our relatives and parents who first entered these shores. They should have been honest from the start about how hard it is to work for a living in England/America rather than giving our people unrealistic expectations and fooling our people’s heads with lies about the grandeur of being abroad.

The mother of a friend of mine often travelled home with lots on money. She does not work; her children give her the money to travel. One time she went with £20k for six weeks holidays. She ran out of money within three weeks. The funny thing was that as soon as she ran out of money, and none was forthcoming after she rang her children in England, she jumped on a plane and hightailed back to her wonderful England.

Then when back in England, the phone calls from Nigeria followed with every Tom, Johnny and Harry begging her for money and who can fault them.


Incidentally, it appears a common perception among people in African, Asia, South America, and Caribbean, if they have relatives in England and America, that the English ones are stingier by comparison to American ones.

They are protecting their interest,  before una go begin demand dem to go looth banks for una 

What is your definition of a 'better life'??
A better life for me is a life of comfort with basic amenities of life, electricity, water, health care, good transport systems etc
A life where I have the ability to meet most of my needs and still have some to save.( it's rare to have emergencies, I can plan)
A life where I don't have to derive an heart attack from the state of the nation and the greed of it's leaders. (Different negative stories everyday)
A life where my hardwork would lead to success and not via connection 'man know man'
A life where I don't have to sleep with one eye wide awake.
A life where i dont have to worry about accidental discharge from the police
A life where I don't have to spend countless hours of my time in traffic with fear of being attacked my hoodlums and robbers.
  I could go on and on


I would rather live on the little I have here with peace of mind.

Money is not everything.

funny!

I live in the US and the only reason why an american would be considered less stingy then someone living in the UK is because the price of living is higher in the UK

Some guys back home are not considerate to be fair, i remember my first 2 months in the UK i started receiving funny phone calls from guys that are not even close to me to send them some pounds, there was this day i was so annoyed,went to work during winter, i worked for good 10hrs and on getting home,i got a call from one of my so-called friend in Nigeria, he asked me to get him the new Arsenal jesrsey even ordering me to customise it for him, i didnt utter any word, what i did was to check the price on Arsenal's website, the jersey alone was £40,printing of names,numbers and badge to cost £15, making £55 right?imagine u that work in the cold for 10 fcking hrs  and your pay is just £6/hr, that means u only get £60 for 10hrs of which tax and NI contributions will be deducted, and someone asked you to use £55 from the money to get Arsenal jersey? Common poster if your jand dawgs refuse to call you then free them abeg, no be by force jare, shior

LOL!

One thing i dont understand though is,
How did they get hold of your numbers to call??? <except you are roaming>

Im sure it was your pride and 'i don arrive' mentality 
That facilitated you guys, dashing out your numbers <some of you>

'im in the Uk, yeah. .this is my number +44774311419!'

So when people begin to ask for stuff, you now start to act the fool
YES! yáll are stingy! 

So either they arent really your friends
or you are really stingy 

This getting silly - there various levels and closeness of friendship,  Some of the callers are family and relatives, so this is not about just friends. Even if the person is or was your best and close friend before you left Nigeria, it does not mean you have to buy him/her a laptop just because the person is your friend.

A lot of people have commented on the fact that if you call someone and try to carry on your friendship e.g, it does not take so long for that person to ask you for something just because you are in the UK. I'm sure that was probably not the basis of your friendship before. Phone calls in itself can be expensive if one knows too many people and they want to jist for a long time. Anyway, people have to move on because the friendship has probably changed into acquaintance because of distance and new experiences.