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May1st:
On top memory card wey u wan buy? �����

Bros even if na screen guard I wan buy, I no go lose guard. Because on top that memory card you fit no come back with your own memory. !!

allandutch:
Lagosians can lie too.

For me, by default, every Lagosian I meet is a liar until I can confirm that they're not.

Aswear.. They lie to survive. 90% of lagosians Na packaging. No room for savings. Everybody wants to drip drip

OVB123:
Infact God will deliver us from the kind of live we are living in Lagos. 85% of people living in the state, end up spending their monthly salary in the state, year in, year out without anything to show for it.

You're very correct!

I haven't been paid yet but I will be left with just 2k or debt by the time that alert beep.
Lagos taya me .

BadBradley:
what?

My man! Where've you been? so long.

americaninja1:
Aswear.. They lie to survive. 90% of lagosians Na packaging. No room for savings. Everybody wants to drip drip

Me I just enjoy their stories with a "Na so" attitude.

obontami:
My man! Where've you been? so long.

Ebami! sup, bro

BadBradley:
Ebami! sup, bro

I'm good. I thought you've left NL. I miss your disses and intelligent posts here.


Hope you good.

obontami:
I'm good. I thought you've left NL. I miss your disses and intelligent posts here.


Hope you good.

I have o . Just read front page and comment when I'm free and compelled to.

How your side?

BadBradley:
I have o . Just read front page and comment when I'm free and compelled to.

How your side?

I'm just chilling breh, good to have you back. When next are you coming to gidi?

otipoju:
What are the best places to live in Ondo states.
If you dont mind give me a breakdown of the different areas and their advantages and disadvantages.

The commercial areas, residential areas/estates upscale, middle class etc. Night life happening spots etc.

The last time i was in lagos in 2018 after a four year absence, i knew i cannot live in Lagos again. All i saw was a pack of mad hyenas...and kept wondering if i was like that before i left Lagos.

Ondo is where i would choose to live if i ever have an extended stay.

Ill be expecting your write up. Please.

Ondo city
Akure
Owo

Those three should meet your needs as stated earlier.

obontami:
I'm just chilling breh, good to have you back. When next are you coming to gidi?

soon hopefully. When Coro give chance

BadBradley:
soon hopefully. When Coro give chance

Amen brother. Hope to see you soon.

No

Ishilove:
Hello sonofjos, thank you for sharing.

People like us who were born and raised here notice a marked difference in the tempo of activities in other areas of the country. I was in Ondo for a year and I almost ran mad there because life in that state is so... sleepy. Everyone was just moving like geriatric patients, unlike Lagos here where if you are too slow, you will be shoved aside. Last last when it was time to leave, I packed my travelling bags and two mighty Ghana-must-go bags and fled the place by 6am.

Lagos is a melting pot of different ethnic groups with different characters, both saintly and shady, so overtime it developed a character unique to it. We talk angrily a lot of the times because there is someone somewhere always trying to provoke you, cheat you, or steal from you so we are always on guard and on the defensive. Someone tried to pick my bag last year but the kind of eye I gave him must have turned his ancestors in their graves.

Add the congested roads and the traffic and you cannot be calm even if you try to. You will be angry for no reason. Yoruba people call it 'kan ra'. Pepper body. That is why danfo drivers behave like animals because one cannot sit inside hold up day in day out, inhaling noxious exhaust fumes, avoiding police, LASTMA, NURTW agbero, taskforce, police, VIO, those new ones wearing green uniform (I don't know these ones. There are so many uniforms in Lagos) and still be completely sane.

Conductors and passengers fighting is a normal thing. One day I was returning from work and saw two fighting in the middle of the road, and what amazed me was they were sparring like professional boxers, complete with the boxer's stance and leg work. iKid you not. Conductor and passenger. It was the agberos, funny enough, who came to chase them from the road because they were constituting nuisance to other road users. The kid you described did not have any super powers. He was just acting like the typical Lagosian who has been conditioned to act out in the face of provocation. Eat or be eaten. Some of these conductors are very rude and nasty (I suspect it is their own defence mechanism) while some passengers on the other hand are idiots.

The trader in Computer Village was not 'threatening' you. They are simply aggressive marketers. If you don't aggressively market your products you won't make any sales because there a 1001 traders selling the same thing as you. The secret to walking successfully through the Village is rearranging your face to look like granite, avoiding eye contact with anyone and stubbornly ignoring 'threatening'' calls. They cannot hijack you from the road into their shop, abi? Develop military mind!

The same military mind my friend Sanchez01 took to Enugu when he went on a visit. He wanted to board a bus and used ishon (muscle) to run pell mell to where the bus was parked waiting for him. When he jumped in with the skill of a James Bond stuntsman, he met the driver and passengers staring at him strangely.

The driver asked him: "Oga, are you from Lagos?", to which he replied in the affirmative. The driver then remarked "No wonder. It is only Lagos people that behave like they are fighting with everyone."

Rofl! Now I know why I am the way I am.

RSVP:
You're very correct!

I haven't been paid yet but I will be left with just 2k or debt by the time that alert beep.
Lagos taya me .

The most painful part is that there is no state to run to except Lagos. The rest are glorified towns and not cities.

obontami:
Amen brother. Hope to see you soon.

Just like Ebonyi state has Igbo towns known as Iffium so Cross River like.

But the South Easterners conveniently ignore his other more central Igbo names.

AlphaT1:
Everybody in Lagos is angry....I mean very very angry. .... Extremely angry!

loool. Hi sir, longest time. Trust you've been good. Can I send you a message?

Jakumo:
As an unrepentant and ashamed villager to the bone, most cities are not my cup of tea, but Lagos occupies a surreally dystopian realm of its own, as a nightmarish and chaotic war zone that easily meets and exceeds all the criteria comprising my personal definition of hell on Earth.

1. Anger. As the OP stated EVERYBODY is fighting mad the instant they wake up in the bowels of Lagos, and primed on a hair-trigger, to start screaming, punching, biting and kicking like wounded animals, even in the total absence of any visible provocation.

2. Danger. Every traffic jam that traps your vehicle could be the location of your most serious injury ever sustained, or the site where you will be killed outright, by roving packs of hungry and desperate robbers who specialize in smashing car windows and stabbing the occupants while grabbing their valuables in a feeding frenzy.

3. Air and Nose Pollution : The harsh, choking smog billowing from millions of gridlocked rickety cars that are never regulated to reduce toxic emissions, combined with the unrelenting cacophony of EVERY driver leaning on their blaring car horn full time, punctuated by the hysterical screaming of combatants locked in frenetic fisticuffs, is cumulatively GUARANTEEED to reduce any human lifespan by a decade or more.

4. Uniformed Terrorists. Lagos is awash with a thousand different uniformed personnel, all foaming at the mouth in absolute rage, as they vigorously vie for supremacy over one another, and over civilians who, despite having no uniform to wear, are still more than willing to stand their ground while loudly invoking that ubiquitous phrase "Do you know who I am ?" in a suicidal bid to intimidate their uniformed oppressors, even when such adversaries are fully armed and more than ready to pull the trigger.

5. Utterly hopeless traffic congestion. Commuting from one side of Lagos to the other could take as little as 30 minutes, or as long as 5 hours, depending on whether accidents have blocked the road, or petrol tankers have once again exploded in traffic incinerating scores of people, or road works are in progress, blocking all but the narrowest escape routes.

To all who grew up in Lagos and love the place, may I just wish y'all the very best. As for me, I would sooner spend a month camping in the deepest and darkest forest, shooting snakes as needed, than spend a single day in the finest luxury hotel available in Lagos. Not for a million dollars cash, and paid up front, would I ever accept the challenge to spend a single week trapped in Lagos. Were it not for the international airport that happens to be located in Lagos, I would gladly and gratefully avoid setting foot in that congested and squalid post-Armageddon landscape, until I am dead and buried.

Perhaps it is no surprise that my favorite city on this planet, is San Diego California, where just about any location in town, can be reached in ten minutes of easy, relaxing freeway driving, with the car's cruise-control set at 55mph, and the radio station playing smooth jazz. Now THAT, is my kind of city. A life spent in Lagos, would amount to a death sentence by agonizing installment, for this simple country boy.

I just couldn't resist quoting this. Bravo

I was born and raised in Lagos and left @ 19. I have spent some years in Anambra, Kaduna, Zamfara and Abuja. I don't wish to go back there

Imaging going to Westminster near Coconut by Apapa Oshodi Express Way and a guy met me and Asked for what I needed and I told him I needed a larger memory card.

He collected the one in my phone and we went round the market and I wasn't satisfied with what I saw.
I asked him to give me my memory card na the guy come dey charge me for money for taking me round if not I should forget my card. Las las I had to settle him before I get my memory card back.

JIREN01:
loool. Hi sir, longest time. Trust you've been good. Can I send you a message?

Oh so sorry bro. Have not been here for a long time. Pls feel free to send me email directly anytime.

DonId:
I spent a great part of my early life in Lagos and got used to the hustle and bustle of life in Lagos. Fast forward to 1998 and I had to go to school in Jos. First few months and I was always angry at the slow pace of life especially with their transporters who would always stop once a passenger says Akwei. I left Jos after university a reformed man and have refused to go back to Lagos (even when work opportunities have presented openings for movement).

Lagos is a “mad” place and shortens peoples life’s (but they don’t know it). Life is not meant to rushing from one place to another every time. I live in a city where I close from work and can be home in 10 minutes without traffic and cannot imagine trading it for 10 minutes inside traffic everyday. Lagosians are wonderful people but life is saner in some other climes. So for those that cannot leave Lagos, I wish you stay out of Lagos for like 2 years and then you will realize that life is meant to lived in peace and not in traffic.

Many of them don't know this........let them run a survey of the stress level of people from other states n that of lagosians and that'd give dem a cause to worry. Life no be rush I tell u

A place i'll love to be,

So i'll be going to Lagos hopefully next month, when there would make my own review.
Grew up in the south cool city of port harcourt, interesting experience im gonna love