Wrong. Most prople do so simply because that's all they've known since birth. Even if the atheist next door is very successful they'll still be the same!
adekolaelect: then you have to grow with your village but if you failed to do so then you migrated to other place that can support your financial capability .
tabaralph: And do you know that 30-40% of the so called masses living in Lagos have no business being there in the first place,, they prefer to be subjected to abject poverty and hunger than go back to their villages and farm ,when you farm hunger is out of your life and you will even earn modest income by selling your excess farm produce.
And do you know that many people don't have any "village" to go back to? That all they have is Lagos, born and bred?
adekolaelect: Lagos state is not means for the poor . If you can't afford Lagos cost of life then move back to your villages you came from. Lagos state is developed and Orbanised than to be a dumping site of boys and Girls with polythene Bags from poor villages as usual.
How about if Lagos is your "village" - the only home you ever knew?
Marossherbals: What you see becomes your reality. If you believe your environment is backwards, it's becomes backwards TO YOU.
All I know is that tiny England used physical (a gun - a dane gun at that) to colonize two dozen countries focused on spiritual, including giants India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia etc, all at the same time!
Shawarmagirl: Even with his unemployment status in Canada, I will still advise him never to relocate back to Nigeria. Hence, we'll hear he has committed suicide. Canada is still far more better than Nigeria current situation. With time he will be employed.
Thing is, someone actually in Canada will NEVER write this!
NwaliE01: Bros, you didn't make a mistake in anyway. You can make the N45M within few weeks when things stablize for you. This is just a phase and it will eventually pass away. I was there 3 years ago and today, I am happy that I made the tough decision of leaving my multinational job to abroad. Today, I am gainfully employed by a bigger multinational company with a perk benefit of a 2025 brand new official car.
Your story will soon change.
Ok, N45m is 40K CAD. Average monthly salary in Canada is 5K CAD. Sooo, how do you make 40K CAD "within a few weeks when things stabilize"?? Then "2025 brand new official car", My insight: my friend you are in Nigeria, NOT in Canada!
SocialJustice: Obviously you were also lazy in Nigeria.
Just as you have Chinese and Indian labor exploiters over here, you also have people like that over there, except over there everybody makes sure you EARN the money they're paying you
Softmirror: I have never come across any one complaining of hunger online and have accepted to be hungry when asked if they are hungry. I wonder why it is always so.
How about all these people below - just right here on Nairaland o?
Kushites: No it's not. Where have you ever posted anything about the govt? I just checked your profile and it's just christian Jesus stuff that I see there. We're not in church oga.
Kushites: No, because they are waiting for you to go into agriculture like your mates, and grow more food, so it can be cheaper.
I didn't say me. I have too much food - I have the opposite problem, trying to lose weight. I said the masses. People in Lagos should go into Farming? Where? How?
jibsiddy456: My opinion here isn't about traveling. But seeing a parent who sacrificed to this extent touched me. I really appreciate his dad. Not all parent can even take half of such risk
But his dad was dead, at least in first half of the story. In the second half of the story his father is alive and well and waiting for OP to buy him a better house!
79733139: Another fake "anti-japa" cock and bull story. I relocated to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada via Express Entry on 1st July 2025 (last month) and everything that I spent is wayyyyy less than N45 million. Food is not an issue because I go to food bank, transportation is about to be covered because I will soon be getting a reduced bus pass (more than 60% discount on monthly bus fare), I am still job hunting but my landlord has started giving me jobs to do around the house and paying.... if you are thinking of immigrating, IGNORE made-up tales like these....
But you've only been there a month. People who've been there several years will have better perspective
MT: Apologies for thinking you were smart and dignifying you with a response.
I said not everyone could AFFORD three square meals in the United States, you were ranting.
So if the guy you referenced in your scenario could AFFORD a meal, why would he needs social services help.
You ended up validating the fact that not everyone could AFFORD a meal in the US like I previously schooled you.
I would ignore you henceforth.
See him trying to be smart.😆 My friend here's the video you posted below, which I said was propaganda and you shouted that it wasn't and went off on me for not living in US. Do you now agree that it is propaganda? THAT US CAN MORE THAN AFFORD TO FEED IT'S CITIZENS? Do you now agree??
MT: Stop arguing! You called it a “propaganda” yet you couldn’t provide a single resource to make disprove it.
Nigerians and I-must-be-right mentality.
For a mere fact that food is wasted doesn’t mean it goes round.
Think smart.
Lot of politicians squander money in Nigeria, does it mean everyone is a millionaire in Nigeria.
I’m living here. You are not. Stop arguing blindly.
I will use the same ChatGPT that you attached to prove you wrong.
You are arguing blindly. Let's take a totally penniless person in US. He lives in a shelter where he's given 3 meals a day. In addition, there are several soup kitchens around where he can get free cooked meals, there are also several food pantries around for free food. In addition he gets substantial monthly free money for food. Please tell us: HOW ON EARTH WILL THIS PERSON BE HUNGRY??!!
See him, posting YouTube propaganda by organizations who benefit from donations and whose jobs are distributions of free foods. Believe me, it is really HARD to legitimately go hungry in US. See below B
SocialJustice: The guy in this story is not serious. He can feed and pay rent but despises the jobs that provide because it is not office job.
DeZoro: Lazy man, you want to work a white collar job in a country that even try to receive you as what? Go an work in a factory my friend and negotiate to buy that house again. You came to Canada and want to live as if you are in Nigeria. Lazy thing...
You guys just say go and work factory, etc. There are jobs that will just destroy your spirit with its monotony or hardness, constantly watching the clock for.time the torture to end. You'd rather be broke