Nightstalker:


Another drug addict comes to nairaland to open a thread just to type rubbish.

This one had never been outside Nigeria in real life , this one lives in one village in Ekiti and is a mental patient.
You can't even get a flat for 1 million in lekki , and the most flats go for between 2 - 6 million a year in Lekki

The America you visited I have a sister who lives there and works in a tech company her rent isn't even close to $1000 for her home and she commutes by sub 30 minutes to work everyday with ease .


You are sick and a mad man , next time you finish taking drugs and want to comment restrict yourself to commenting on the happenings in your village

Idiot

Casper21:
An American average houses are so expensive than houses in Banana island.

An average single worker in USA living in a one room rented apartment pays $2000 monthly. In a year it totals to $24000. That's about #9,000,000 naira in conversion rate of 380.

While in Naija, the most beautiful 3 bedroom ensuite flat in Lekki can be gotten for#600k or 700k yearly. About $1800.

Imagine earning $4k and your rent eats up 50% of Ur income and you then spend extra $1000 for your bills and taxes. see why it's somehow difficult for your friends or family who are abroad to send you Money?

davidhobo:


Oga you dont know anything. For one, its even difficult to generalize as america is like a continetnt, not just a country. And its not even called one room apartment over there Its called studio apartment(your self con) one bed apartment.

Now we have nomenclature out of the way, different cities and different areas of town have different rental values.

A studio apartment in any of the second tier cities like Baltimore, New Jersey,, charleston, Detroit etc costs way way less than 1k usd in the inner cities( that is closer to downtown, but perhaps more notorious) while in the suburbs, further away, and mostly white dominated, it can be $500 or less.

In the tier one cities like new york, LA, frisco, Miami, Boston, a studio apartment can go for as much
1k or 1k5/depending on location. In mahattan, you can even pay 2k or more, but how many manhattans do we have in America?

Summary, is: on average, studio apartments cost around 1k.usd per month in America.

And where can you see 3bedroom.in lekki for 700k..wetin you dey smoke? If you no.holl your 2.5m dont even go near.

obonujoker:
3 bedroom ensuite flat in lekki, 700k??

Are you ok??

egopersonified:
As una dey see America as heaven, na so Americans dey see New Zealand as heaven. This life no balance.

obonujoker:
3 bedroom ensuite flat in lekki, 700k??

Are you ok??

cooooooks:
The only place where you'll rent a one room apartment, i.e, a studio not a one bedroom apartment, for $2,000 is in Manhattan and downtown LA or Hollywood.

In some parts of the USA, rent for a 3 bedroom apartment is less than $1,200. So it depends on where you are.

Casper21:
An American average houses are so expensive than houses in Banana island.

An average single worker in USA living in a one room rented apartment pays $2000 monthly. In a year it totals to $24000. That's about #9,000,000 naira in conversion rate of 380.

While in Naija, the most beautiful 3 bedroom ensuite flat in Lekki can be gotten for#600k or 700k yearly. About $1800.

Imagine earning $4k and your rent eats up 50% of Ur income and you then spend extra $1000 for your bills and taxes. see why it's somehow difficult for your friends or family who are abroad to send you Money?

Romangalactic:

Cococandy wont agree wit dis,I can remember one tym she claimed rent iz lyk $5k in NY

cooooooks:
In parts of NY/LA, yes. Even $10k for penthouses.

Romangalactic:

Sure,bt dese ar nt d average & basic price.
Hw many naijans imigrants can afford 5 or 10k par month rent On wich source of income? I bliv har point den wz makin it seem lyk 5k iz wat average NYorkers pay for rent.

linearity:
Average is relative in the US....and I don’t know what you mean by ‘one room rented apartment’.

Are you talking about shared sublet rooms or studio apartments or one bedroom apartment?

In any case, you can get a studio or one bedroom apartment in Manhattan for less than $2,000/month and that is where it is more costly.

If you prefer to save money and don’t mind commuting, you can get it for far lesser in any of the other New York City boroughs or if you cross over the Hudson to Newark or any of the cities in Essex County or the other counties sharing boundary with New York City, you can get a decent three bedroom apartment or a whole house for far less.

Casper21:
An American average houses are so expensive than houses in Banana island.

An average single worker in USA living in a one room rented apartment pays $2000 monthly. In a year it totals to $24000. That's about #9,000,000 naira in conversion rate of 380.

While in Naija, the most beautiful 3 bedroom ensuite flat in Lekki can be gotten for#600k or 700k yearly. About $1800.

Imagine earning $4k and your rent eats up 50% of Ur income and you then spend extra $1000 for your bills and taxes. see why it's somehow difficult for your friends or family who are abroad to send you Money?

J111333:
It all depends on location. 1bed/1bath in Redondo Beach California may cost up to 2k/month or more while it may cost $1500 or less in cities like Carson, Wilmington, Gardena and Inglewood that are less than 10miles apart.

Reality is that if you make saving money a priority in the States, you can save a lot especially when you're single.

Problem is that a lot of Nigerians live beyond their means because they have credit cards available and also borrow so much in funding needless educational degrees.

When the billing statements start coming in the mails, saving money will surely become almost impossible.

SmartKitty:
NY is very expensive. I am living in a good neighborhood in Dallas, the rent here for a 1-2 bedrooms apartment is about $1,000-1,200 USD. I am paying a good size 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms house and on a big land $1,000 a month + house taxes and insurance it makes $1,400 monthly. If you have a good income and a good credit history, you can get the house, specially now because the interest is low. Very convenient because the house price in a good neighborhood usually increases the price and you make money in few years.

tonyson010:

But one can find houses with cheaper price in cities close to NY?

cooooooks:
In parts of NY/LA, yes. Even $10k for penthouses.

SmartKitty:

5-10K is not average for Americans, it's very expensive. Average is 1-2,5 K, higher is for rich people. People here know how to count money. Average people, if they can afford to pay 5-10K, they better get a mortgage and buy the house and they will not waste money on the expensive rent. Usually renters are young people just starting out of their parents house, people with bad credit (no banks giving them mortgage), drug addicts, new immigrants, temporary stay when you move to the new city, travelers for work or tourists, etc.

cooooooks:
You clearly did not read the thread.
I said parts of LA/NY. For ultra rich.
In the abroad, anyone with relatively modest parents buys their homes. Even university students buy their apartments with parents' money.

SmartKitty:

In America parents have nothing to do with buying the house, very few help their adult children. They just release the adult children to the world. Go, work and buy your own house. As a parent, I live in my own house, I worked for it, retiring I maybe sell the big house and buy a smaller one or I sell everything, live in rental and travel, parents enjoy the life, or move abroad.

Parents money it's parents'. Adult children build their own wealth.

cooooooks:
Not my experience.

Parents who regularly make $150,000 a year (combined) give their children some money for the downpayment on the house.

Some tie it to things like education or getting married/having kids or staying close to them.

It is not as though the 'kids' can not afford a home. However, a parent adding $10,000 might be the difference between getting a house and your 'dream' home.

Casper21:
An American average houses are so expensive than houses in Banana island.

An average single worker in USA living in a one room rented apartment pays $2000 monthly. In a year it totals to $24000. That's about #9,000,000 naira in conversion rate of 380.

While in Naija, the most beautiful 3 bedroom ensuite flat in Lekki can be gotten for#600k or 700k yearly. About $1800.

Imagine earning $4k and your rent eats up 50% of Ur income and you then spend extra $1000 for your bills and taxes. see why it's somehow difficult for your friends or family who are abroad to send you Money?

ehinmowo:


This boy no know anything oo. 600k is the price of a room self-contained in Lekki.

selemempe:
this is a big lie.
An average 3 bedroom flat in America goes for between 900 to 1200 a month. You can get a studio apartment for 500 a month in a city like Atlanta.

Now the truth is that the average town in America has more infrastructure than lekki, asokoro or wherever else our VIPs live in Nigeria.

Also the poorest people in America who earn minimum wage make up to 1200 a month.

Below are pictures of South Central L.A. Its considered a ghetto. Compare it with Lekki