Kobojunkie:
Explain what you mean by the statement in bold abeg!

2. Standard of living was low leading to payment of double salary? Can you please explain these claims of yours.

Kingosytex:


If you are opportune to stay in a sane country for just a week, you will understand that Nigeria is the hell that the Bible talks about.

VeeVeeMyLuv:


@ Meddymeddy. See what u are looking for

hegelian:

Meaning you would never have achieved what you claimed to achieve without being duiiusand cutting corners.. Which means you are one of those destroying the countries.. You came back to the country because you couldn't be fraudulent and cutting corners I those country u were and run back to where your devilish behaviour will not be checkmated..

YorubaPrince:


You wey nvr reach airport dey brag abt abroad.

Werey, kontinu..

Meddymeddy:
■ Which part did you not understand? I said the standard of living was low, which means things were cheap. Like buying a bag of rice for 3k.

IjeBos:


Lol. I would disregard whatever this guy has to say. He's a known compulsive liar here. He'll tell you he did Undergrad at Cambridge in the UK and Penn in the US at the same time. He has both been to the US and has never been to the US.
He has close to 100 usernames here. Check out his previous monikers Slyfoxx,SlyfoxxJoe,Slyfoxx911(and all his variations) and Timesup234(and all his variations). Same themes.
He's quite active in the US politics thread, beggars Den and gambling threads. A few years ago he was begging on this forum for 1.5k for transport money, now he's a Big Boy. Not sure why he has a need to compulsively lie.

IjeBos:


Lol. I would disregard whatever this guy has to say. He's a known compulsive liar here. He'll tell you he did Undergrad at Cambridge in the UK and Penn in the US at the same time. He has both been to the US and has never been to the US.
He has close to 100 usernames here. Check out his previous monikers Slyfoxx,SlyfoxxJoe,Slyfoxx911(and all his variations) and Timesup234(and all his variations). Same themes.
He's quite active in the US politics thread, beggars Den and gambling threads. A few years ago he was begging on this forum for 1.5k for transport money, now he's a Big Boy. Not sure why he has a need to compulsively lie.

Swiftgrp:




Point is:
A lot of economic headwinds affecting many countries globally
are caused by localised
maladministration and unforseen international economic contagions or global recessions.

IjeBos:
■ Lol. I would disregard whatever this guy has to say. He's a known compulsive liar here. He'll tell you he did Undergrad at Cambridge in the UK and Penn in the US at the same time. He has both been to the US and has never been to the US.
He has close to 100 usernames here. Check out his previous monikers Slyfoxx,SlyfoxxJoe,Slyfoxx911(and all his variations) and Timesup234(and all his variations). Same themes.
He's quite active in the US politics thread, beggars Den and gambling threads. A few years ago he was begging on this forum for 1.5k for transport money, now he's a Big Boy. Not sure why he has a need to compulsively lie.

IjeBos:


Lol. I would disregard whatever this guy has to say. He's a known compulsive liar here. He'll tell you he did Undergrad at Cambridge in the UK and Penn in the US at the same time. He has both been to the US and has never been to the US.
He has close to 100 usernames here. Check out his previous monikers Slyfoxx,SlyfoxxJoe,Slyfoxx911(and all his variations) and Timesup234(and all his variations). Same themes.
He's quite active in the US politics thread, beggars Den and gambling threads. A few years ago he was begging on this forum for 1.5k for transport money, now he's a Big Boy. Not sure why he has a need to compulsively lie.

helpee:
You have never stepped out of Nigeria. That 40 dollars will only barb your hair abroad. At most, two meals in a cheap restaurant where they will give you fries and one small chicken.
No one is saying Nigeria is perfect, comparing dollar to naira at face value is nonsense

BornAgainCow:


Obsessed. Following me everywhere. Why don’t you tell them how you admitted Peter Obi is your father and he used to beat your mother like a dog every night? Pls tell us the whole truth.


Jobless fvck. Following me everywhere.

BornAgainCow:


Shut up you twatt. I came from that same UK okay. I know how the system works there. It’s not like there is no corruption it’s not just easily accessible to people of a certain race and social status. If you truly live there then you should know this. so spare me this “holier than thou” attitude okay?

Yes Nigeria is a country where your connections take you far. That’s what I meant by cutting corners. I never mentioned any overt corrupt act but your stupid self just had to come make a clown yourself on my mentions. Lazy? You have no idea who you’re taking to. I run over 6 separate entities in Nigeria now. I will keep cutting corners to make my businesses more prosperous. If e pain you go and jump off Tower bridge. Mumu.

Bakrabas:
It's well ....

I didn't know the period that op was talking about but from what I heard from my parents and lecturers, Nigeria was once a great nation.

Bad leaders, insecurity and poor economy are the major problems.

I've $40 dollars now I don't want to spend it cheaply because it's almost ₦40,000 to tell you how poor is our economy. Who knows maybe be in few weeks to come $40 might be #80,000 I didn't pray for such though

tosinhtml:


This is not true for countries across Europe, I guess madrid is a good place to live but a decent apartment that was $500 in UK or Canada in 2002 is now $1400 in 2023. Infact Canada has housing crisis at the moment. You can read about it using Google, it is not an hidden news at all.

tosinhtml:


This is a partially false, most of the people living paycheck to paycheck are always in disarray when they lose their jobs. The citizens are paid monthly when unemployed but sometimes that money may not be enough, so they have to work to live above their cost of living. A lot of Europeans get loans for vacation, then travel. They start working to repay those loans in years or months, that is difficult as well.

You actually need enough liquid cash, investments to live a safe & comfortable life. Don't let anyone deceive you with this European lifestyle. For example, most African parents who relocated don't take student loans, they pay their kids tuition fully so as to enable their kids build wealth in the future.

Ekejoestar:


Minitary ko, sanitary ni.

We simply have wicked men in power, most of our leaders have traveled out of Nigeria to saner climes and they see how well developed those places are but won't try an make Nigeria to be like those places they've been to.

Meddymeddy:
I have a question I want to ask.

When I was born in Nigeria, I met the economy at a certain stage, and what I observed is that when the economy rises, it never drops. I've heard stories from the past about how the economy was. Going back to the 1960s and 1970s, the standard of living was very low, to the extent that a double salary was paid during the Gowon regime.


Those who have traveled out of Nigeria to countries that have a better economy than Nigeria How does it feel, and how did it impact your life?

sulaak:


Lazy Nigerian using the race card. Indians are doing very well yet this useless Nigerian who cannot hack-it the UK with all the opportunity and stability believe that his cutting corner strategy in Nigeria is something to be proud of.

IjeBos:


I guess the pretense wore off Slyfoxx/Timesup/BornAgainCow. I should have mention not only is a pathological liar, he's a degenerate as well.

tundepy:
Life here in Kuwait is amazing, no tax, a lot savings as well, just get a decent job, education or no, you are good to go.. Many Kuwaitis always ask me wetin I dey do for their country, just because 9ja get oil, they think say Nigeria is better.. God help 9ja

Unemadu:
The difference is in the standard of living. Because the western world has better economies, they therefore have more money to deploy to services. Also people have more money to afford more things. in America some older people will tell you that when they went to high school, they didn’t have ac in classrooms, only fans but today its unthinkable to be in class without AC in Florida. Also back in the day, many people here were using septic tanks in homes just like Nigeria. But the as years went by, the govt took them of septic tanks and put them on sewage system. So in esssnce when you earn more, standard of living improves. Nigeria is earning very little with a gdp per capita of $2,500

Kobojunkie:
I don't want to do that cause I fear I will end up like the average Nigerian, always chasing delusions.

BornAgainCow:


Read into it what you like. I don’t care. I’m just telling you the hard truth. You can choose to go be a slave in a foreign land that will never appreciate you and treat you as second class human or be a king in your own land and play the game as it is here. The choice is yours.

Gerrard59:


Sha, it is their lifestyle, and debt aids the economy in terms of consumption. However, obtaining a loan to use it for leisure purposes (travel, not car purchase) does not make economic sense to me.



The bold is true. While most might be contented, to live a truly comfortable life with low debt, one needs to amass enough in liquid cash, investments and salary. Your last line is also interesting because it means black Africans should have a leg up or be equally financially (factoring social/racial differences) in the abroad compared to natives. Is that applicable to first generation or second generation Nigerians?

tosinhtml:


Yes black Africans do have an advantage, first generation immigrants hustle more & over work themselves just to raise some extra funds for cushion. They usually save up for their kids tuition or create a kids trust fund account, work extra hours and pay it off once. They also don't usually chase their kids out immediately after 18, the home was still a shelter for most African kids.

There is a tech Youtuber named Bukola who works in Google, in one of her videos she spoke about how her parents paid off her tuition & they never needed to take loans, this helped her focus more on her career & take jobs that she really loved instead of living for survival trying to pay off loans.

Immigrants also built wealth faster, they focus more on STEM courses rather humanities that usual natives focus on. An average black African or Indian will rather study medicine in the US than a native American. Meanwhile native black Americans keep complaining that life is unfair & most of them want to be come rappers.

Gerrard59:


I have watched few of her videos. In one, she said her parents moved via the Visa Lottery and she appreciates being in the US considering the stories she hears from her cousins in Nigeria. But is the same across the Atlantic in the UK and parts of Europe?

I hope the second generation pays it forward.

BornAgainCow:
Depends on what you went there for. But I can tell you no place like home (Nigeria) at the end of the day.

These advanced countries can turn you into a slave working the rest of your life to pay taxes and service debt without ever experiencing true wealth.

In few short years since I’ve been back to Nigeria I have experienced progress at a rate that would have been almost impossible over there. You see the advantage Nigeria has over those counties is that it’s easier to cut corners here. As long as you have the right connects 😉

TheGreatIYANU:



You see the bolded? Your ilk are the reason Nigeria is where it is today.

You go abroad and abide by their policies, but return to Nigeria and actively look for ways to cut corners just to make quick wealth.

You are the cause. You are the curse.