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BornToSucced:
Hello Seniors in the house, I greet you all.

I am coming to Vancouver in March 2025 for my graduate program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), and I would like your recommendations regarding accommodation.

Please any idea?

Many thanks.

Please start searching on Facebook marketplace. Change your location to metro Vancouver area in BC and join WhatsApp groups from your school or departments

Well said

slydog:
Lol, if you came in via express entry like I did, you are certainly not trying to escape poverty or joblessness or hunger. Yenyenyen lol.

Just maybe its those who came in escaping poverty that actually hustle to make something for themselves while those who came in with no desperation or fighting spirit are waiting for jobs to call them. Like I said, just maybe, not 100% correct.

There are issues with the immigration system, YES, but no doubt people are thriving.

Computer scientist you say, how about Doctors/medical consultants with years of experience driving Uber or working in Shelter? You read book reach these ones?

Like I mentioned, the mindset matters, that's why for express entry they seek out highly educated people with years of experience on their job and in being flexible, not to whine continuously but to intelligently crave a niche for themselves and survive. If the jobs you are searching for is not coming you pivot intelligently, you do survival jobs to "survive" to keep the light on while u keep working towards where you want to be. It may take months or years, but you keep pushing, never giving up.

It's a Nigerian doctor that put down payment for a 41 unit multifamily house last month valued at $6m in Edmonton, but his first two years here he was working Shelter interacting with homeless, drug addicts and flying back to Nigeria to maintain his licence at the same time, he did not whine about. It's an IT clouds guy that I know bought 6 single family houses this year. He was originally a banker in Nigeria but has successfully pivoted his life. Dude dey ride Porcshe EV 2024. You think say he no struggle and hustle before he pivoted and wrote exams to be where he is in his $1m house in Keswick Edmonton.

Let's keep whinning na.

I will be three years here next year, yes I did not do survival jobs before I got my first job in banking, but I realized banking wasn't for me and I pushed further to get an almost 6figure role in govt and also picked up a survival job making extra cash even with an almost 6 figure job, why? I had a plan to buy my second house and plan achieved, and I left the survival job.

You want a table laid before you like a king in Canada? Join politics and keep advocate for change like others are. Next week, I'm meeting with the first Black Speaker of the House, Hon. Fergus.

Baba, meet people, connect, network, hustle, no whinning.

There are issues with the immigration, YES.
There are issues in Nigeria that made u leave your lofty position to move to Canada? Yes.

Choose your issues and work it out. Issues dey everywhere, lol.

JIREN01:
Can anyone recommend stores where affordable furniture can be obtained? Most apartments in Canada come unfurnished, and furnishing is so so expensive. Any tips will be appreciated please

in which province are you?

Harmony63:
Last year I worked as a healthcare assistant and also a web writer for a media house. I handled both because the content can be scheduled. Both are full time job. While the web writing paid into my account, the healthcare paid me in cash.

So I wanted to claim the two jobs but it seems I can't.

if I can't then I can just leave the web writing experience

same thing I thought. Just claim relevant experience and others should go to personal history

How now? You want to use 2FA for IRCC. I suggest you claim one of the experiences.

Harmony63:
Someone doing two full time job ( one is remote and flexible) can they person claim two years experiences from the two jobs ?

One tunnel in Vancouver. Can’t remember the name

You just earned a follow. I gbadun intelligent people. We can connect if you don’t mind cos I just pm’ed you

NuCypher:
Good discussion! Let me give my own opinion. Warning: this is a long one! Sorry

I think many people coming to Canada come with too many expectations. These expectations often start with that well-known worry inherent in the constant “why is VFS delaying my passports?”, “who can I send a message to”, “I just messaged the MP of my district”, bla bla bla. THat offs me on a steady. You are sending mail to VFS to hurry along with your passport that will certainly come if you don’t lift a finger, yet you are not even researching the other things you need to do to SURVIVE in canada. You are not researching the techniques with which to get a job. You are not investigating LinkedIn and looking into how to build a good profile. You are basically instead worrying day and night about VFS sending a passport that will certainly come to you. I’m digressing sha, but I just responded to one of them today, so it’s sort of fresh in my head. Not knowing it is a problem is a big thing.

But that’s besides the point. For me, I can easily imagine anyone regretting their coming to Canada. It’s very easy to regret it. You get here full of so many expectations. The country is after all just north of America. It’s basically America’s 51st state, lmao. So, opportunities should abound, right? Well, wrong! There is nowhere in the world where opportunities are handed out like a chicken on a plate. Not even in the Nigeria you were coming from. Many a times, we have to work for our opportunities everywhere we find ourselves. In any case, it’s easy to regret. You are working odd jobs. You are paying the type of rent you have never paid in your life. Car insurance for a year is basically the same amount of money you will pay for a year’s rent in Lekki. No be juju be that? Lmao! One other thing some of those youtubers mention (I’ll come to them in a minute), is that they have to pay for daycare, or that there’s nobody to help them with their children, or that they are afraid of what is being taught in the schools, so they must send their wards to catholic schools. All well and good. Another complaint is loneliness, how it’s very difficult to find someone to marry, said in the breadth as if it’s any easier in Lagos (Nearly all the men in Lagos are mad! –now, that’s a good reference book).

In any case, it’s easy for anyone to regret their Canada move. Coming in with so many expectations and finding Canada trash these expectations one after the other, they become disillusioned and start to wallow in regret.

But not everyone does. I know because I have a couple of friends who will tell you immediately that Canada has done for them what Nigeria could never have done. One of my friends I was talking to the other day, who was working pretty much an executive assistant job in Deloitte in Nigeria, now finds herself in a position here in Canada that she could never have imagined being in Nigeria. In fact, she actually almost lost her life, but thanks to the same Canada health system that YouTubers love to vilify, she is well and alive today. And not just that, she and her husband have a much better marriage than they did in Nigeria, they recently bought a house that has risen tremendously in value, and are doing extremely well for themselves, all from working what are regular jobs in Canada, not tech jobs, not nursing jobs, etc. Standard, regular jobs. They boast of a net worth they will never have approached in at least 10 years of working in Nigeria.

That aside, personal stories aside. living in a different country and expecting things to obtain like they do in your home country is really just plain stupid. There’s no loneliness in Canada; there’s just a Canada way of life. There’s a way people (and Canadians generally) live in this country that appears to suggest or cause loneliness, but it’s the way of life. People are mostly indoors in winter time, because it’s cold outside. Most get-togethers happen among friends, not strangers. Sports is a very good way of passing time in this country and that cuts across. Football (or what is called soccer) is not a popular sport here. Put simply, there’s a way of life. If you come from Nigeria and you can’t find people to play football with you, it’s not because they are boring. Dude, wake up! Most people just don’t play football here. Have you tried hockey!? In Nigeria, it’s not out of place to just walk into a random party on the street and suddenly get accepted by those celebrating. You could even be served food. In Yoruba parlance, they call it “mogbo moya”. You can’t do that here. It’s the culture. Celebrations happen mostly among friends known very well to each other. I read something the other day when someone said “Christmas was so boring in Canada.” No dude, CHristmas is not boring in Canada. They just don’t celebrate Christmas here like they do in Nigeria. CHristmas is mostly sitting at a table with family, having a good discussion and a drink. Maybe find or get into a friend group where you could also do the same? And there are places you can find friend groups. Start with a church, if you are lost. If you are not a church person, but you are still “lonely”, again, start with a church. They’ll accept you. Or look for friend groups on whatsapp, telegram channels, etc. There’s always one or two things going on. What you shouldn’t expect is that someone will literally come and drag you from inside your apartment to come hang out with them. Even that doesn’t happen in Lagos. But people often get so carried away with their loneliness, that they think everything else should start with them.

And on these YouTubers who are quick to post the “top 10 reasons why people are leaving Canada”, maybe we need to start first with why they themselves haven’t left? That’s possibly a sensitive trigger question for them. I’m sure they are having it so good with their fast uploads/download speeds, their restaurant outings, their “follow me grocery shopping” and nobody is snatching their phones, or their “I went on a Jamaican vacation” to be too bothered about leaving Canada. The life they portray in their videos may in fact be literally impossible if they were not in Canada. That can only say one thing, and that is that they do these videos just for the clicks and the views. Nothing else.
People may in fact be leaving Canada. That’s not unusual. It’s not automatic that everyone will have success in Canada. That’s not written in stone anywhere. To succeed in life, we have to apply ourselves in different ways. But to think Canada doesn’t make the path easy is to tell a lie. I know a few people who have pivoted into tech in Canada from taking a few courses online and truly applying themselves. Admittedly, this happens in Nigeria too, just as it does in Canada. But if you don’t want it badly, why should you expect to get it? And of course, the pay can never be commensurate.

One of the YouTubers I was listening to the other day also mentioned something about how daycare is expensive for them. I'm actually quite surprised she didn't expect this before coming to Canada. It simply means she didn't do her research well. If she did, she'd have planned better for this. Maybe prioritize only WFH jobs? Maybe move without the kids for starters? Whatever is possible, good research will most certainly tell her what to do. What's plain dumb is coming on YouTube to lament about it, as if it was not expected. There's a reason most Canadians are content with just having one or two kids and no more. This is something they have an intimate understanding of while growing up. Most of them have even ruled out kids completely, which is not an entirely bad move for someone who wants to stay financially independent. Again, it's the way of life. And that's why you will hardly ever see a Canadian go on YouTube to complain about expensive daycare. The Nigerian, on the other hand, comes into the country expecting things to be exactly like they left it in Nigeria. Sorry, babe, that's not how life works. You needed to understand this well before making your Canada move. If you did, you will plan much better for it.

It’s not a surprise that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. That saying is truer than ever about those who wallow on their couch in Canada thinking about what fancy life they had in Nigeria and why they can’t have the same in Canada. They grovel in their previous success and cannot replicate it. You start to wonder if they really truly succeeded in Nigeria or if it was just all luck. Was passing that exam in Nigeria a fluke for them? If it wasn’t, why are they struggling with passing their exams here? Did they truly understand the subject? Did they have the passion for what they did in Nigeria? One of the tales I told up there about the couple who succeeded in Canada actually has a side to it that’s not that impressive. The wife was a practicing doctor in Nigeria who couldn’t scale the hurdle of practicing in Canada. Talking to her, you could perceive she wasn’t even passionate about being a doctor at all. Little wonder she couldn’t truly apply herself in Canada to scale that well-known, difficult hurdle. She ended up with a government job that she still enjoys now anyways. But at least, she’s not complaining like the many others.

There are different sides to Canada, let’s be real. There’s the good and the bad. But one thing I can tell you for real is that opportunities abound, but only if you set your mind to earning those opportunities. That much is true.

I saw your post on Nigerians immigrants in Canada and I am left with no choice than to send you a pm and follow you.

Hopefully I’d get a response. I’m in BC

khalazi:
Windsor-Detroit Border

my friend's bro lives in Windsor

DereI:
My company is currently hiring for systems admin/ cloud administrator

I'm in your DM

Hi guys, kindly share with remote opportunities in Canada/US within the IT field - DevOps, System Admin, IT analyst/specialist, Network Admin, Web management, and Application support/analyst. Thank you

Please did you apply on their behalf or did you set the application like they are applying themselves? I am looking to apply for my mom & MIL

seunpinky:
This is not true, I applied for my parents in sept and up till now no visa. They had US, UK and shenghen visa.

Guess what, I also applied for my Mother in law on the same date in sept, fresh passport without any travel history and she already got her PPR in December.

Just trying to tell you that there’s no hard and fast rule with IRCC, no two applications are treated the same.

easzyone:
Hi you suddenly stopped responding, have you gotten an offer already ?

what did you wear today? I was there in blue suit and white shirt

easzyone:
Hi you suddenly stopped responding, have you gotten an offer already ?

tuesday as well. Sorry. I’ve been busy. You can send me a pm so we link up.

Let me know if you find something positive. Thanks. Are you on for Monday or Tuesday?

easzyone:
Good day all, I know this is coming years late, please what kind of questions were you asked during your interview. Any feedback will be appreciated. Thank You

nekkyblues:
Hi guys, please I need help ASAP.

I’m trying to register on ICES, at the payment page I’m seeing that I am to pay a total of 295 CAD instead of 275 CAD.

Please I need help because I don’t have the extra money to pay.

remove additional copy.

Dealkid:
Ok.

sent you a pm bro. Kindly respond. Thanks in anticipation.

Congratulations first of all.
Secondly, please I would like to contact you about the ready to travel email format and the Avo email contact. Thanks

Dealkid:
PPRRRRRRRRR
FINALLYYYYYYY.

Praise God for making this possible. It's been 12months and a week.

ITA- Sept, 2019
AOR - Oct, 2019
Visa office - AVO
First ghost update - May,2020
Second ghost update - Oct,2020
PPR - 22nd Oct, 2020


I'm a Canadian guys..... YIPPEEEEE.

I am just seeing this. and you can send me a pm just so i can send you one of their staff's number

mtngloetiartel:
Pls help me. I had done the registration online. The only document sent to me was like a receipt of my payment. Since then, I had not heard anything else from them. The date I choosed is 25th of this month. Am worried if there is anything else I need to do, take along or whatever before, and on that day. Please share me some enlightenment. Thanks so much

molybdenum0012:
And they asked me to pay 60k, these officials sha..

Abeg how do we bypass these people. The fees too outrageous

I suggest you go online. Special marriage is 35k. Just google Federal Marriage Registry

Tosaned:
Gather around my people.... It's COPR!!!!!!!

IELTS
Eh, yours truly was principal applicant. First result was village people things LRSW was 8,8,8,6 in May. EOR with BC, writing was upgraded to 7 after 2-3weeks. Registered for another IELTS before the result of the first EOR was due. Second IELTS was 9, 9, 8, 6.5. with BC in June. Another EOR upgraded my writing to 7. Hubby gave me max points for IELTS and degree. For speaking, I practiced questions from Liz ielts, writing was Jay the first time, LIZ paid classes the second time. Reading, didn't practice at all. Listening, IELTS page on YouTube and minieilts.com

I didn't wait for the 2nd EOR as I wanted to enter the pool before the 2nd July 2018 draw so used the first IELTS result. Entered the pool July 23rd and got ITA July 24th.

Congratulations on your PPR!!! Did you write your IELTS with BC or MOD? Also, did you remark writing and speaking or only writing? Thanks

Hi guys, I need all the motivation I can get.

I wrote BC IELTS first time on 13th of October, 2018. I had LWRS -7.5, 6,6, 7

I braced myself up and rewrote on 1st of December, 2018, LWRS - 8.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8

I applied for remark (writing) on 20th of December, 2018. I went to pick my EOR yesterday and it came back unchanged. Why is BC like this? I only needed 0.5

Sorry to bore you guys. Congratulations to those who just got PPR.

http://records.unilag.edu.ng

princesschuks:
Please na beg I dey beg.
Anyone with a sure link for unilag transcript? (Msc)

Please can you explain the bold part? I would like to understand.

Chicagomum:
Just submitted my EOR at BC, the receptionist told me that it has already been remarked cos my band score difference is more than 2. She said the probability of my score increasing is very slim���.

What was your band score difference mine is 2.5.

Nice one man

peterpeteru:
Hi Fabiomatic. Just saw your quote.
Thank God we both made it. I'm Proxy.

Kindly do me a favour by modifying ur quote and removing my mail address.
Thanks.

I would like to learn from you

Femiposh360:
Hello everyone! I am an Extremely silent reader and I mist say from reading from the beginning of Part 1 through 3or 4, I was able to get my creds evaluated, studied and passed my IELTS in my first sitting , created EE profile and submitted application in July. My score was 437 and so, I'm one of those of us praying and waiting for draw scores to drop to 430s.
I would like to ask a couple of questions though:
1. Will evaluating a second Master's degree and updating on my profile increase my scores?
2. My IELTS scores were L8.5,R8.5, W8 and S8 and my Band score is 8.5. However, I've been feeling my overall band score should be higher, shouldn't it? I guess if it's higher I could get more points too, right?

Please all the gurus in the house ( I know say una plenty) abeg help me. Thanks!

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autotrader2:
What is the model and year of your car?

Best you call or text us on 09086679585

hello good evening, I would like to buy six ignition coils, cos my car na V6. how much will you give me?

Do not overwork your vehicle all in the name of fuel economy. Mowe to Ibafo to and fro is not a short trip even without traffic. I believe that is fair enough. Then it still took you back to Ketu.. C'mon man... Enjoy your ride with fantastic fuel economy.

I bought for 20k at ojuelegba. Everlast battery, made in Korea