TheBillyonaire:





Yes it is very humbling my brother. I can not imagine a man at almost 50 years decelerating from being a Boss to a Boy Boy for Oyibos. In exchange for clean 247 electricity and security. Definitely, they are better organized than us, right?

But it depends on where you lived in Nigeria. You mentioned being an Igbo man, so it could be that your city is not properly organized as opposed to other places with serene air and cleaner environments.

Alternatively, working as a warehouse handy-man is boy boy in your language. But congratulations for promoting yourself from big man to boy boy.

I promise you that we will build Nigeria, so your children can have a better place to return to, and hopefully you will be visiting often and not when you are too weak to be useful to Nigeria.

Bassmetrics:
Op is very funny. This part got me laughing so loud:"The air we breathe in Nig is different from the one in Australia".
E be like say na fake oxygen we dey take in for naija o.

AmuDimpka:


At 48yrs that you were at the top of your accounting career earning good money in Nigeria, you spent millions to travel to Australia only to go and be learning forklifting and mental health and care giving job at 48yrs when you should be planning retirement

I know say na your wife push you into this...most of the men na their wives dey


I wish you luck sir ....they way it is you will work till your 70s! How do you guys even take such decision

Treadway:
and just like that na so you don turn anti-japa o Gerrard59. Story of my life🤣🤣🤣

Once you dare to have an opinion that doesn't conform to the mob like this, or argue your point of view like this, gbam! You don turn anti-japa be that.

Nairaland members are just something else.

Usefulsense:
Last year, I sought the opinion of Nairalanders concerning my plan to move to Australia.
My major worry was my age (48) and also considering that my net salary in Nigeria was a little over a million Naira per month as the financial controller of a manufacturing company in Onitsha.

Below is the link to the thread I opened to seek peoples advice and I recommend that you go through the thread to fully appreciate
the story that follows.

https://www.nairaland.com/7825207/japa-confused-please-advise. I promised to tell my story after 3 months of my stay in Australia.

I finally left Nigeria on December 7th, 2023 and arrived the country on December 9th with my children. Today, I am exactly 3 months, 2 weeks and 6 days old in Sydney, australia.

This is not a hearsay, it is not an eye witness account, it is my story.

This is intended to guide people who maybe planning to travel outside Nigeria. Should you migrate at an age over 45 or not?

Those who told me not to go are right and those who told me to travel are also right.

Given another opportunity, will I take the decision to move out of Nigeria at 48? Have I made a mistake? How am I surviving?

You will find out in this thread.

To be continued shortly .........

ArewaNightmare:
Pls can 3 million take one to Australia 🦘?

TheBillyonaire:





Yes it is very humbling my brother. I can not imagine a man at almost 50 years decelerating from being a Boss to a Boy Boy for Oyibos. In exchange for clean 247 electricity and security. Definitely, they are better organized than us, right?

But it depends on where you lived in Nigeria. You mentioned being an Igbo man, so it could be that your city is not properly organized as opposed to other places with serene air and cleaner environments.

Alternatively, working as a warehouse handy-man is boy boy in your language. But congratulations for promoting yourself from big man to boy boy.

I promise you that we will build Nigeria, so your children can have a better place to return to, and hopefully you will be visiting often and not when you are too weak to be useful to Nigeria.

Iamzik:


Do you spend naira in Australia? If not then the mental conversion to naira is totally irrelevant. Because your expenses are in AUD

At 1600 AUD how many years will it take you to pay off a mortgage?

Gerrard59:


https://www.nairaland.com/7650379/points-consider-before-after-japa

That's an insight to my views regarding japa. I have been largely consistent with my stance.

Usefulsense:


Who told you I started life afresh?

In Nigeria, I worked for a private company where you're treated like a slave and where people are sacked on daily basis.

I took the best decision to live Nigeria. Here, I am working. I am not begging.

My life here is even better than what it was back home in Nigeria.

You're shouting plan your retirement. Who told you I am not planning my retirement?

If I work here for the next 3 years, I will have a 3 story building of 8 flats somewhere in the East.

Can #2m net salary a month do that for me in Nigeria?

In Nigeria, my gross pay was about #1.3 million per month and my take home is #1.057m.

Here in Australia, despite the fact that I have not fully integrated into the system, I comfortably save 1,600 dollars per month out of the 4,000 dollars I make.

By the time I fully integrate into the system ( like getting Australian drivers license, there are jobs you cannot get without an Australian license) there is no way I won't earn more than that.

For your information, there is dignity of labour here. You don't talk down on people here.

I am not under any pressure. I didn't migrate at 48 to look for papers. Our papers are already coming this year through my wifey.

chidi4sam:


Nigerians in Australia are truly helpful I must confess. There is no tribalism here like we see in our home country. Infact, it was a Yoruba who helped me ( Igbo man) and my family to settle down faster. The family housed my wife for 5 months without collecting rent and also fed her for free until I came me. I failed to mention that I am working with one company owned by a Yoruba man. Immediately he saw me in church, he asked if I am willing to work in his organisation. That's all

chidi4sam:


I have been in both Australian and Canada immigration thread since 2017. E don tey 😃

Mcslize:


Wow! That's very commendable. You are the 3rd person I am hearing this from. They said our Nigerian brothers and sisters are really helping out a lot over there.

I even got to know about one bros that was recommended straight by a Nigerian guy through visa 482 sponsorship. He recommended the bros in their office and they hired him directly from Nigeria and sponsored him. Through recommendation! I was impressed.

Things like these are very impressive.

Mcslize:


Chaaiiiiii! No wonder! Any way, mo na prepare to welcome me in my first landing o if NSW ends up giving me visa, ma no go do like JJC in my first few months o. Na man wey know road them dey follow o.

I see say most of you guys are in NSW.

lacasera14:
Yes but they are living the abroad life here in Nigeria. I know some big men in Nigeria who do not lack power, water, good health care assistance, suffer zero traffic, no malaria, no security challenge because they have security, and even more than what you traveled for. So if you traveled because of these things to slump from a manager to a warehouse boy, I think you should have made more money in Nigeria and be traveling abroad for vacations while you send your children there like the big men do. Meanwhile you're saying all these because your wife already made the grounds soft for you. When you start paying all the bills yourself and taking the responsibility your perspective may differ from what it is now. There's always a disadvantage and advantage to everything in life. You only mentioned advantages thanks to your wife. 3 months your eye never clear yet.

Mcslize:


Visa AUD$4640 for one person. That's roughly about USD$3200. If you have dependant, each will cost extra AUD$2000 per dependant wife or children.

Assessment of your qualification/skills AUD$965. That's roughly about USD$650.

English test USD$125 depending on how fast you are able to get the required scores, or else, you have to reseat it.

This is just a sample for Engineers. So, sum everything up, you should have an idea of what it will cost you for the whole process, excluding flight money and upkeep money.

chidi4sam:


I didn't spend Naira. I have not been to Nigeria for the past 5 years. I spent AED to AUD. When my wife left UAE July last year, she paid initial school fees of 20k AUD. Other expenses should also be approximately 20k AUD. I didn't show POF because I submitted my UAE business licence and a notorized latter to immigration online portal. Her flight to Australia cost 10k AED. I don't know how much it would be in naira presently. As at today, 1AUD is 870 Naira. Do the calculations. Please note, there are lots of new immigration policy that has been implemented recently. Do well to visit Australian immigration website. Last year, my wife did not write IELTS or any other English test. But now, it has changed. Before you start, please double check

koning:




I will NEVER leave Nigeria if i am making N1million as salary in a month.. i dey mad!.

Do you know what Dignity and self respect means.

My dignity, self-respect and self worth means more to me that having light 24 hours a day. I can afford fuel for Gen for christ's sake.

POVERTY IS THE DRIVING FACTOR FOR THE JAPA MENTALITY. Stop fooling yourselves.

Taiwo20:
what's the cost of the forklift training and do they issue certificates?
Does the training firm have an office in Lagos?

Mcslize:


See the kind talk wey u dey spit from your mouth Amu. Amu, u drink Ogogoro dey talk this kind talk?

Mcslize:


Amu, I will not warn you again. Please take caution. No provoke me with your comments please. I take God beg you.

Mcslize:


This must be ogbonti brother. Una don come with una wahala. U no get anybody for Aussie. Stop lieing. Abeg go sit down.

koning:




I will NEVER leave Nigeria if i am making N1million as salary in a month.. i dey mad!.

Do you know what Dignity and self respect means.

My dignity, self-respect and self worth means more to me that having light 24 hours a day. I can afford fuel for Gen for christ's sake.

POVERTY IS THE DRIVING FACTOR FOR THE JAPA MENTALITY. Stop fooling yourselves.

Usefulsense:


Please, respect people's choices. Money is not the only reason why people travel. Besides someone who spent over 30 million to move his family out of Nigeria cannot be said to be a poor man.

The #1million salary is in a private company where you can be relieved of your duties at any time.

I had a friend about the same age with me in lagos. He lost his job and the chief Accountant of a company in Ikeja. In three years, he has not been able to secure another job.

He now drive a taxi in lagos. When started my migration pla, I told him but he saw it as stupidity.

Last month we discussed, he wished he had moved the way I did. He was contemplating selling his land to commence the process.

I told him I didn't sell anything. That it will be unwise fir him to sell his only asset in Nigeria.

Yes abroad is not easy, you work for money. But Nigeria is not easier. The level of unemployment in Nigeria and Australia van never be compared. You can compare unemployment in Nigeria with that of Ghana.

chidi4sam:


I guess you don't read to understand but to reply. Let me break it down. He said, what he saves in Nigeria after paying for bills and other expenses is $1600 a month. This will yet increase in the nearest months as he is just 3 months old in Australia. By the time he fully settles, he can save(after expenses) as much as 3k a month. Do you understand now? 🤔

Usefulsense:


See them. Hate filled souls.

Mcslize:


Come off it bruv. Stop that. No be for Australia bruv. Stop this blatant lie. Australia is a multicultural country. Everyone is treated equal. If you see any obvious discrimination, you can report to the appropriate body and they will take it up.

Australia is not your average Joe country o.

Gerrard59:


Not again!!!

Unless he intends to return to Nigeria later in life, why the conversion? Is he spending naira in Australia? Just as I stated above, returning has to be planned now or else, he will be in Australia for the rest of his life, as flying to Nigeria would not be feasible unless he gets quite rich to afford it. Remaining in Australia for the rest of his life erodes whatever AUD to NGN conversion you have there.

His earnings and expenses are in AUD, stick to it. Nothing concerns NGN in Australia.

chidi4sam:



We save and invest in Nigeria too. No one stays in a foreign land forever. What I quoted is money he can save after expenses. Infact, now they are two (himself and wife), they can even save more. If you do not have limited right to work (student) visa, you can earn what I quoted above. I am not giving false figures. The last time I checked, the current exchange rate to Aus$ is 950 (it was above 1k few weeks ago). In a fortnight, he can earn between 2500-2800 from one job (times it by 2 to see what it is in one one). If you don't have limited work right you can have about 2-3 employers paying you in one month. 1 can be your permanent employer while the other 2 is part time. What you make from your permanent employer is for savings while what you earn from part time is for expenses. Except you are lazy, you will hit it big in Australia in a very short time. I am not exaggerating.

Gerrard59:


Interesting. I am curious, how do you intend to monitor your investments while in far-flung Australia? How many times do you or your partner intend to visit Nigeria to see things for yourself?