samhardy:


Same here.. I desperately wanna leave 9ja. The future is not bright here. Let connect make we dey talk. One day iyanu asele. Sent u mail.

Tellemall:
Two things this thread will be full of:

1. Convert the pay off a van driver/mortician/busser/whatever to the salary of a politician in Nigeria blah blah crew.

Please, tell us how they have the same expenses or is this just a shallow comparison of figures meant to intimidate your locals onto traveling to become morticians etc? Do you have the same expenses? No . So, what are you comparing? Why not just post your submission without sounding so bitter and ridiculous? Oh well, Nigerians and baseless pride are inseparable.

2. I will become a billionaire in Nigeria crew

If so, why is only Dangote your Nigerian billionaire? Do you think he did so with pointless hubris? Why didn't your ancestors become billionaires in their homelands?
Because it's not so easy as you think. Not everyone out there is a mortician. From their weak gloating points they want to make you insecure, but why must you lie to yourselves?


Unlisted: The reasonable ones who don't have to mention either of the two points above because they are not so pained that they are morticians and not billionaires after all. Even those without permits are here fuming and acting haughty. You can smell the bitterness of the two factions, arrogance leaking with each pointless post.

ajl:
I met a Taxify driver yesterday who said that a US visitors visa is all he needs to have a good life in the US and that a job is waiting for him. That got me cracking. When I told him that no one is going to employ him because he has to live as an illegal alien once his visa expires, it's like I was talking gibberish in his ears. Too many ignorant Nigerians.

odigbosky:



Nothing here is guaranteed at all. That's why those with jobs here in Nigeria and those without jobs still run abroad

ajl:


At the end of the day my conclusion is that traveling out to seek greener pasture elsewhere is a temporary solution. Because I found out most Nigerians that left the country at some point are hoping and yearning that Nigeria work so they could return. In fact significant number are returning. But occasionally with bad experience on returning. So, the "demon" we are all running away from is "sitting on the bench at home" waiting for us. Until we all.stop running and face our problem head-on, we are only fooling ourselves. I went around Lagos in last few days and my conclusion is that the weakest links are the government/public officials and docile masses who choose not to question their government. In the affluent areas I see new businesses and structures that were not there when I visited some years back. But in the slum part of Lagos, specifically on the core Lagos Island, nothing has changed. In fact things have deteriorated even more with hoardes of idle youths, inaccessible roads, terrible sanitary conditions. Surprisingly in all.of these, people seem to be catching their fun as if its all normal. We Nigerians have a terrible tolerance level that it's getting suicidal.

byrron:


The quoted extract above defines most black Americans who despite been born into such opportunities but still constitutes the greatest nuisance in the whole universe.

They are genealogicaly lazy to the core.(that word does not exist)

Ugosample:


to tell you the truth

we have an illegal immigrant uncle in my family
And from the monies he has sent back to take care if his wife and three kids, Build a small house for them there in Onitsha (that even gives them some rent btw from the BQ at the back) and the car he sent for them plus pocket money over the last six years, being an illegal immigrant is the best thing that has happened to him
just that he has not been back since then
And you know why.

sometimes living as an illegal abroad is better than the lives most lead in that failed $hithole country called NiggerArea

Some deceiving themselves that they are living "well" in that zoo because they are making a paltry N180k (which btw most Nigerians don't make o)
una eye go soon clear

when the idiot in Abuja aso rock bastardise that coubytt finish
may be that 180k will not even be enough to get you $hit in 4 years time.

Anyone who is getting a raw deal in Nigeria can always try elsewhere
It's not a bad idea
But please behave yourselves when you get there and remember where you come from
that's all.....

Ugosample:


maybe its Nigerians in the 40s /50s that have such yearning

I have not met many millenial Nigerians who would rather live in Nigeria than abroad
especially the ones already abroad...

It's beyond the failed economics of Nigeria and all that.

the predominant mentality in NIGGERAREA is shitty and warped and worrisome
this above is the MAIN reason my I myself do not thing I will ever live in Nigeria permanently again or raise kids there

the economics aside
how can you live in a society that

glorifies and craves superstition and diabolism
rationalizes rape and violence against women
exhibit so much wickedness to those they consider beneath then (e.g. employer beating up employees/wilfully withholding their pay)
the one that ignorance is rife
And the long list goes on.

Those going to Canada for example via express entry got the fund to live fairly okay in naija (I mean about 4m+ is involved directly and indirectly)
But they have seen beyond the economics
a country whose fate is determined by hordes of almajiri and agbero voters is in trouble

Ugosample:


if you do not understand in full the factors that predisposed them to live the life they do...
It's better you do not comment

It's just like what many black south Africans fave too
if Nigerians lived through jim crow and all that mess like black Americans did
our society will be a broken one too.

tho I am not exonerating them 100 %
But all those things done against them have its effect (which you as a Nigerian did not face, you are an immigrant)

But still they should pick themselves up

Mavin1:

How about welder? I'm currently learning, have a dream of coming over in the next two years by God's grace.

Ugosample:


maybe its Nigerians in the 40s /50s that have such yearning

I have not met many millenial Nigerians who would rather live in Nigeria than abroad
especially the ones already abroad...

It's beyond the failed economics of Nigeria and all that.

the predominant mentality in NIGGERAREA is shitty and warped and worrisome
this above is the MAIN reason my I myself do not thing I will ever live in Nigeria permanently again or raise kids there

the economics aside
how can you live in a society that

glorifies and craves superstition and diabolism
rationalizes rape and violence against women
exhibit so much wickedness to those they consider beneath then (e.g. employer beating up employees/wilfully withholding their pay)
the one that ignorance is rife
And the long list goes on.

Those going to Canada for example via express entry got the fund to live fairly okay in naija (I mean about 4m+ is involved directly and indirectly)
But they have seen beyond the economics
a country whose fate is determined by hordes of almajiri and agbero voters is in trouble

Mancala:
Lots of responses have suggested nursing and IT. They are both decent choices but in my experience, some of the top candidates for ageism. Nursing ranks very high as one of the professions where you get burnt out quickly. The best way out is to go back to school and become either a PA or nurse practitioner. IT requires continuous learning which gets more difficult as you age . It is really a "younger persons" game.
It is very easy to work in the U.S. and make good money, but don't forget to plan for your retirement. All those illegal folks earning $4k per month are not paying into soc sec and will have no benefits...financial or healthcare. They had better be saving like crazy or else have a backup plan to move back to Nigeria when they can't work for a living anymore.

Mizwisdom:



You have not met? how many people do you know and how can your friends be a yardstick to determine the yearnings of over 10 million Nigerians abroad? my goodness! you're ridiculous

Ugosample:


wow Wizdom

how far na?

e don tey

I missed you

how is the stacking paper going?

GoodFaith:


"IT requires continuous learning which gets more difficult as you age . It is really a "younger persons" game."
IT does require continuous learn there are people in 62 to 68 still working in the IT
Leading project
Using year of experience to help the new kids with the new skills

samhardy:


Am applying for visa there. I v sent u a mail so we can relate beta. Thanks

ritrose:



Pls ooo include me to the mail so we form a group to help each other travel out quickly

BarryLondon007:

Yeah I replied chief

IronGalaxy:
It is clear whatever they do, seems to be rubbing the hosts the wrong way.

As long as we occupy your mind rent free. I know you won't mind as it would be quite empty anyways

Ugosample:



sometimes living as an illegal abroad is better than the lives most lead in that failed $hithole country called NiggerArea

Some deceiving themselves that they are living "well" in that zoo because they are making a paltry N180k (which btw most Nigerians don't make o)
una eye go soon clear

Bawss1:


Dude, there's no justification for living as an illegal immigrant overseas. Please stop misleading the gullible readers on here with that kind of talk.

axponline:
The US will be whatever you make of it.
e.g my panel beater back home in ogba ikeja many years ago somehow came to the us. I met him at a function. Apparently he now owns a thriving motor body workshop here in Atlanta. Back home he had nothing. Here he probably makes more than many professionals from his business. One thing he did was to learn all the modern techniques in auto body repairs.

Nigerians in the US are known all over the country for their hard work and resilience. Lawyers, doctors, IT professionals nurses, pharmacists, mechanics, car dealers, night club owners, petrol station owners, grocery store owners, limousine company owners , pastors, cab drivers, uber, and of course people who still do menial jobs.

Many of them own their own house, send their kids to the best colleges etc.
every american in have come across will always tell me..... I know a Nigerian who ..etc . 100 times out of 100 its always the same answer. I have a nigerian friend or co worker or husband or friends husband etc.

Finally, when nigerians have a party in the US, both white and black people open their mouth in amazement at the clothes, food and drink.
Why do I say this. Because I know for a fact that Nigerians have made an ever lasting mark in the US that people from no o
other country can match (maybe India & china in terms of economic status but not socially)

Kokaine:
lol.
To me in the long run, a person doing an odd job in the diaspora is living a better life than a working class here. I mean just see the level of insecurity in Nigeria alone. Injustice everywhere. Police killing civilians. No roads in the south, no light in 2019. What is in this country to live for really?

Ugosample:


I don hear you


I made my assumption based on what I have seen over the years

especially with relatives of mine....

They are more useful to their family back in Nigeria as illegal im migrants in America than they ever were in that failed shithole third world zoo called NiggerArea.

they send money via proxies at regular intervals to their families
bought cheap land and someone helped build small homes for them
etc

many Nigerians are redundant and useless to themselves in Nigeria
a walk round the streets will show you.

So please

afroxyz:


that's your opinion. I didn't come to this life to live and die as a menial worker. If menial work was as glorified as you people put it the whites wouldn't leave those jobs for Indians, Pakistanis and your lot. manual work is a stepping stone but for christ sake dont glorify it because you are in a white man's country where you leave as a 4th class citizen.

I prefer to live as a lion in the Jungle than be a dog in the city.

afroxyz:


that's your opinion. I didn't come to this life to live and die as a menial worker. If menial work was as glorified as you people put it the whites wouldn't leave those jobs for Indians, Pakistanis and your lot. manual work is a stepping stone but for christ sake dont glorify it because you are in a white man's country where you leave as a 4th class citizen.

I prefer to live as a lion in the Jungle than be a dog in the city.