pocohantas:
Nairalanders and English understanding.
The question isn't building a house in the village, but building a mansion while staying in a rented house in town.

@OP, one word...'stupeedity'.

All the igbos shouting we retire to our villages, is Lagos the only town that comes to mind?
Don't your states have towns?
Must you build in Lagos, can't you build in your cities...e.g Enugu, Owerri? Put tenants there and reserve one flat for yourself?

Sometimes you guys just bring insult on yourselves. Has building ever made a city? It's the economic activities therein.
It's not by building house in your villages, since you wanna form retirement, relocate your businesses to the East.

Octaves:
Whats this one saying. Go to any igbo city like Onitsha or Owerri and observe before u comment. Nobody builds houses like igbo people

harakiri:
People do this for different reasons.One main reason is that a lot of peeps who do this "originated" from the village/towns and spent their child hood years back "home" so the only people they can floss for are those at home.That is why Igbos love going home.You won't see any born and breed in Lagos guy being too enthusiastic about visiting home during xmas.It's the one's who were born and raised there that look forward to it with feverishness so that they can see their peeps and oppress the poor villagers.So to such people, the city is just a hustling ground and nothing more. We called ur type my mama tell me say I be igbo,or maybe u father never build any house in ur village but keep telling all his children that village is bad , if u ve money build house in ur village ur not better than emeka ofor ifeanyi uba or orange drug boss or abiriba
People or is lagos ur papa land
Another reason people build houses in the village is to "identify" with their people.They want to lay their mark as "sons/daughters of the soil".It's a thing of honour to hustle in the city and show your achievements in the village.

Then, there are some who just build in the village because EVERYBODY who has money is doing it.I know a guy who has 2 houses in lag and 1 in the village.The village house cost him close to N30 million and he has only slept there ONCE.Whenever he goes home,he sleeps in hotels because he fears "village people" and you wonder, why did you build the house in the first place.

Nuff said!

funkiebully:
I will rather live in one room in d city and build a mansion in my village. Abandoned property has taught us a big lesson.

If u must build mansion build it in igbo city. Aku ruo ulo

anyimgbo:
my brother don't you have a village? Or is Lagos your village... Poverty go.......

blackprowler:


I'm amazed that people who say they've learnt a lesson from "Abandoned Property" couldn't learn the actual lesson that's supposed to be learnt of never provoking a senseless war. You may not know it but there were Ibos outside "Biafra" and they weren't killed or their property seized. You will live in this life and die within 100yrs. You better enjoy your short life and not think you're here forever

mamagee3:


Are you from mammi-water kingdom?

Richmond996:
To me its wise to build a house in the village before building in the city.
There is no place like home (village/roots) if anything happens in that city u re in, where will you run to.

Besides are you from that "city"

tonychristopher:


Every Yoruba man is a lagisian

yemivictor:


What if anything happens in that village you have built your mansion? What will you do?

Mgbadike80:
then how come fashola deported many of them? Lagos is no a mans land. all the government is after is tax and revenue. they don't care a bit about the tribalists shouting "our region". i gain more from Lagos than most yorubas.

Mgbadike80:
then how come fashola deported many of them? Lagos is no a mans land. all the government is after is tax and revenue. they don't care a bit about the tribalists shouting "our region". i gain more from Lagos than most yorubas.

rhymz:
can you stop deluding yourself with that trite argument of Lagos being no man's land. Fashola is not interested in you, that is why common sense should tell you to build in your home town first as that is an investment you can not lose as a result of one ill-tempered government deporting to that village you look with so much disdain.

deluxecad:
I think it's penny wise pound foolish to build a country home in your village you visit once a year or hardly even do and living in a rented house in town where you spend almost all your life. Would you rather create impression at home while you remain a tenant in town?

mascot87:
The witches & wizards that will kill u in ur village are filing the spiritual cutlass they will use on u. God build house for their u hear

coldcandy:


Buildings don't make a city.
business activities and industry are what matters.

deluxecad:
I think it's penny wise pound foolish to build a country home in your village you visit once a year or hardly even do and living in a rented house in town where you spend almost all your life. Would you rather create impression at home while you remain a tenant in town?