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Pidgin2:
It's possible if he is sharing flat but you made it seem like he stays alone.

Most people rent a room,if you are living alone there is no need to rent a flat,One Double room is enough average £380 to £500 per month bills inclusive.

shallysgirl:
You haven't seen anything. People have been deceived, you will be shocked.
I know someone who left a great job and life in Nigeria and relocated with his family, now he is full of regrets. He can't return cause himself and wife resigned from jobs people are wishing for. Funny thing they are being fed now by relatives cause they aren't working though they are trying to get their documents. Great mistake, and he acknowledges it.

Big mistake, whole family relocate not papers haba,thier village people logged unto their wi fi

hodari:
I'm in London studying for a master's degree for a year. I'll be out of here by next August, 2018. Why on earth do I need to buy all those things for? Plus the trouble of shipping them back home once i'm done (who will buy them in UK?) It's cheaper to rent them, common sense!!

Your friend is lying to you. When people are paying £600 for room in a shared flat in Stratford? Abeg which kain place in London will you pay £500 and live alone. Not even Peckham sef.

Abeg, tell it to someone else.

will u keep kwiet

Pidgin2:
Where is your friend living? To see a mini flat for that cheap in UK is doubtful.

must one live in a flat, whats wrong in living in a room for starters>

grossintel:
See all your expenses and you still asking him if it's not the same UK you stay in? You are living a big man life in Yankee that is why you have no savings.

My friend stays in UK alone his rent is £500
His home has a mini fridge and where the hell do you rent a fridge, microwave etc?
What exactly are you shopping for £400 monthly? Didn't you see charity shops to buy cheap clothes for £2-£10?Don't you cook your food?
You spend £400 on shopping but don't want to buy a fridge and microwave that will save you money in the long run.

I don't think you live in the UK and if you do, this is a typical example of a broke Nigerian in Yankee. Go there and be forming big boy, don't save money and send here for investments.

He dosnt live in the UK!

human goat mix

spartacus11:
U are just too much. God bless u for me

Dey import used goods to nigeria to make money, take back to America to upgrade their life style, yet dey say nigerians are suffering

Wen Nigerians money is wat is sustaining many of dem over they

Now you are getting the drift .Point is Nigeria is like a virgin land, loads of opportunity to make money however the limiting factor is Initial capital,This is waht youths go abroad to look for,How long it takes, is dependent on howmuch you hustle.

Redman44:
@hoodari

Richmond is a wealthy area of London. So accommodation there will be expensive. Intelligent Nigerians who know what they want to achieve in the UK live in Cities like Birmingham, Coventry and Liverpool. And they work as Carpenters, Plumbers and Gas Engineers. Some of them own Private cleaning companies. You can laugh if you want to but these people are making more money than office workers in the UK, minus the Investment Bankers .

bro dont waste ur breath,he lives in Ghana, not in Richmond,he says he lives in zone6, there is nowhere called zone 6 in London, wen I burst him/her on that he claimed Richmond after google navigation

1234onyekwe:
my dear with that amount u can get a three bedroom flat in gwagwalada,kubwa,chekokere etc.all in Abuja.u guys will be talking for talking sake without being sure of what re saying.

nor mind them ohh, nah so dem dey talk anyhow, one person here say dem dey rent fridge washing machine and microwave for london ahaha

hodari:
Are you not the one who wrote,


Oga, I told you, you must be consistent with your lies.

U must be high on cheap weed.
Plz change your supplier,check who wrote that again, I use £ not $, so when you are sober re read who wrote that,erico2k2 is now pasuma

claremont:
I'm guessing you assume he is single, because it's sheer madness for anyone with a family to live in a single box room in a shared accommodation. Plus, not everyone is interested in unskilled prison worker jobs either. These kind of jobs are for unskilled applicants, not for graduates with Masters degrees. I have noticed that this idea of living in box rooms in shared accommodation seems to be prevalent amongst single guys/ladies living in London due to rent costs, the solution is to relocate out of London.

Plz re read what i wrote as to teh profile of Akpos.
btw fresh graduate cant earn £31k in 80% of joba advertised, in teh civil service they begin @£22 to £25k
regarding relocating out of London, you will lose pay and london weithing moreso,Im of teh generation of Nigerians in teh Uk who work in the Uk but do not live in teh UK if you get waht I mean,hustle here go back to your family in Nigeria.When you have enough money you set up your Biz in Nigeria.thats whatsup.

claremont:
I'm guessing you assume he is single, because it's sheer madness for anyone with a family to live in a single box room in a shared accommodation. Plus, not everyone is interested in unskilled prison worker jobs either. These kind of jobs are for unskilled applicants, not for graduates with Masters degrees. I have noticed that this idea of living in box rooms in shared accommodation seems to be prevalent amongst single guys/ladies living in London due to rent costs, the solution is to relocate out of London.

YES YES SINGLE.

hodari:
Mumu, I'm in Richmond for your information.

ahahah see deM u are in Richmond my azzz,bIG DEAL wHAT has that got to do with waht i asked?,you lot are clear definition of waht the OP was talking about even though 50% OF IT IS bs

hodari:
So you did your master's in 2000 and yet you're doing manual work for £1,600 bah? Atleast be consisent with your lies fvcktard.

I bought a brand new range rover Autobiography in 2012 worth £105k and my house is in N8,U seriously think I earn £1600, then your case is beyond repair.You are now bitter cos you have been found out

hodari:
London zone 6.

Oga stop lying, where in London do they call zone 6?
people like you are the ones the OP is referring to
London zone 6 my azzz

supersystemsnig:
I hear guys in UK are locked up like monks... Na by force, they should come back home...The only guarantees people seem to have abroadis fresh skin, besides this almost nothing..

Dont rely on statements made by that guy.he is way off alignment.

Moety:
Yeah, I'm only here for a year. Why should I buy them? 70% less for where? Peckham abi?

Stop talking rubbish, you have no clue.I was doing my masters back in 2000
ALl what you said up there r BS and you know it, who rents fridge,dish washer, washing machines among us Nigerians living in the Uk, when fridges are less than £150 to buy? so you rent a room and hire all these right? or you think you speaking to bunch of idiots on here
There is no point claiming U live in the Uk wen you are in Ghana

timesup234:
well i was replying to the other guy who called me a "mumu". How much do you make monthly and how do you manage to save $1,000. I wanna learn from you

well I save more than that a month, Im lucky to be working ehre after my masters, that was 2002, Im a profesional so you can guess,But that been said I will give you facts with figures.
Now Akpos just got his papers in the Uk he is 30 years old, job pays £31,560 a year so month pay is in teh region of £2100
job here https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-1/brand-2/xf-51e4d8e9654c/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/12836-201709-Prison-Officer-HMP-YOI-Pentonville-HMP-YOI-Wormwood-Scrubs/en-GB

now he moves near work and rents a room in North London £400 to £500 rent https://www.gumtree.com/p/property-to-rent/single-studio-room-to-let-on-high-road-totteridge-whetstone-n20-9hs/1270881345
transport £100, feeding £150,with my analysis overhead is £700 roughly.

hodari:
Mr. man which UK? Is it not the same one that I'am staying?

Rent-£ 850 pcm
Internet (BT)-£30
Phone (EE) -£15
Tube (Oyster)-£161.84 monthly.
Renting fridge, microwave, washing machine & drier-£40
Utilities (SSE)-£150
Shopping-£400
Drycleaning-£30

That's a total of £1700 (almost 800,000 Naira!) And that's a very modest student lifestyle ooo, assuming you stay locked up in your crib with no enjoyment whatsoever.

To be honest, people are just managing in this fcukd up place.

Bro I think you are missing the point seriously,you are,you chose to live like that, you can live 70% less if you want to,i can give you the stat
on a second note, i just re-read your post, you claim you rent fridge?microwave and washing machine? are u for real?

timesup234:
If you wanna discuss in a matured manner i am all for it but trying to insult me will get both of us off track since i can swing a hammer myself

How does my statement amount to an insult? the guy was right thats what Im saying, there are people saving more than $1000 a month, you seem to be alien to that.

timesup234:
liar! Typical hungry man for yankee comment. The ACH them do commot your account today pain you die. All your labor just dey disappear. I sabi una well well, na $4 remain for your account. Oya go pack snow before you end up homeless.

Y dont you make a reasonable argument instead of sounding in a way I hate to describe?That guy is right, two of my smallies here save more than that in a month cos thier expenses and overhead are very low.

Slaveman343:
No I see desperate people trying to protect an illusion they have created for others that is far from reality. I don't see any balanced view here, all I hear from Nigerians over there is that Nigeria is bad and America is good because they have stable power and water supply and good roads. This argument is no longer holding water anymore since Nigeria is catching up already.

catching up in what aspect?

spartacus11:
Y not?

Just ask her d cost of her insurance

what Insurance, are you talking social insurance?

timesup234:
It is the plain truth. It is impossible to save 10kusd annually in the united states, even those with a paying job of $75,000 cant save that much. Do you know what it means to have $100,0000 in cash in america? 85% of americans dont have it and i am even talking about first class citizens

where you get that rubbish thought from?if U can save $1000 a month you can do $12000 a year.

Slaveman343:
The way I see it. Nigerians living abroad are trying too hard to protect their ego. They know Nigerians have too much respect for those living abroad and are afraid to lose some should Nigerians find out their lives are not all bliss.

Wetin consign me sha, for a long time the power supply in Nigeria has improved immensely. I'm grateful for this and doing the best I can in my capacity. If everyone stayed in Nigeria, put our brains in good use, things will get better than they are.

America is portrayed as good in the media while Nigeria and other supposed third world countries shitholes. So the person bringing up the argument of people migrating to America should not forget media conditioning.

I hope for the day Nigerians will start thinking positively about Nigeria in spite of our present condition. When we tell ourselves we can do it, we put our brains in a healthy state for creativity.

you might be surprised,I would say you are talking based on assumption,have you met any Nigerian abroad who fit into that theme you spoke about?

Pasuma23:
It's obvious the person who posted this tthread has never traveled. When I finished university, I search for job for 7 good years and nothing came up. I traveled to UK with the help of a friend who did visa for me whom I promised to pay once I find something doing. I arrived UK and after two months I got a menial job that pays me 1600$ a month. Now these are my expenses:
House rent per month 350$
Phone subscription for data 21$ unlimited
Food and beverage 150$
Bus ticket for one month to work 100$
After all other expenses I do save up to 800$ every month. Some months I do save 1000$
So please let be realistic about our analysis.

bross stop talking out of ur backside.You have not traveled to the UK!

bigtt76:
Very true but that is because the Nigerian system is dysfunctional. In civilized climes, you pay your bills else you cannot survive. In Nigeria, people find a way to avoid paying bills and that is why we are where we are today.

Abroad, you can't just bump into someone's house and join them in their meal, unlike in Nigeria where you can go to your friend's home and start cooking your own meal. There you work to feed and live.

Only sensible Nigerians survive abroad and that is because they always remember where they came from and what their end-game is all about. Some go there and loathe doing jobs that pay. They keep looking for jobs that they believe they're worth not knowing that such jobs are mostly the preserve of the locals.

Then you have those who in their first year, want to start living like Jay Z, Beyonce or the Kardashians those are the ones that end up begging for food stamps

well let me put some marker on waht U just said.
How do Nigerians live and dont pay bills? ie Electricity.
i dont think u can just go to your friend's house and start cooking in Nigeria 2017, life had moved on

twinskenny:
good day good people

i notice that my lexus 300 keep vibrating when i reach speed of 60kmph.. mechs has changed the tie rod (hope i got that right) but still have the issue.. some bushing were also changed

That Mech don make u waste money cos a bad tie rod will vibrate at evry speed,
Do this jack the front of ur car up one side at a time,hold ur it at the 12 and 6 o'clock see if there is play ,also do same for the 3 and 9 o'clock see if there is play.
main-while those the vibration stp after 60km?

NO NO NO NO

Gridlock:
See the tyre after 15 minutes ...

Bro if I was you, I will have the tyre out and do the whole rim, waht do you recon?

expensiveguyman:
Some black ppl wicked oh! he use dis old woman with all d promise of love just to achieve his green card dream.
And now dat d goal has been achieved he heartlessly dump her to her faith.

Its UK ,no greencard here.

timesup234:
The funniest and most expensive joke I have heard from Nigerians doing menial jobs in the US. and earning between $1,500- $2,000, is claiming that they are richer than bank managers in Nigeria. I guess they make their money in America while spending it in Nigeria. This stupid joke need to stop. A Nigerian doing menial job in the US. at best can be compare to someone receiving 80,000 Monthly in Nigeria in purchasing power. A Nigerian doing odd jobs for 10 yrs will still be paying rent while a 10 yrs bank manager would have long built two to three houses with a lucrative investment. Nigerians in America need to stop converting currencies because it is clearly stated that if you earn $12,000 annually in America you are living in poverty

kai, See wetin VISA refusal turn people to.take heart, dem go soon re-open Visa lottery for Nigerians, try again ndoooooo