segcy.moor:

Me
Loser? Over what ...anyway I won't blame you because you don't know who you addressing

manny4life:

It's easy to state they earn $10/hr but you did not include taxes (SS, State, Federal, and Medicare), the cost of living vs Nigeria are way different. Nigeria has her own problems and while Nigerian wage is low (peanut), Nigeria does have it good to a certain degree. Please don't envy $10/hr, it's NOTHING.

Idi Amin: I guess Op is not in the US. House rent in Los Angeles is $1200 per month as against maybe 300k per year in Naija. America is good if you have a dependable wife which 99% of Nigerians here don't have. Also one can have two jobs anyway unlike in Naija where one works for 8hours and waste the other 16hrs drinking beer. One can as well develop himself educationally because of school financial aids by govt. Generally, America is good if you plan your stay very well.

Baybe: How can you compare Nigeria with USA?

After paying taxes, you'd be left with nothing.

eluquenson:

Pls do your statistics well, ask of the cost of a 2bed flat in surulere & give us a feedback, its like you are staying in a face me I slap you, where you pay 10,000naira a month for room & parlour, that means you live in a slum like I said, cos in major lagos city you get a 2bed-flat for 350k per annum so do your mathematics well.
May be you are still under your parent.

taiocol: $2000 is aChicken change, that money cant feed me 4 3hrs.

adconline: Ignorant Mofos talking as if 18k is going to feed someone in a month and pay rent. It's blind patriotism that has destroyed Naija. A country like Venezuela with similar oil status pays over 62K in a month. Now, senators who earn more the US president want remove wage law from federal law; leaving governors to determine how much to pay workers.
Can we pay like Venezuela, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq?

taiocol: is dangote reacher than i am.

ajalaolanr: There's tax returns for every American by dec of every year, this also includes money paid to the children under 18, yes they pay a lot of tax but, they see the impact of their taxes, food is so cheap, you can feed a whole house less than 100 dollars a month and this is having good food...I can go on..

9jadelta: but u can ask or government to give u all that right? if American citizens run away to another country that have electricity and good roads when their country was still bad, who would have built the country that u want to run to today?

Arsenate: If you are honest with yourself, you would know that one can live on 500naira (about 3 dollars) per day (15000 naira per month) in almost all Nigerian towns. I strongly doubt if one can survive with 3 dollars per day in the most American cities.
Not that I'm saying we can't do better but your thread reeks of insincerity.

Baybe: They use the taxes gotten from rich men to take care of the poor.

That's why I envy them other than that, the cost of living over there is ridiculously high

Arsenate: If you are honest with yourself, you would know that one can live on 500naira (about 3 dollars) per day (15000 naira per month) in almost all Nigerian towns. I strongly doubt if one can survive with 3 dollars per day in the most American cities.
Not that I'm saying we can't do better but your thread reeks of insincerity.

Idi Amin: Bro, If USA give you visa today, talk true if you no go sell your papa land run comot. I know it's not easy anywhere in the world but comparing life in Nigeria to life in America is madness

Who is bro?

Mr. Mann:

I prefer to live in a place I can hustle 2 jobs, work overtime and still enjoy good food and social amenities. I CARELESS if the standard of living is high. Is the standard of living in Nigeria not high? Yet you pay tax and the jagabans share your tax amongst themselves and you say e go better. Sorry o!

Okay

ayobase: The state of California's minimum wage of $10 (N1,500) per hour to start by 2016. It seems it is about $8 (N1,200)at the moment.

A US citizen that works 10 hrs daily for 20 days gets approximately N300,000 ($2,000) per month!

Nigeria's is N18,500 ($123) per month. Meaning N92 ($0.6) per hour pay.


Why won't people wanna run go greener pasture.

#Im just saying ni o#


http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/12/bill-set-to-raisecaliforniaminimumwageto10.html

manny4life:

It's easy to state they earn $10/hr but you did not include taxes (SS, State, Federal, and Medicare), the cost of living vs Nigeria are way different. Nigeria has her own problems and while Nigerian wage is low (peanut), Nigeria does have it good to a certain degree. Please don't envy $10/hr, it's NOTHING.

omibia: After all said and done, some of us still manage to save close to $800 per month even while receiving $10/hr (your so called minimum wage). I wonder if some of you who claim to be living good over there can afford to save that at the end of the month. Anyway, continue leaving in 9ja because we ain't complaning here.