PhillyA:
I interned for a major oil company in Trans-Amadi back in 2006 and I can't for the life of me understand why anyone who isn't an oil worker and/or indigenous to that region would choose to live in Port Harcourt. Sales price of items sometimes inferior in quality to what you'll find in Lagos is doubled the price of items in Lagos. This is true for the most part, except for boli (roasted plantain and fish) which is like 20x the price in Lagos.

Cultists held sway in 2006, and there are gossips they had the backing of the then governor. During onboarding orientation for new hires at my company, we were warned never to display company badge (ID card) outside the company, otherwise we may be kidnapped for ransom. A colleague was stabbed on the street for no reason at all.

If you don't like rain, stay away! It rains all the time, and everywhere gets flooded. I've lived in rainy places like Lagos, Portland, but I've never seen anything like Port Harcourt.

As if that wasn't enough, the disdain towards Yorubas by locals was palpable and in-your-face, and I wondered then if I was in Nigeria. In my defense, it was my first time leaving my bubble of Lagos and SW. I impressed my bosses during internship and was told to come back after graduation but I never did.

PhillyA:


This was my experience. So, I was a JJC in PH and posting hearsay about PH at the same time?

24SEVEN:



Okay, we dont like Yoruba people according to you.. So becos of that you now resort to writing negatives about Ph. Shame on you.

Kinematics:



You should know them naaa. He talks as if the Lagos he is running to is safer than PH..

Depressed101:
[s]you made a wise decision... to me ph is a completely uninhabitable place,I rather take rowdy Lagos than that city of blood...

My first day in PH was charactised by dead bodies littering the street right after setting my foot out of the sunny eru motors I boarded[/s]

24SEVEN:


i know them very well. becos they know Port Harcourt and rivers can give them competition they start to de-market us with all kinds of rubbish lies.

Kinematics:



Haha even a Lagosian too dey talk. Lagos is 100% worse!

Depressed101:
[s]i don't live in Lagos, but i will take Lagos in place of PH even in my sleep..PH is a glorified murder city[/s]..

ubee:
So where Oyigbo dey before? Aba?smh...

24SEVEN:



Okay, we dont like Yoruba people according to you.. So becos of that you now resort to writing negatives about Ph. Shame on you.

ikeseeholdings1:
PH na bad city....Ikwerre boys are not smiling. You don't have gun,you on your own. i could remember back then in 2016, i went to somewhere in Rukpoku. I was busy forming Eko guy, one Ikwerre man asked me to reverse My car which i refused.He went inside his HOUSE and brought out gun (pump action) My brother...na disappear be My name ooo.

Justkatty:
I stay at Abuloma but if you have a teenage boy(boys) please avoid there because na full there

nengibo:
So Oyigbo is now Port Harcourt bros?

CzarChris:
Brotherly, I stayed/worked in ph for 6years before changing jobs and moving to Warri. Osharena, I will pick Warri and Uvwie 10,000x over ph. Area matter be say dem go shine eye for you, if you jinger back, they leave you, but if you dull? You are on your own.

Cairo city(PH) is not for the faint hearted.

Poloyanabo2:

Abuloma is odili road

sageb:

osharena, you know that jakpa, deco, ugbolokposo is rough too. In terms of opportunities, PH is better.

tammyf:

Oil dey Ur head..I rep bonny island anyday anytime....job yakpa

Gerrard59:
Half if not more than half of the recommendations are geared towards insecurity, tells you how unsafe the city is. Now, with the ongoing soot reverberating the entire city, or the can imagine how life is in Port-Harcourt - capital of the one-city state called Rivers. Better Uyo than Port-Harcourt - low crime rates and literally no soot whatsoever.

udomonday:
is like gun is legalised in PH.I worked in a construction company there and was shocked to see labourers coming to work with guns.

24SEVEN:



Okay, we dont like Yoruba people according to you.. So becos of that you now resort to writing negatives about Ph. Shame on you.

Kinematics:



Your post was mixed with experience and hearsay. Go read your write up again. Post purely your experience and stop garnishing it with hearsay. And for you to think that Lagos is more safer than PH is very ridiculous. Just write you are a westerner and you are used to the lifestyle in the west.

We will understand you perfectly well. Afterall me I can't live in the west. Too dirty for my liking. We are trying to clear the dirts in PH, but the one in the west is in a whole new level.
Skull mining is another story.

Kinematics:



Jesus, what did I just read?

PhillyA:


What are the positives about PH?

Gerrard59:
[s]Half if not more than half of the recommendations are geared towards insecurity, tells you how unsafe the city is. Now, with the ongoing soot reverberating the entire city, one can imagine how life is in Port-Harcourt - capital of the one-city state called Rivers. Better Uyo than Port-Harcourt - low crime rates and literally no soot whatsoever.[/s]

sageb:

Odili road is in Amadi Ama

sageb:

some guys don't know that oyigbo is another LGA

Kinematics:



Too numerous to mention. A city that only Lagos and maybe Abuja can boast of more economic opportunities than.


Think about it.

ubee:
So where Oyigbo dey before? Aba?smh...

PhillyA:


In 2006 I struggled to understand how anyone survives on banker's salary in PH. What is the point of opportunities when the cost of living is off the charts?