₦airaland Forum

BrickandLace:
Pure denial typical UK style.

uvie66:
.... another nonsense talk, if you bought your house in your 20s by 50s you will own your house outright

VanuatuWycombe:
For mental health, they use psychiatric nurses/doctors.

I said you should start a gym, if your area needs one. That’s on a lighter note sha. You would see I even said you at start a massage palour and be getting free opueh , on top your normal charges.

BrickandLace:
No sun
Odd food except for tandoori / Nigerian
Black and grey clothes all the time
Narrow streets
Tv license
Jamo-african hostilities

I didn't like it much either.

budaatum:
I am going to go to sleep like millions of Nigerians abroad will, and I am going to wake up in the morning, because one "Richmond Mensah, a father of one, went to sleep in preparation for a night shift and never woke up. He was just 33" does not in any way mean that I, at twice Richmond's age, and who has lived abroad longer that Richmond lived, would not wake up tomorrow because Richmond did not wake up, and any one who wants to scare me that I would not wake up would need to come kill me in my sleep themselves.

But quote me to see if I died please, because op has a point that you must:

Sleep! You need the rest wherever you may be.

Afolue:
Life abroad isn’t a palatable experience. Too much hard work, limited sleep, limited time for one’s self, loneliness, pressures etc.

In Nigeria little or limited opportunities to earning a living. But all of the above can be overcomed.

Contentment can indeed be a wealth of nature. Many still dey make am las, las for Nigeria …

PDJT:
- Which country can I go with a skill in Psychotherapy and Counselling?

Alapereketu:
is 300k peanut salary

budaatum:
To be honest, my body is adapting too as I have to pee like every 2 hours or so. Thankfully, the loo ain't too far from the bed, so I stumble back afterwards and continue. And short bursts.

As for spending money, I better or I give it away, but it's spent if invested.

HacheNoire:
Okay!

Tell us what you pay every year after outrightly owning, and what happens when you don’t pay.

Can you enlighten us?

uvie66:
...I got a mortgage in my 20s paying £400 a month, house was bought for 80k. I'm now in my 50s still living in the house worth over 400k. Do the maths. The only I pay every year is the council tax.

ravensckar:
When asked what suprised him most about humanity the Dalai Lama answered;

"Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health...."

Watch how Nigerians will say they rather suffer from insomnia abroad than remain in Nigeria.

Coconut head people. People wey suffer for Buhari hand for 8 years and still went ahead to vote Tinubu.

PDJT:
- Which country can I go with a skill in Psychotherapy and Counselling?

Alapereketu:
is 300k peanut salary

doctore212:
In this UK eeh, sleep na luxury.

That's why I ran away from my Zambian babe last year, once I come back make I close my eyes, she gi don mix dates and tiger nut.

To collect opueh was even war. I just found one silly excuse and discharged her.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


My BP have returned to normal since then

PDJT:
- Which country can I go with a skill in Psychotherapy and Counselling?

budaatum:
To be honest, my body is adapting too as I have to pee like every 2 hours or so. Thankfully, the loo ain't too far from the bed, so I stumble back afterwards and continue. And short bursts.

As for spending money, I better or I give it away, but it's spent if invested.

BrickandLace:
No sun
Odd food except for tandoori / Nigerian
Black and grey clothes all the time
Narrow streets
Tv license
Jamo-african hostilities

I didn't like it much either.

ndidibabe:
entry level even pay more than 300k now in that industry....300k NGN is less than 200USD. Thats no longer peanut but ridiculous..

ariesbull:
Trust me many Nigerians are living better...if you live in a decent 3 bed flat in Nigeria not box houses in UK , you have a decent car with your wife and not entering train like they do in UK and you ha e a decent job paying you 500k to 1 million not doing shift back to back with back piano and insomnia and depression

Trust me the guys in Nigeria are doing far better than you in UK !

Bogusmoney:
You wrote from a point of ignorance. If you’ve actually travelled out you wouldn’t have written this:
(1) which house in Nigeria is decent when you have no proper sewage disposal, no 24/7 electricity to power your household,no appropriate waste disposal , no cooling system
(2) you’re doubly ignorant not to know that rail transport is one of the best in the world and reduces the need for families to own cars. If there was a proper rail network cities like Lagos won’t be congested as people can comfortably live in Ogun or Ibadan and go to and fro work reliably
(3) the 500k-1m in this economy is nonsense, when you fall sick can it take care of you with the quack NHIS and those nonsense private insurance in Nigeria that won’t prescribe you anything beyond paracetamol
(4) you lack wisdom and knowledge, travel to cure yourself of ignorance

HacheNoire:
What happens when you don’t pay?

The point is still boils down to my initial point. You will be in your toes forever.

Unlike Nigeria, my house is mine forever! My great and grandfather’s houses are still in the property line. We practically pay 0 to be in our own houses .

uvie66:
...Yes it is peanut salary, especially if you live in Lagos, by the time you pay over 1.5 m in annual rent, what is left??

ariesbull:
Not every rent pays 1.5 million ...with 300k you can live decently in a room apartment here in Lagos Nd en doing like 600k per annum or that...

MrBadNews:
Still better than staying in the hell called Nigeria

Wotowotoman:
What math did you do that told you that 300k is less than 200 dollars? No lie, you pass maths for WAEC? 🤔

Empresa:
Everything the OP said is true. Japa is not for the weak, it's not for the lazy and it's not for those who don't have a savings culture.

I will always advise anybody with plans to japa to ensure he has a soft landing. It's easier that way, if you go all by yourself without any soft landing, I swear it is extremely difficult to save up but it's possible.

Secondly I will advise anybody on a mission to japa to have a skill that is in demand in your country of preference. With a soft landing and an I demand skill, you make it quite easily.

Grace differs, life is a risk, no pain no gain.

Alapereketu:
180k per annum for room self contained at adepitan street alapere ketu Lagos

That's where I'm living and what I'm paying till now

Wotowotoman:
A wise man once said that If you are tired of London, then you are tired of life. I guess this only applies to those living in Central. I love London pass any city in this world

uvie66:
Still better than Roads filled with pot holes, schools that look like poultry farms, and Band A and Band B wahala, and this is just a snippet. No WiFi, No Security, No public transport (Keke and Okada), No running water, (borehole)

ariesbull:
You might be staying in hell , there are people that staying in heaven in Nigeria


It's better to be a king in hell than a slave in heaven