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Wow, already at the finishing line, surely this and that of Enugu may be completed this month.

spyder880:
Under decks......

Please, how does an 80years old woman get to the last floor without elevator?

Timtol:
See a 8storey North Central kwara

How can someone identify organic ones?

Electroweb:
Bought some apples. Looked out for Organic ones...thanks to Originalsly’s earlier post.

I've observed that no one drives car along those roads, does it mean they can't afford or they prefer going green.

revontuli:
It is hard to walk in this city, cause all those buildings draw your eye.
Last 2 photos are the synagogue of Wroclaw, unfortunately it was closed to visits.

Nice to meet you Revoluni

hiawathia1981:
Have you met Revolunti? Revolunti meet Dremca. Dremca meet Revolunti.

How were you able to quickly learn their language because In belive you're an american.

revontuli:
Healthcare system is way better in Finland. In the States there is no public healthcare, everyone depends om employer-provided health insurance and a lot of it is really bad with high monthly fees and out of pocket payments when you go to the hospital. If you are between jobs, and get sick, you are totally screwed. Healthcare and medicine costs are astronomical. That is one big reason I left, I have multiple chronic illnesses and couldn't live with the stress (I lost jobs and been unemployed for a few months after the companies went down and laid off many employees, also the 2008 recession.)
Finns have great public healthcare, it's good for people with chronic illness. You never have to worry about dying from treateble things like asthma if you lose your job. Non-emergency care is slow with long waiting times, it can take months to get an appointment for conditions that aren't life threatening, but if you have the money you can buy private health insurance and get fast service.

Culture is another big difference. Americans do the fake smiles and small talk, strangers smile at you and say how are you doing everywhere, they expect you to do the same and talk about stupid little things. If you don't keep it up at workplace everyday they brand you ass weird and marginalize you. Finns have introverted and quiet culture, you don't have to talk to anyone if you don't want to, no need to wear masks and fake smiles if you have a bad day.

Finns aren't materialistic, unlike most Americans, it's a shameful act to show off material wealth and expensive things. They don't have wasteful shopping culture. Even for outdoors and camping, Americans will buy a load of unnecessary items like gas cookers, expensive tents, comfort gear. Finns buy the simplest, cheapest stuff and make their own fire to cook. I went camping with Finns, they just gather branches and make cooking fire with it. They shapen thin branches with camping knife and use it to cook sausages over fire. Americans will bring a gas cooker, power inverter using car battery to plug the cell phone chargers, and use a set of steel bbq skewers to cook stuff. They will bring car fridges. What's the point of going camping if you bring all the comforts with you? That's just a small example to demonstrate the difference of mentality.

I like the minimalistic, non-materialist culture and harmony with nature so I'm quite happy in Finland. The downside is the limited business opportunity for entrepreneurs. America is paradise for those who start their own business, the system favors businesses and entrepreneurs get huge tax write-offs. It's living hell for wage slaves with bad health. Salaried workers get taxed to death. Finns tax salaried workers to death as well, but at least our taxes are used for things like free education and affordable public healthcare, not for bombing innocent civilians in other countries.

There is institutionalized racism and police brutality targeting blacks in America. Police shooting unarmed innocent blacks is a major problem. There is some racism in Finland but hell of a lot less. I noticed the racism here targets Muslim Somalis who wear Islamic dress, not so much West Africans. Especially after a large number of Somali immigrants went to Syria to join the IS and it was in the headline news.

There was an old friend of mine who was married to a Kenyan lady. One of their neighbors was a nasty racist woman and yelled horrible insults at her all the time. I saw it myself. But most everyone treated her well, it was only that one nasty woman who was being rude and racist. They lived in a small city with no African population. Then again I've seen middle aged racist men yell nasty things at white immigrants, too. Usually it's drunks who do that. There are xenophobes who hate Russians and non-western immigrants. But there's no obsession with race like America, and no police shootings.

Is she originally black or white?

hiawathia1981:
Hi Revontuli,

I wanted to ask you some questions about Finland if I may. Off all the choices of countries to go to, why Finland? What are the major difference s btwn US and Finland? What do you miss most about home? And how do the people relate to you. I know you are not black but have you noticed differences in how the people relate to blacks?
I know, alot of questions but Ive been curious. Been meaning to ask.

You must be a foodie

cococandy:
I need to come visit you

You are more naija than finnish

revontuli:
Yorubas have some highly educated and successful people, nothing against Yorubas in general but they really need to fix that skull mining problem before comparing themselves with Igbos.

Igbos don't do skull mining and human sacrifice for money rituals, that is a huge plus on their side.

Hi khiaa, nice to meet you.

khiaa:
Hello Dremca.

Is it by the same author?

hiawathia1981:
And there is also The art of not giving s f**k. That one is supposed to be really good also

Maybe, she is now an extrovert

Mobilia:
May I ask why you left the Introvert room?

By Stephen Covey, really want to read that book.

hiawathia1981:
I got a stack of books that are waiting to be read. I got a couple of recommendations in the introvert room. One of them is 7 habits of successful people, or something like that

James Allen

hiawathia1981:
Who is the author?

All about how our thinking affects our actions. Is a popular book, you must have heard about it.

hiawathia1981:
What is it about?

Her

Mobilia:
Oh...did you mean to mention me or her sir?

I've been reading some books though I've read them before, my favorite is "As a man thinketh." Am in love with that book.

Mobilia:
I'm laughing cause stuff just got very weird in here....

Nice to meet you guys, mobilia seems to be familiar from Theamerican's thread

hiawathia1981:
Alright, do come in.
Friends...carbabado, mobilia, martino, khiaa meet Dremca.
Dremca meet my friends.

I've been around enjoying you guys gists.

hiawathia1981:
Im doing great. How are you? You went ghost on me. Havent talked to you in awhile

Hello dear, How are you doing?

hiawathia1981:
@dremca


Sup..

Hi, nice to meet you. Can I have your contact to reach you.

merxi55:
I haven't seen my match here... Guys From 32-37 years. Neatness, sensitive, highly intelligent cos I'm sapiosexual..value driven, good dress sense and humor... Well lemme stop here...

Abakpa nti ike

spyder880:
Welcome to Abakpa Nike, Enugu

The house is almost ready. Weldone.

spyder880:
Looking from outside. .....

The house is almost ready. Weldone.

spyder880:
Looking from outside. .....

They can result to using only solar to power only the lift.

spyder880:
My brother, to build skyscrapers dey hungry us o, and I know a couple of guys who want to build it, but energy supply to power the lifts is the problem now. How I wish Nigeria can conquer the electricity problems they have.

Everybody go outside let's fumigate Nigeria !!

Ugosample:
the question you should then ask yourself is that why are Indians far ahead of Nigerians everywhere they go

My guess is....


to a significant degree , it's due to the mentality prevalent among the black community.


Growing up in Nigeria damages the mindset of the people....



You think it's not true? just to round and ask children under 9 what they think anoyr lynching thieves, or Yahoo boys, and the result will open your eyes


Nigeria don kast, and my children will be as far away from it as possible

Do keep on updating us. How do you handle your social media friends who sees your pictures online with the hope of asking for something....

theamerican:
I turned 26 this month, I posted that before my birthday... and saying I spent 25 years in Nigeria doesn't mean I literally spent 25 years on a spot and never moved. I live here and have family back there. So... 26 years counting.

This is really bad. The bad eggs is giving the good eggs bad name.

nnamdi16:
Some of the employers who really love what they see in ur cv will take the time to tell that we Nigerians are known for problems, we thief, we fight, that we are not honest.

I wonder how repair work is done in an event where a pipe get broken in the conduit piping.

spyder880:
Work in progress. ....

What could be the cause?

nnamdi16:
Honestly the way they are fearing Nigerians in UAE, no employer wants to employ a Nigerian. Even if ur interview is going smoothly, the moment u mention u're a Nigerian; that's the end of the interview. They prefer Filipino, India and even Nepal to us.

Please let's alwys try to protect our image. It's really becoming somtin of concern. If our govt doesn't give sh*t about us, why do we have to block our own ways with out hands...At the end of the day, it's still us (the hustlers) that suffers it.