Hi,

Everyone please, I need useful info on life in calabar as i am considering relocating there.

Cost of living, business and job opportunities, accommodation, lifestyle, and anything useful.

Thanks guys!

calabar is a good place to live.things are pretty ok n fine.u ve the best of life especially now that TINAPA is opened.cost of living is moderate.but u didt tell us why u r relocating.is it that u r married or being redepolyed by ur company? either way,life in calabar is very interesting.

Calabar? Do u av a wife? take her. A fiancee? Marry her. then take her along

okay,look out for calabar girls.i mean the real efik ones.i'm ibo but my husband is from there.i f u are not careful.you'll be in trouble.

I was born and brought up in Calabar and still have my parents there. I spent all my holidays (xmas, etc,) there and i can vividly say it's a fun filled place to be. Cost of living is moderate, environment is clean (the cities) and lots of relaxation spots. I can be your host if you visit b/w 20th Dec. and 4th Jan. 08.

Calabar is a beautiful Town and is relatively affordable. For a comfortable house that contains a Bedroom, Parlour, Kitchen, Bathroom you should be paying between One Hundred and Fifty Thousand to One Hundred and Eighty Thousand. Make sure you insist (to your agent) on living in Calabar Municipality (State Housing, Ibom Layout, Mekenge Layout). You'll be able to survive quite comfortably.

Of course you wont be bothered by traffic and dirt. You'll be breathing fresh air.

Starting a business in Calabar depends on you (Patience, Perseverance) and the type of Business. It might be slow at first but target the students (Unical students) and be good to them, they'll always come back.
Job opportunities were rare until recently (the tourism boom). You can get jobs at the Tinapa Resort, Tourism Beareau, Epz, Banks. Its still difficult thought to make it 'big time'.

The people are really friendly and funny once you get to know them.

Criminal activities exist as in everywhere else, but its nothing to be worried about.
The fire service is operational (Believe me, i've used them)
These are the Emergency Response Nos
- 08077022450, 08022883008. They'll connect you to the police and Fireservice.

If there's anything i think about i'll let you know.

All in all, Calabar is fun.

People keep talking about calabar women, it is just as being in PH or Lagos Abeg,there is a lot of investments to explore in Calabar if you have the Capital ranging from Fishing, Fast food, Crushed rock, and many more to mention.It is a place that your life can have a meaning not like PH that you will be hold up in Eleme junction for 5 hrs everyday in traffic.

I have so much i can tell you about life in calabar that no one else will be courageous enough to tell you. You can contact me through my email if you are interested in knowing.
I know of places and people that will be will help you achieve your dreams and new business plan. One of such person is a young enterprenuer that is into professional photography for big events and modelling. You can understudy him and his business first before you venture int the biz. Check out XPOSURE at Atekong junction, marian road calabar. Dont meet him, study him and his biz style from a distance and u will get into the flow faster.


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i lived most of all my life in calabar from 1986 till 2005, till i moved away to serve in lagos. Calabar is great, i mean i cant live there again tho since ive gotten used to the bustle of lagos, but its fun to go and chill there and stuff, my parents still live there and there are still fun hangouts- Mirage, NAF club and i hear some new places are popping up, beware of efik chopping babes tho, lol, u dont need a lot of money to have fun in calabar tho i hear thats changing slowly, i should be there by the 23rd- if u havent bought ur air ticket to get there before christmas- then forget it- cuz airlines are booked, yup! that time of the year

Calabar is a fun-all-the-way kind of place cos i ve lived ther all my life but you really have to be care ful of naysayers cos the'll get you discouraged about living there.And one more thing the opportunities are enoronus so you can Come And Live And Be At Rest in CALABAR

Calabar is a fun-all-the-way kind of place cos i ve lived ther all my life but you really have to be care ful of naysayers cos the'll get you discouraged about living there.And one more thing the opportunities are enoronus so you can Come And Live And Be At Rest in CALABAR

hi guys, thanks for the prompt response. the thing is i want to relocate there to start up a professional photography outfit there. i just need to know if it will be financially rewarding. ive only been to cala bar once five months ago and i was blown away

Hi colours.

You want to start a professional photography outfit? You have serious competetion in Cybermul. Like i said though, target the students first and foremost and they'll give you a heads start. If you can get office space somewhere close University of Calabar gates or Marian. then you're good to go. If your production is good, then of course it will be financially rewarding especially this time of the year (Christmas), the carnival, mountain race, artist performing every night.
They're sharks out there but of course you still got loads of chances.
Good luck girl!!!

Na wa O!!! All these props for Calabar, Its too much oh. Want to believe you guys aren't exagerating. I feel like fying there this moment. Wish i could spend my xmas there but unfortunately know nobody there and not quite bouyant at d moment to lodge.

Well, ll sure put it on my top list of places to visit soon. Have fun relocator.

Wow!I'm sure you will av no regret about your relocation because :Calabar is a place to be

amsky:

okay,look out for calabar girls.i mean the real efik ones.i'm ibo but my husband is from there.i f u are not careful.you'll be in trouble.

Wots that, wot is wrong with efik gals, I am not efik but take exception to the generalization of negative stuff about efik gals, wots the trouble about with efik gals ehn?

lami4life:

Calabar? Do u av a wife? take her. A fiancee? Marry her. then take her along

Poor you, the poster is female, did u even read well at all, u were just jumping to say somting irrelevant. Mind you, Calabar women are the most caring and respectful women, know how to take care of their men, so other women should inprove on their stuff instead of being scared of them.

Calabar is really a good place to live in. I've stayed there since i was born, but because i served in Lagos i had to stay back and job hunt. Right now i long to work there because its a quite place,clean,peaceful and what have you? Its a good idea.

Calabar has a good scenery and was told the place is really clean.
Calabar comes with a lot of freebies yes i mean freebies

Their Ladies are out of this world:
Quite domestic,
Tireless emmmm

Thank God for a post like this one.
I am thinking of spending my leave in Calabar.
Does anybody have the address and approximate costof a good hotel in Calabar?
I will be waiting for your recommendations.
Thank you

Am a full blown Calabar man.  The town is fun. Whomsoever comes here is on a journey to catch fun of a lifetime. I live in Channel View Hotels (courtesy,my employers) and my experience here is that the town is the best place to invest money especially in tourism support and related areas.  Photography is very rewarding.Yes, a former top PDP man owns Cybermul (the only top photograpy shop) and I tell you, the market is only evolving.There is plenty room for competition.   Eateries and fast-food joints are spinging up everywhere.  At the last count,Mac Bite and Fiesta Bar just opened shop. Many more are on the way.  There's boom for business.  Hotels are fully booked into 2008. Same for air travel. If you need any of these, you need to contact persons on the ground to assist you get over them.

The carnival is slated for 26th and 27th of December! Two full days of non-stop fun! Xmas shows have been on, since the beginning of the month.  There is Miss Calabar Carnival Peagant to be held in Studio 2 at Nollywood, Tinapa on the 22nd.  Reservations are about to be sold out.  Each table for ten guests goes for N25,000; minimum retail rate. The street lights are being ferrociously rehabilitated, to be linked to the Tinapa power plant and will sure be running before the next few days.  It means, with or without NEPA (or PHCN?), the lights would remain on.  WE are having our fun here.  You are welcome to join us experience life in Calabar. No fears at all!!!!!!!

I Dey Vex,
Hotels are of classes.  The most expensive presently (with the best facilities) is the Metropolitan, a 4-star hotel in all respects. A room (single) goes for 20k/night.  That is the cheapest.  ChannelView comes second, with a single room at 14k/night, double 24k.  Am afraid,you may not get any room in either of the 2 until early next year.  They are fully booked!

There are others like Pyramid Hotel with lower rates.  We have Noble Place,Le Chateau, etc with rates as low as 6k/night,single and progressing in that order. You may contact me if you need further assistance and info.  We are here to share whatever we can. Cheers! mel_celestine@hotmail.com

any hotel with 'ocean view'?

Baba, yes!
Marina Resort is by the Calabar ocean bank and has accomodation but is highly sought after.

I have been hearing so many good things about Calabar and i really want go there when i come to Nigeria. When i tell Nigerians in America that i have never been there before, they always look at me with a very funny face because I am from Akwa Ibom State which is like 30 minute or 1 hour drive to Calabar

Cali town is cool but hope u'r on wheels. Or if u really dont mind jumping bikes, no probs. caveat: it rains silly here o.

I've heard a lot of great things about Calabar, particularly its orderliness
and cleanliness. Has anyone got any pictures of the town which reflect this?

Same here, I've heard so much about Calabar recently. I guess it'd b fine. At least with Tinapa (www.tinapa.com), the place is bound to experience tremendous growth and development in the coming years.

i believe calabar is nice according to all has been written here i was there last in 1996 coss am an exmalabite but i have been going to calabar since i was a kid in pry school in lagos when my dad was the branch manager of federal mortgage bank now federal mortgage finace ( if its still existing) i was a malabite for 5 yrs and i enjyed my self to d fulllest .3 thunderous gbosa for all great malabites and malabresses out there

i can never stop talking about calabar. i've read all you guys wrote, but nobody talked about hte following:
excellent weather(except the rains )
the food. . . . . yummie
low crime rate
simple lifestyle of the efiks
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet babes
smooth traffick
xmas carnival . . . . (hold ya condoms )

but hey, the historic monuments. . . . the millenium park, the old residency/cala ar museum (from where nigeria was ruled in the early I900s), eleven/eleven (signifying the end of the Ist world war on the IIth of Nov, I9I8. etc

the trees lining the main highway int the city, the city is great. I live in Cardiff, but i'll still say Calabar is da bomb

Baba, yes!
Marina Resort is by the Calabar ocean bank and has accomodation but is highly sought after.

any website? contact details? looking forward.

epoma i stay in ph how about u