From Quora in 2018.

Below is the answer I found to the above question from a Joe Hall who has lived in UK all his life.


What should I know as a Nigerian before immigrating to the UK?

- That you are black

- That you will be labelled an “African”

- That you may not get jobs you are qualified to do due to your ethnicity/colour

- That your African name may be the reason you can't find work.

- That your accent may be the reason you can't get a good job.

- That there are lots of opportunities in the UK despite of the setbacks you may encounter.

- That you may find a good job straight away.

- That it is often easier for black people to find a job in the public sector than in the private sector. But there are no hard and fast rules. If you are a likable person they may give you a chance as the first black person they have hired.

- That unemployed people can claim unemployment benefit indefinitely for years.

- Most Nigerians live in London

- That you will feel at home in London

- 3 bedroom houses in the worst areas of London cost £300k to £450k to buy

- Nigerians also live in the Thurrock area of Essex just outside London, where £450000 gets you a much nicer house than you can get in London.

- You can live anywhere you like in London without bother from anybody if you have the money.

- That Nigerians and other African school children in the UK do better than whites and Asians at school.

- That of all the black nationalities living in the UK, only Jamaicans are more likely to find themselves in prison than Nigerians.

- That you can get deported if you get yourself in trouble.

- That the British courts have powers to strip drug dealers and other criminals of all their assets following a conviction, if the defendant is unable to explain how he lawfully aquired his fortune.

- Some tradesmen in London earn £150k per annum. So if you are well educated but can't find a good job in your own field, if you are good with your hands don't dismiss the trades as beneath you. ( By trades I mean Carpenter, plumber, gas man, electrician, car mechanic etc ). A trades job will pay the mortgage.

- Medicine and Nursing are the only professions in the UK where you are guaranteed to get a job if you are qualified. But for Medicine you need to pass a tough English language test before you can register to work as a doctor as a non-EU migrant. ( EU doctors who speak poor English are asked to sit the test as well, if their work collegues feel their poor English could put patients lives at risk. The test is compulsory for all non-EU doctors ).

- The gem trade in the UK is not a regulated profession. So some African cleaners in the UK pay for their children's private school fees by dealing in diamonds.

- Even if you are only doing a menial job in London, it is very important to buy a house or flat. There are millionaire cleaners, bus drivers and other low paid workers in London. They aquired that million or two buy buying a property on a mortgage that has grown in value to over a million pounds.

- Robert Mugabe's mansion in Zimbabwe costs £7.5 million. But in London you won't get much for £7.5 million inspite of all the controversy about him.

Here are some houses in London currently on sale for £7.5 million. Enjoy!


6 bedroom house for sale, £7.5 million, Marylebone, central London ( the one with the plants ) :

6 bedroom for sale, central London, £7.5 million :

6 bedroom for sale, £7.5 million, East Finchley, London N2 ( north London ) :

6 bedroom for sale, £7.5 million, East Finchley, London N2 :

6 bedroom house, Surbiton, London £ 7.5 million ( Surbiton is on the outskirts of London ) :

£25 million house for sale, St. John's Wood, London NW8 ( the NW8 area is in North London very close to central London. Lots of Americans live in the area ) :

£30 million house for sale, Holland Park, Kensington, London SW7 ( SW7 is part of central London ) :

£28 million house, Wimbledon, London SW19 :

£200 million house, Kensington Palace Gardens, Kensington, London W8. ( Bernice Eccleston, Formula 1 motor racing used to live on this road. It is the UK's most expensive residential road ) :

Another house on Kensington Palace Gardens, ( Lots of Russian billionaires live on this road ):

Nigeria's richest woman owns several apartments in this block in Knightsbridge, London SW1. Apartments in this block “One Hyde Park” sell for £65 million per unit :

Here is a nice house in Chelsea, London SW10 for £50 million :

Most British politicians cannot afford to buy these properties. Tony Blair can now afford to buy in these areas since he got very rich, but not when he was Prime Minister.

Gold plated Bugatti sports cars is another facet of rich central London. But I need to keep this post within reason length wise. Here are a couple of pictures. They are mostly foreign number plate cars flown in from the Middle East by their owners for servicing every summer :

Now back to reality:

3 bedroom house for sale, £350000, East Ham, London E6 ( poorest area of London, yet most young people in London aren't earning enough to afford a mortgage for this property ) :

Chafford Hundred, Grays, Essex is a district just outside London, East of London E6 many Nigerians have moved to to get more for their money in terms of housing.

3 bedroom house for sale, Chafford Hundred, Grays, Essex, £419995 :

3 bedroom for sale, Chafford Hundred, £350k :

2 bedroom flat for sale, Chafford Hundred, £230k :

4 bedroom detached house for sale, £550k, Chafford Hundred, Grays, Essex :

eastOFwest:
Now back to reality:

3 bedroom house for sale, £350000, East Ham, London E6 ( poorest area of London, yet most young people in London aren't earning enough to afford a mortgage for this property ) :

Na real back to reality

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OnlyDeCapPlease:


Na real back to reality

aswear....I was literally lost in my imagination

Futureukstudent:
aswear....I was literally lost in my imagination

OnlyDeCapPlease:

nice thread

6 bedroom house, Surbiton, London £ 7.5 million ( Surbiton is on the outskirts of London ) :

Nice thread you have. Thanks for sharing these.

Might I ask, what about moving to the UK as as social worker, do you think there are opportunities for Nigerians in the profession as there are in medicine and nursing?

Shepherd's pie and steak bakes are delightful.

TheLasyBuddha:
Nice thread you have. Thanks for sharing these.

Might I ask, what about moving to the UK as as social worker, do you think there are opportunities for Nigerians in the profession as there are in medicine and nursing?

Getting a UK Masters in social work would heighten one's chances.

Mindlog:


Getting a UK Masters in social work would heighten one's chances.

Not quite. One basically need a BSc to practice in the UK. It's not like the US, which mostly requires an MSW. It's my profession. I have done my thorough findings. I only asked about job prospect for social workers.

Do not come with your deeperlife/ redeemed or Islamic mindset


Come with your brains and you will be fine.

God bless the op and the contributors

Is it advisable to get a put a British or Scottish lady in a family as a student for paper purposes?

Some of us planning to migrate to UK through student visa already know we may not get a job after graduation.

How easy is it to get a woman over there to fall deeply for a Nigerian?

So what's your advice on this?

Goddys:
Some of us planning to migrate to UK through student visa already know we may not get a job after graduation.

How easy is it to get a woman over there to fall deeply for a Nigerian?

So what's your advice on this?

Find some slightly fat oyinbo girl from the 'Shires. But you have to be willing to live/work outside the city. All you have to do is make her feel special and she'll give you all her money. Her parents will be happy she's not with a bum or freak. Make sure her parents aren't freakshow racists. If they're cool, they'll hook you up with a job and help in other ways.

If you want an African or Caribbean girl, the "easiest" way is by becoming a doctor. I suppose a PhD would work as well. But I don't know how common it is to just scoop a black Brit girl as a foreigner without papers unless you're rich, pretty, or you have h3lla game. It's not impossible though, but you will deal with more skepticism, competition, and compatibility issues.