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| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 5:29pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:I will say this here.If you want to live the same or anything that resembles the standard of living in the west inside Nigeria, N5m will not provide you even 40% of that. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by rigvod: 5:37pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
NurseGrace:How much is he earning? For a woman, contributing/making 5 million naira is good for the family. Goodluck. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 5:43pm On Sep 16, 2024*. Modified: 7:45am On Sep 17, 2024 |
erico2k2:For security reasons I can not mention my household income… If you can 110% guarantee me an 8-10 million naira MONTHLY job tomorrow in Nigeria ohhh… same Nigeria, I would be on the first plane out by midnight today and abandon these hundreds of thousands. .. nothing wey you wan tell me for 10m in Nigeria. I would return. Absolutely nothing. First what kind of work will you do in Nigeria? you are not even working. Most do not ‘work’. They go to their places of work and have time to do school run, go to bank in between, go to market inbetween.. so many frivolities.. so much excuses. As an oil worker nurse as she mentioned, she is working at most in their clinic, where they handle very minor cases. Serious things are pushed to the secondary and tertiary centres. She would be living her life and her standard of living to her 5 million naira. Madam nurse can afford a driver, a personal chef, a personal nanny, personal launderer on her payroll monthly. With 5k pounds (which she will not even get) she can not pay all these people for 30 days of a month + pay her rent and bills from same salary in the UK!!!! Truth. How many Nigerian women are even seeing 1 million naira monthly? I rest my case. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lastkingsman: 6:01pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
NurseGrace:If it's truly 5m per month, the take the oil and gas job in Nigeria and plan migrating to Australia via PR in two years time. The per in Australia is higher and foreign international passport/ exposure will be great for you and your family. All the best |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Samguine: 6:14pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:If you are assured of a 5m/month job in Nigeria NOW, will you leave the UK and go resume the job in Nigeria? |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 6:19pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
Samguine:I have already answered this question above in better context, assure me 10 million naira monthly now with signed papers I will leave tonight. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 6:20pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:Let me ask you this, If you are a Band 8 and Earnming over £80k will you say thesame thing? |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 6:23pm On Sep 16, 2024*. Modified: 10:28am On Sep 17, 2024 |
erico2k2:Who band 8 help? I earn more. Then household goes way above this. Wetin again? You do know people are collecting 200k? Is this oil worker nurse coming as band 8 or going to be band 8 in 2 years?? She wants to come to £2000- £2300 start as against 5 million naira start and I said no!! Please let us be giving people reassurances based on their current options on ground and what is at stake. Again, give me 10million now now and assure me I will see this for at least next 2 years, I will go back. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 6:29pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:YOu say you earn more than 70K pounds right? hold on let me go fru your profile on here IM coming hold up |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 6:31pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
erico2k2:While you are at that, @nursegrace pls go and collect your 5million naira and start. Don’t come on £2000 start. You are not band 8. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 6:46pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:So I am back, You stated you migrated to the UK in 2019, so in 4 years you have managed to climb up to a BAND 8 right? |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Goodenoch: 6:50pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
erico2k2:Will the nurse start at Band 8? Won't she be at band 5 or thereabouts taking home maybe 2,200 per month which is even less than the 5 million naira? Personally I would say take that job, save aggressively and be in a position to travel in a couple of years if they still want to. Nurses will always be in demand so it's not like if she doesn't travel now she won't be able to do it later. Getting a job as a civil engineer without prior UK experience is unlikely to be straightforward (granted I don't know much about that field) so it means they may have to get by on a single income for a while (especially as someone will need to care for the young children). It's a no brainer, in my view. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by 1stdami(m): 6:52pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
Hi everyone, I have got a question. My school resumes today 16th of September, I got my CAS today. Is it okay to still apply for my visa even with these dates so close? My school start teaching on the 23rd of September. I plan on applying for the priority visa and doing a walk-in appointment. How realistic is this? Looking forward to your responses |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 6:54pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
Goodenoch:I think you should read what I wrote again, I'm not talking about the Nurse, Im asking you a question. as your post I quoted where that of your personal situation. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 6:58pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
[quote author=erico2k2 post=132031025][/quote]My goodness. First off, you have not even completed your research accurately. Next, so everyone in UK is a nurse and all are working towards becoming band 8 nurses? I didn’t know that I was a nurse or that I was managing and aspiring to be a band 8… thank you for realigning me to a path I didn’t even know I was supposed to be on ![]() *slaps head* Stop giving unbalanced options to oil worker nurse and basing your discuss about band 8. It is so laughable at this time as she is not one nor will be one in 2 years. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Jamesclooney: 7:02pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:My brother, like we said, it’s a personal choice. It’s a topic that’s open to debate. Roughly speaking, I have lived both lives (not 60M per annum salary, but close in a multinational. Also not £30k pa salary, a bit more & different industries). If I put myself in OP’s shoes, I’m assuming a total annual family income of 70M (regular civil servants don’t earn much plus the husband is advising her to take UK job, means 10M pa is generous from my side). My budget pa (Lekki, Lagos) on 70M pa - Rent, 7M - School Fees, 6M (3M per child) - Utilities , 3M (service charge, NEPA) - Feeding, 4M (1k per meal X 4 mouths X 365 days) - Transport, 2M (with fuel scarcity and lots of stress) - domestic staff, 3M - Miscellaneous, 1-2 M TOTAL 🟰 23 - 25 M. Left with 45M (£20k as at today, may be worth significantly less in a short period of time). Most Nigerian families want to train their kids abroad or give birth abroad (if in they’re in child bearing stage), to secure their future. UK Budget on family income of £4,000/month - Rent, £1000 - Childcare, £1,000 - Utilities & council, £400 - Feeding, £400 - Transport, £100 - miscellaneous, £100 TOTAL 🟰 £3,000. £1,000 savings monthly. £12K left over per annum. With the UK option, free education for my kids, pathway to citizenship to increase their chances at making it in live. I know rich men in Nigerian that are crying over foreign tuition fees. One of my mentors calls me every now and again to ask me UK tuition fees (I told him to budget £20k/pa, 45M naira. He has 3 children in Secondary school). Canada and US are not cheaper/better. So in summary, it depends on your long-term vision for your family. To each his own, no qualms. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 7:05pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
Goodenoch:I think people tend to under xtimate the UK 2200 pounds as a Registered nurse with a PIN really if you earn 30000k you are likely to take home 2500.A registered Nurse will be a Band 5 with typical pay of 33 to 36k in London.NO let me also mention here, Coming to the UK is more than just money as a matter of fact, the non financial benefits out wits the financial ones.Now you was talking about getting a Job as a civil Engineer, yes you can, You can start as a Junior, I started as a mechanical Engineer right as a Junior few years later I grew to be a fluid Engineer. Ro there are loads more than money here, if not the rich will not send their kids here from Nigeria. If one do not have the funds to come here that is totally understandable but if they do then its a no brainer. PS,this is not limited to just the UK, all over the west. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 7:09pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
Jamesclooney:Well done Bross for the calculation I could not have put it any better. I feel that bross never go 9ja for a while now. Nigeria Rumple as we speak, things are very xpenssive.We discovered that someone with a take home salary of N500k is now poor imagine. I know people who run thier household with N3m each month and still no fantastic life regards them things they cannot control. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 7:12pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:Yes I did do my research and asked you how you magically earn above 70K when you arrived i n the Uk 2019 that is about 4 years ago, not even enough to get indefinite leave to remain, you shied away from that question cos you have no realistic answers, I did not want to beat o n that horse as its your Biz, but I have to say this in response to your post. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 7:16pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
@jamesclooney I wonder why you are forcing this nurse to live in Lekki. I don’t understand. What if she is in Ph? Also childcare is not £1000 in UK for 2 children monthly. Pls ask around well. Rent of £1000 for how many people? Utilities and council 400 hmm… And why are you calculating with 4k? Her husband is not getting a job the day she lands to start her £2000 UK nurse role pls. Kindly use the £2000 as we are comparing the realities she will set off with. 5 million naira reality START or £2000 reality START. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 7:20pm On Sep 16, 2024*. Modified: 7:55pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
erico2k2:Haha if you go up you would see for security reasons. 200k household income is not a myth. Know this today. Also know that nurses are not even among the top 5 earning careers in the UK so I wonder why you insist I must be a nurse and I can not do what you say I have not done. I am not a daft person and absolutely will not release my financial details to you further than what I have done. As usual, not everything is about ILR and talking about it on nairaland. I however am more concerned about the nurse and her starting with £2000. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 7:20pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:Just so you know,£2000 is less than N5m, so do you think this is right? |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 7:22pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
erico2k2:Give me 10 million naira now ie. 120 million naira per annum and let me be going and leave everything for you Mr. Ericko |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Jamesclooney: 7:24pm On Sep 16, 2024*. Modified: 9:59pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
erico2k2:Bro, it’s so tragic what is happening back home. I don’t think it gets enough global coverage. How can a currency collapse from £1/600 to £1/2,200 in 16 months and yet everyone is going about like it’s normal? Which salary increase can accommodate that level of devaluation? Especially with our demand for foreign goods, from petrol to education & even medical trips. I did undergraduate studies when £1 = 280 naira. My parents were modest earners. Which middle class parent wan try that one now ![]() Anyone advocating for anything Naija (investment or relocation) is clearly not looking at the current trends. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 7:25pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:Oga rest,what rubbish security reasons, even if you are CTC cleared don't mean shyte. GUy stop boasting,200k my backside. You do not need all these to make a suggestive argument, you are doing well on this thread stic to it and don't start all this assumptions deviation you are flinging right now. From the way you are talking one can easily grasp that you have not been in the Uk for long as regards the grading of a Nursing persons salary. And also you are blasting yourself in the leg cos if you who came in the UK 2019 can have a household Income of above 200k as stated by your lord mayor YOU then why cant OP?? nah two head you get ni, guy rest abeg. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 7:28pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
You are the one that went on acting as a detective and same you is the one still angry. Lagos na wa. erico2k2: |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 7:29pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
Jamesclooney:People do not know bro, imagine to even now come here you have to be a millionaire, Its so xpenssive imagine spending almost N30m. now the pounds is N2200 if you use tetrad.SO ordinary UK phone you cant buy and send to 9ja cos a 100 pounds phone is now above N250k in 9ja, very soon all the kids abroad will buy the lands and houses in Nigeria and Local man will pack to the village to reset. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 7:31pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:Angry ke lol is that the only response you could co me up with since I just put it to you that you was a liar ![]() nah una way, Una go dey make mouth shey your body don cold now. anyway your Biz, back to the topic plzz OP Japa if the offer stands still cos very soon,9ja go worse pass ZIM and Venezuela. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 7:36pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237:You don't even understand what is happening around you sound like a person who get fed by their parents,N10m is less than £5kGuy go hustle stop playing make your mate nor leave you behind.4 your m ind you go think say nah yab I dey yab you but nah coded advice. |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by giselle237: 7:42pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
I understand that you are upset because what you believed to be the ultimate job—a Band 8 nurse position in the NHS—has not met your expectations. I feel that your frustration increased when you thought you had me profiled, which led to a significant derailment. Secondly, it is unproductive to label others as liars without knowing their circumstances. I encourage you to engage in adult conversations online without resorting to insults. Thanks. erico2k2: |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by erico2k2(m): 7:52pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
giselle237: ![]() See as you dey xplain your self,Only 4 years in D Uk you don dey xplain OP Japa ohhh |
| Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by elengine: 9:51pm On Sep 16, 2024 |
Please and please. Stay away from giving advice to the woman if you do not belong to the following group: 1. You are a nurse in uk and have stayed up to 2 years 2. You have been in the UK for more than 5 years 3. You just moved to UK or your spouse is in Uzk but you were/are earning close to 40m per annum in naija. Please do not misinform her because it is a life decision. If you have not seen money before, you might think 5 million naira is something but you ve forgotten that there are some hidden cost that come with earning 5m monthly. |
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if you earn 30000k you are likely to take home 2500.A registered Nurse will be a Band 5 with typical pay of 33 to 36k in London.NO let me also mention here, Coming to the UK is more than just money as a matter of fact, the non financial benefits out wits the financial ones.