SARSCoV2:



If you view America from the South Chicago side, everything there is true.

It’s cold out there.

MadamVanessa:




Mtcheeewww...tell her now to come back to Nigeria, and see her shakes her head in refusal immediately.

She should stop talking nonsense and complaining. If she finds life there so unbearable, she should relocate back to her paradise Nigeria.

A lot of people would do everything to be in her position. It's better to suffer in a country you're not a citizen than to suffer in a country you're a bonafide citizen, which many Nigerians are currently experiencing in this shithole.


I wish Americans were like me, they will immediately deport her useless ass back to her Eldorado Nigeria. You can't come and benefit so much in my country then still had the guts to write rubbish about the country you benefitted so much from. ingrate.

pansophist:
If you have a choice between the US and any other developed country, then don't go to the US. It's a shit hole country in the league of developed societies. But if your alternative to Nigeria is the US only, then go to the US.

I can understand why people in Nigeria will say you should come back if you don't like it, well, the US is still better than Nigeria, but it still didn't change the fact that it's a very damaged society. If you think those zombies dancing with Michael Jackson in his music titled ''thriller'' are fiction, then you probably haven't been to the US.

A place where drug addicts, homeless folks, and extraordinarily fat mofo are walking and shitting on the streets with tents that stretch for miles upon eyes than the eyes can see. A country that is so wealthy than the whole twenty-seven EU countries combined, also have less than half EU's population, but the kind of poverty, citizens' debt, and infrastructural decay you see in the US makes you angry, asking yourself, what the hell I'm I doing here?

You will see so many HOT (homeless, obese, toothless) people, some so fat on riding on a scooter because they can walk, but munching a huge bucket of KFC chicken with a huge bottle of soda. The US government spends close to a trillion USD in war yearly, money it could have used to benefit the life of the average Americans. If you must go to North America, better go to Canada, or better still, go to Europe. Europe is far better.

aragonchuks:
Bros relax talking down on naija won’t benefit you in any way , no be you be first to go America and you won’t be the last , the little girl is just telling her story okay .. tell your own story without insults

MadamVanessa:




Mtcheeewww...tell her now to come back to Nigeria, and see her shakes her head in refusal immediately.

She should stop talking nonsense and complaining. If she finds life there so unbearable, she should relocate back to her paradise Nigeria.

A lot of people would do everything to be in her position. It's better to suffer in a country you're not a citizen than to suffer in a country you're a bonafide citizen, which many Nigerians are currently experiencing in this shithole.


I wish Americans were like me, they will immediately deport her useless ass back to her Eldorado Nigeria. You can't come and benefit so much in my country then still had the guts to write rubbish about the country you benefitted so much from. ingrate.

ameh99:
The lady is only saying things the way they are..

And it's just a simple fact..

These are for some of you that thinks that America is heaven on earth...

Things are not easy anywhere

delzbaba:
you comot for oyo come go settle for chicago south side? you no see better place like pensylvania or maryland go? dem never shoot ur yansh.

oglalasioux:


You've said it all. They keep deceiving other people but ask them to choose Nigeria and see their reaction.

BigIyanga:

Not necessarily true..Good neighborhoods like Hyde Park- University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Bronzeville, etal are good.
From her story, it looks like they started as illegal immigrants before receiving assylum status..
Life as illegal immigrant is tough everywhere.. but Chicago is a sanctuary city.. cops dont bother about ur immigration status. Also, IL gives illegal immigrants drivers licensee so long as you show proof of living in the state for 6months
At home depot on 87th and Dan Ryan.. Mexican day laborers charge minimum of $200\day for labour.
Also Chicago has the most connected public transport system in the US.. after NYC. You can travel the whole city with $7/day.
Maybe they were hoping for a life full of roses as Illegal... not happening in the US.

Artiiclebeast:


Foolish somebody...

Evil and demonic selfish bastard.

Who says there are no slums in the U.S. make thunder fire you there.

Useless people who'd get up there and hate to share information or encourage others to climb to the top.

What is your grouse with me now, tell me, why are you mad at me? For sharing this information that anyone can make it in the U.S and not just you?

Ogun kill you there...wizard enemy of progress.

BigIyanga:

Not necessarily true..Good neighborhoods like Hyde Park- University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Bronzeville, etal are good.
From her story, it looks like they started as illegal immigrants before receiving assylum status..
Life as illegal immigrant is tough everywhere.. but Chicago is a sanctuary city.. cops dont bother about ur immigration status. Also, IL gives illegal immigrants drivers licensee so long as you show proof of living in the state for 6months
At home depot on 87th and Dan Ryan.. Mexican day laborers charge minimum of $200\day for labour.
Also Chicago has the most connected public transport system in the US.. after NYC. You can travel the whole city with $7/day.
Maybe they were hoping for a life full of roses as Illegal... not happening in the US.

Artiiclebeast:


Guy, no listen to the yeye naysayers jare.

Na person wey love you and get good heart go tell you the truth.

If you get the energy and time and you want work, oga, you go earn $10k per month no be go come.

I say it as it is.

Why discourage people?

Dem get luck say I no quick know say na so America sweet...

I for no allow my mama enter labour for Nigeria sef.

nabeelbabs:
Replies on this page are saddening and funny as well

I just shake my head cus i know shes telling nothing but the truth.

Alot of people think its all rainbows outside Nigeria, they think immediately you "Japa" you make it. This is a common stupid silly throught from people who never traveled abroad.

Yes of course there are opportunities out their but is not always. Dont be surprised you will be a victim of racial profiling and discrimination, check the rates of unemployment of African American in the us you'll be shocked. Even if you lucky to get a job, taxes, rent, bills will leave you drained. Only then you will realize working there is slavery.

Except if your parents are wealthy, influential, have good connects OR God decides its your destiny to make it outside, But for a poor or local man to "japa" , you will live abroad for 50 years, come back with nothing to show.

Its what we say in hausa "ka sake reshe ka kamo ganye"

Artiiclebeast:
Abeg make una no listen to all these nonsense oh..

America na God's own country truly truly if you get the right info and know your way.

If na only the gun violence, I go manage am like that dey careful where I dey enter and the kind neighbourhood wey I go stay.

I start one thread for my profile like that to talk about this same issue but because the mods dem too follow for the people wey dey try preach the abroad life no easy dem abandon am. Dem no want competition for the good life...

https://www.nairaland.com/7145274/re-abroad-life-not-easy

Abeg, anybody wey get legit way to jakpa come America, you better take am oh...

Sweet and blessed country.

I dey come to write more..make I drive reach work first.

Modified:

You see all these spoilt, lazy, and rotten brats, if you listen to them mislead you or successfully make you keep away from competing with them out of wickedness and envy, na you sabi.

This kid could be a privileged rotten kid back home in Nigeria who probably had a whole room to herself with a driver to chauffeur her back and fro wherever she goes without much of an understanding to the fact that "nyansh dey pepper egg wey dey lay egg wey she dey chop".

Her parents obviously needed more in life and thus migrated making this silly kid see herself as living below her standard because of sharing a house and bathroom. She's clearly not happy because she could barely find any poor man pikin to oppress out there.

The idiot even went on to say their condition improved when their asylum was approved. They should have sought the asylum in Nigeria na..

Talking about her parents doing long hours of work. It's evil and ungrateful to God and nature to make such complaints. Now it isn't the lack of jobs oh but the long hours of job. The question people of sound mind should ask are:

* What is the hourly wage
*Do you get owed or short paid for these jobs?
* Are these jobs back-breaking or hard jobs?
* What are the general working conditions of these jobs?

Only wicked and selfish people will tell you America is bad, unsafe, and hard to survive.

Very wicked and mean people.

Even if you find a job with an agency paying $10-12 per hour, you have enough hours to work if you want and can do the job to take in as much as $4k per month.

Now, you can imagine how much a direct staff at the same job who knows what brought him to the US will take home.

Na so all of them dey collect and drive big big new cars because work hours dey to dey pay monthly na all these enjoyment dem no want make people come enjoy with them.

My dear people, there is so much work and less hands such that na me dey reject hours because I need to rest but when I dey my bed I no dey fit rest because my mind go dey calculate how much I dey miss because I want siddon for my bed.

One thing though, it depends on the people you met when you got in and the information you had before making the moves.

One can successfully live and work in the US for 100 years and more as an alien without the right documents so long as you stay away from trouble and keep to the rules.

The system is aware of this fact that loads and loads of illegals abound in the country and of course, are doing the jobs their people won't do which are jobs in very critical sectors and the authorities turn the other way so long as the jobs get done in a timely manner and the economy/system keeps spinning.

In my 1 month that I've been here, Na God bless America I dey take sing every morning...

God bless my destiny...

God bless God too...

Na to work move all my family if possible, my entire clan comot from that dustbin called country.

When I step out from airport, na cry I cry go reach where I dey go inside train when my eye see wetin country and living suppose look like.

May all Nigerian evil leaders both past, present, future, and the ones in the grave continue to rot in hell....

Demons...

I pray for every Nigerian to experience life outside of Nigeria, particularly to the first world countries to understand the difference between life and living.

lionlee216:
I'm from ibadan, Oyo state and I live on the South side of Chicago too and doing well for myself by God's Grace . so many Nigerians that live here too. I have only in my 5 years durjng my stay here heard gunshot one time.

I live in a decent neighborhood on the Southside. All other Nigerians I know live in decent neighborhood. So I don't get all the stories flying arround.

I laughed when people say Chicago is very dangerous and I see someone recommending Baltimore MD.

Believe all what media says at your own peril

Shalom!

ameh99:


I think you are the only one that has really break this whole story down for common Nigerians to understand...

Those of them thinking "Any way, na way"
Does not know the implications of being an illegal migrant

salbis:
All dis people sef. Nigeria get vast land that can accommodate all of us, please come back home.

BigIyanga:

Not necessarily true..Good neighborhoods like Hyde Park- University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Bronzeville, etal are good.
From her story, it looks like they started as illegal immigrants before receiving assylum status..
Life as illegal immigrant is tough everywhere.. but Chicago is a sanctuary city.. cops dont bother about ur immigration status. Also, IL gives illegal immigrants drivers licensee so long as you show proof of living in the state for 6months
At home depot on 87th and Dan Ryan.. Hispanic day laborers charge minimum of $200\day for the shortest labour. Go and hustle with them.
Also Chicago has the most connected public transport system in the US.. after NYC. You can travel the whole city with $7/day.
Maybe they were hoping for a life full of roses as Illegal... not happening in the US.

Le2money:
Very evil people....within few months of mine in the UK, I have know how much millions in naira dat i have made so far....the fact that u sleeping on ur bed using ur head to calculate how much u will stand to lose if u didn't stand up to work for a day sev gets the country moving forward and people taking their work very serious.....I left a job and my wife was like "will this person pay me like this" I smiled and said to her....this is not Naija, if he didn't pay my few pounds then I will make him pay in thousands...Omoh, my money enter same day he usually pay others oo....God bless Scotland

Gbabe2:



You are right though there is a caveat. The likes of Chicago, Philly, and Baltimore are well known for drugs and killings. I mean daily gun shots, however, if you live in some areas you might not hear about those shootings at all. Can we compare to Nigeria, it all depends on your clique. We have folks that cant live outside of Nigeria for more than 2 weeks. They live well and do have access to almost everything in Nigeria. In conclusion, if you are young and ambitious, please japa. As long as we have the likes of BAT, Atiku, Buhari and his cohorts ruling us, we dont stand a chance. Just my one cent.

delzbaba:
you comot for oyo come go settle for chicago south side? you no see better place like pensylvania or maryland go? dem never shoot ur yansh.

learner007:
No be Obama be that for that photo? Mumu pikin! As if she could ever get close to Buhari's car back home.
All the nonsense written up there is typical of a black teenager in Mid Western parts of America. I lived in different parts of Illinois, including Chicago, for 3 years, so I sabi their ways. She has only stayed for 5 years and has allowed those entitled and bitter akata kids destroy her mentality. Shame!
She claimed the American dream hardly exists for minority. Yet she is clawing her way to University of Chicago medical school. If only you know the reputation of University of Chicago worldwide, then you would understand that America has helped her dream big and kept her dream intact. It would be easier for a camel to slide through the eye of a needle than to get a chance into Uchicago medical prog from Ibadan. I bet you, this girl is already a nightmare to her Nigerian parents. She would have rubbished all of their efforts to get her a better life. Na so these spoilt naija teenagers dey do. Once they get into this place and discover their parents can't touch them, they develop wings and become defiant to all authorities. They see nothing good again, and complain at the slightest thing. Even in Universities, they will drop their medical and tech majors, and start pursuing courses with racial titles. They blame the system for their inadequacies and colorize every single thing. Her type no dey get sense until them don turn 30+ as single mothers. Them full Chicago. Yoruba say, "pikin wey dey blame him parents say them no get money. Make we dey watch wetin she go give him own children." Make una ignore the idiot. America Universities don fund Masters and currently my PhD programs. I dey take care of my parents back home. I'm grateful to God. Every resource spent on Japa moves is well worth it. Na who give up, eff up!

sunboy:


Same way you can’t judge Nigeria based of what’s going on in Boko haram regions only.

MadamVanessa:




Mtcheeewww...tell her now to come back to Nigeria, and see her shakes her head in refusal immediately.

She should stop talking nonsense and complaining. If she finds life there so unbearable, she should relocate back to her paradise Nigeria.

A lot of people would do everything to be in her position. It's better to suffer in a country you're not a citizen than to suffer in a country you're a bonafide citizen, which many Nigerians are currently experiencing in this shithole.


I wish Americans were like me, they will immediately deport her useless ass back to her Eldorado Nigeria. You can't come and benefit so much in my country then still had the guts to write rubbish about the country you benefitted so much from. ingrate.

IPIGMODS:


Illinois, California, NY and others with strict gun control actually have some of the worst gun violence mainly because these are the places with the largest cities and populations.
more importantly, there are just too many guns in the country already, a typical American have at least a gun and some have collections that's more lethal than the local police force.
You can also go to any State with less stricter laws, buy your gun and then go anywhere to commit a gun crime. Some even make their own guns or buy parts online then assemble them bit by bit. It's really crazy and out of control. You can buy a gun for 25 dollars in major cities.
I really don't see a solution.

mmsen:


While what you say is true I really want more Nigerians to leave.

The truth is that most Nigerians are the problem with Nigeria. They hate themselves and their own home more than anybody outside.

Look at the foolish comments in this thread. Someone has reported the truth of life in America and people who haven't been beyond the border of their village are abusing her.

Nigerians do not want to hear the truth that they need to work on building their own home. They'd rather piggy back on someone else's hardword.

Let them go abroad and suffer if that is their desire.

Ishilove:
A Nigerian lady, Ajibola Elisabeth Junaid from Oyo State narrates how she migrated with her family members to the United States in search of greener pastures. Her family settled in Chicago, as they were all asylum seekers. It did not take long for her to discover that hardly does the American dream exist for minorities or people of colour.

She described America as a reality of racism, poverty, food insecurity and gun violence.

She is a senior student at Wendell Phillips Academy High School.

Her narration below:



https://nigeriastandardnewspaper.com/ng/true-life-story-american-dream-is-a-mirage-struggle-only-racism-poverty-food-insecurity-gun-violence-are-realities-ajibola-elizabeth-junaid-a-nigerian-asylum-seeker-in-chicago-narrates-experien/

MadamVanessa:




Mtcheeewww...tell her now to come back to Nigeria, and see her shakes her head in refusal immediately.

She should stop talking nonsense and complaining. If she finds life there so unbearable, she should relocate back to her paradise Nigeria.

A lot of people would do everything to be in her position. It's better to suffer in a country you're not a citizen than to suffer in a country you're a bonafide citizen, which many Nigerians are currently experiencing in this shithole.


I wish Americans were like me, they will immediately deport her useless ass back to her Eldorado Nigeria. You can't come and benefit so much in my country then still had the guts to write rubbish about the country you benefitted so much from. ingrate.

Nobleman80:
Chicago south side is like mushin in Lagos or Alaka in warri crime left right and center but the good news is once you are not affiliated to gang or wearing rolex watch or some other expensive jewelries you don't have anything to fear.