Living in Nigeria VS Living in Canada

Nigeria: You can have many Househelps
Canada: You Can't, too expensive. You'd do everything yourself

N: You can have your mechanic come to your house and pick/fix your car
C: You gotta book for the mechanic 1/2 weeks ahead and take/tow your car to their store.

N: You can buy land and build your own house
C: You CAN'T except you are Elon Musk. You will have to mortgage a property and pay till you are 65-70 years old

C: You Pay Property Insurance
N: Wetin be this 👆👆👆

N: Average car Insurance is 70k naira Per year
C: You pay at least $150 pm depending on Area

N: You have a good circle of friends and buddies around you
C: You are isolated, your closest buddy might be 10 hours drive away.

C: Beaches, Parks and waterside entries are free
N: Eruku must collect money before you enter Elegushi or Alpha beach

N: Tech is still in its Infancy, so you have buffet to feast on if you know what you are doing
C: Tech is advanced and you are in constant battle with Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese and others

N: 12 months for enjoyment and to have fun
C: You only have 3 month to really enjoy and that's if you can afford it

N: As a single woman bad as e bad, you'd still have one or two guys on your case and ready to serve😘
C: You'd rely 99% on machinery 🤐🤐🤐

N: An average Nigeria has at least 12 free social events to attend a year (weddings, birthdays, house openings, anniversary, naming ceremony, child dedication, memorials, freedom)
C: If you see 3, you've had a blast you be odogwu

N: Earn around $20k a year, you are rich. You can buy the entire FourPoints By Sharaton in V.I 😂😂🤣
C: Earn $60k a year, You still are struggling

N: Plenty free monies from uncles, friends, fathers, politicians
C: You could get a couple rebates from the govt. but it comes with clauses. No other free money from anywhere

N: You can dodge and avoid tax confidently and easily
C: Dem no born you well

N: Max 2 weeks to see a doctor for a procedure
C: Could take up to 6 months and more

C: You could get sued if it snowed and someone falls on your walk way and gets injured
N: Anybody can like to fall inside gutter, na him and him papa business

C: Straight forward, orderly, no razz ness, no back door
N: All of us dey craze


N: Sim cards are free
C: You must get a minimum of 2 years contract to get a sim card.

N: You can get your drivers license in the comfort of your home and start driving.
C: Dem no born you well. Written test first to get Class 7 before road test to get Class 5

C: Time is money.
N: No regard for Timing. Lamba everywhere
If I'm forgetting anything, Please add them below

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Wow. Detailed. Nigeria only had one disadvantage compared with the west. And it's all about money

Inability to earn much

Purchasing power ability

Inability to access loans

Most friends are fake and don't come to your rescue when you're in need financially ( Though some circles may have one another's back )


The entire problem of Nigeria is money issues from start till finish.

You can imagine as a young enterprenuer, I took a statement of around say Five M to banks and they made it look petty that to access 500k loan, I must present a statement of up to 25M over a (6-12 months duration - different banks and different tenure requests )


So, if you're a young person doing business in Nigeria, how then do you go through tough times.


If not for Sterling Spectra loans, the bulk we read online are not just lies, the banks have formulated situations and excuses where they do not offer loans or very ridiculous mechanisms before they can even begin to discuss offering oennes as loans.


People will continue to leave so long as the country's financial systems remains in the wilderness.


CBN must exact hefty fines on Hanks for not issuing loans.


Must create systems where how banks give loans are structured.

Must insure up to 75-85% of loans and force banks to comply with given loans since they become heavily backed by insurance



With the salaries 80% of Nigerians earn, I don't understand how the young generation would be able to marry.

Secondly, marry have kids and stabilize the home.

Thirdly, return to a life of rest and pension with the abysmally poverty induced salaries people earn.


To me now, earning less than 200,000 Naira is extremely fatal. The redemption of Nigeria must be a willingness to do things right.

Security
Retirement benefits
World class health
You can get a job anytime
Food no be president problem
Social security if you fall sick or out of job
Quality and free or subsidized education for kids


Add all these to show the major reasons for relocating

Home sweet home las las.....this world is not my home

Are you still in canada?

if you are in canada please kindly comeback and enjoy your Nigeria.

Abi suffer no dey tire you?

wrongman665:
Are you still in canada?

if you are in canada please kindly comeback and enjoy your Nigeria.

Abi suffer no dey tire you?

Read the post first.

The thing with clowns like this is they will never return home.

ednut1:
The thing with clowns like this is they will never return home.

And when they do, they have Canadian citizenship.

Capital C for Clowns

In Nigeria, you can be dumb af, and still get a good job

Half truths are more dangerous than outright lies. At least outright lies can be spotted and debunked but half truths is difficult to spot cos some truths and lies are mixed together.

Except you are well informed before hand or do your own independent research, chances are that you will be deceived by half truths.

This is what the OP has done. Mixing true with untrue about Canada. Anyway in this century, anyone that relies on someone else knowledge to make decisions without their own in depth research and analysis deserves to be deceived, I have no sympathy for them

if Nigeria develop it will be very hard to escape tax except if your a wealthy business man

On the SIM card issue, was surprised to see prepaid Lucky Mobile SIM cards at dollarama close to my apartment. Reminded me of a prepaid Uk SIM cards (used lebara or something back then).
What I noticed is that there is a strange kind of monopoly here. So, higher tiered companies buy into the middle and lower tiers and they become essentially the same except on paper.

However, would like to add:

Nigeria: you can easily get a usb internet stick
Canada: you mostly have to get a contract or be in an apartment that provides it as an amenity

Yankee101:
Security
Retirement benefits
World class health
You can get a job anytime
Food no be president problem
Social security if you fall sick or out of job
Quality and free or subsidized education for kids


Add all these to show the major reasons for relocating

Don't misquote op and read his/her article well.. It just comparism and individual takeaways

Nothing comes easy both home and abroad but the comparison sit well. People are comparing US & Canada let alone naija of all country. We go survive

Yankee101:
Security
Retirement benefits
World class health
You can get a job anytime
Food no be president problem
Social security if you fall sick or out of job
Quality and free or subsidized education for kids


Add all these to show the major reasons for relocating

This is not true, please sir go to tiktok and search Canada cost of living or Canada housing problem. Canadians are complaining and crying bitterly because of inability to make ends meet. Housing rent just doubled in Canada recently. Please do your research well. Trudeau is likely to lose the next election,he just sacked many in his cabinet after lots of criticism from citizens.