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You can do all of this and scrape a living...OR you could spend some months to learn an IT skill that is in-demand and then you could easily find a remote job for a Western company that paid a western salary, without even needing to move to another nation.

Examples? Coding languages (C++, etc), SAP (pick your poison among the various modules), etc.

ilduce31:
At least, you be Oyunbo with cute hair glowing skin. It's not like our hair that is like Sampaper.

Thanks, but honestly one shouldn't put himself down so much man.

Just to add to my answer, to give an example - let's say you earn 30 000 euro/year (13 986 389.40 naira). That's 2500 euro/month. Great, except that taxes will take at least 750 out of that, rent/mortgage will eat at least another 800 (I have seen rents up to 1400 euro/month in the big cities), add on top of that food, fuel for the car (forget about public transports outside of major cities), electricity/heating (which is quite costly, especially now due to the row with Russia) etc, and you see how many people simply can't really cope with the absurd cost of living (and so either find roommates or go live with their gf/wife outside of the city, which sadly adds commute and thus reduces the time one can spend with his family)

ilduce31:
Our talk never finish. What is it like in your country? What do you think of Nigerians. How did you come across Nairaland?

Hey. To put it simply, Italy is a very rich country on the surface, but as soon as you look at the wealth distribution you notice that there is a huge difference between "poor", "middle class" and "rich". Unless you fall in the last 2, you're kind of screwed - high taxes, little welfare, a lot of parasitism...you name it.

Add on top of that the fact that there is a huge difference in how much different jobs pay, to the tune of some jobs paying on average 70k Euro (give or take 32 629 553.77 naira - converted using google so maybe it's inaccurate) or more, while others pay only 20k (9 322 729 naira).

Note that there is some difference in cost of living between regions, but overall the cost of living is very high, especially in the North (where essentially all good-paying jobs are), so you can understand how a lot of young workers are not very well-off.

About Nigerians - I met a few and we became friends a few years ago, during university. Decent people, but with a population of over 206 millions, there are surely some rotten eggs as well - like we say, there is bound to be 1 rotten apple together with 9 good ones out of every 10.

About Nairaland - I found it in 2016 by chance. The website for some reason does not let me reset my password for the old account, so I simply made a new one (and I did not use my old one a lot - I mainly read, rather than write).

I lost my old job, found a new one. Had to deal with the retarded Italian government that doesn't give a damn about helping you unless you are already rich. Hope next year goes better.

Gaggii:
I must confess, the only challenge in my marriage is sex, I was not a masturbator as a bachelor because I have girls around me, if one no come another go show, but as a married man have turned a chronic masturbator because my wife is always complaining that she is tired.

I would gotten a side chick, but I had a second thought because the consequence will affect my home financially.

Am just so fed up.

If you are married and in same shoe, how have you being coping

Tell her to put out or to get out. A marriage works if both partners do their job - if you are the one that works hard to sustain your entire family, you are entitled to enjoy sex. On the other hand if you don't do your part you can't really complain she doesn't do hers..

Cheers

Next 5-10 years top. Want to get a better job before

Just my opinion as European (so forgive me if I apply what worked for us in the West to your context) - all European countries fall somewhere between extreme decentralization and extreme centralization. You guys went from weak federation to the opposite end - extreme centralization - in less than a century, then tried to go back to the middle-of-the-road.

Both extremes can work - France has always been an extremely centralized nation, whereas Germany has always been quite decentralized, same as Spain. The closest nation to your system would be my homeland, Italy - the central gov maintains overall control, but the administration itself is decentralized.

Let's take a practical example - let's say you want to retire and need to send a form to be processed. The local unit will process your form and handle your case, while the central unit in the capital will dictate large scale policy changes.

Nigeria is a huge country in terms of population and territory - go full-on decentralization, you will devolve into parochialism and (let's be honest here) tribalism. Go full-on with centralization...you know better than a foreigner how that went.

Tl;dr - you guys aren't stupid, so why re-invent the wheel when you can take example from others' past mistakes? Nigeria can have a bright future, you just need to change what hasn't worked so far.

ilduce31:
I nid money joor all this your capping capping U no understand, I no hear english.

Updated.

This niggar is not in Nigeria o. oya oya oya make I drop aza?

nah just thought you were Italian as well gives your username is in Italian.

HardMirror:
It seems Nigerian girls are indeed created, designed, configured, trained, programmed, predetermined, orientated,... to collect collect and collect.

I started dating this girl and by our standards this girl is as good as they come. She is truly a good girl with good character. I cant be dashing her money, so I asked her to come and work for me. Already had 4 employees but her work experience would be valuable to us and honestly she has been an asset and worth the money i am paying her. But what surprises me is how she still manages to get me to buy food, airtime for her everyday ....

Naija girls.. una matter no be here

Try to not spend as much money on her maybe? if you get someone used to a certain lifestyle, it's quite hard to change it later on...

ilduce31:
oga miror when hard you be senior man na. Show your boy love nah.

"ilduce" - and here I thought almost no other Westerner knew of/used this website - a nice surprise

I'd focus more on the Russian economy...it was almost at 2,3 trillion $ in 2013 before the West slapped them with quite limited sanctions (and they were limited, don't believe the propaganda) - it fell to 1,27 trillion $ in 2016, and even after the huge oil boom in the past few years, it's still at 1,48 trillion $.

Now let me ask you - how screwed will Putin and the Russian people be when the West slaps on them truly painful sanctions? A strongman with no options to remain in power will cause a war to gather support (e.g. invasion of Georgia in 2008, Crime in 2014), but then...what? Ukraine is not THAT weak, militarily speaking, and the Russian economy could very well implode if the West wants it to (of course the West will suffer as well, since they buy gas from Russia etc, but Russia will suffer x10 times more).

Tl;dr - Russia has everything to lose from going to war, but Putin might have no other way to gather support for his dictatorship