lastkingsman:


You mean the shege no respect skin colour?

Na wa oh

On a serious note, I can't believe people on PR should be finding it difficult to at least start earning from the system in almost one year.

Some of the things I am reading here are shocking. If na student visa I can understand because of recent cost of living, pending tuition fees and work hour restrictions but PR? Na wa oh

The job market is no respecter of PR or citizens these days.

tensazangetsu20:


I have a friend here from Canada and she said she's moving to the US immediately she's done with what she's doing in Chile. She speaks about Canada like the way we Nigerians speak of Nigeria. If a white blonde girl with blue eyes is speaking this way hmmm

Normal things. Most citizens only see the ills of their country. Americans are leaving US in droves and complain alot about the US.

Voltron007:
1* is warm? Well, me I can’t come and go and die 😅
Despite wearing 3 sweaters plus a winter jacket looking like a terrorist, I’m still freezing.

Ha! All these layers for fall? Wetin you go wear for January?

ednut1:
Winter activities resuming

Deer hunting on the bucket list. Make no body con cry this year that Canada is boring o.

I tried this skating thing last winter and failed miserably . Got an instructor and paid for a package. Did 2 classes and gave up. They have been calling me to come and complete my lessons. I don dash them the remaining money. I cannot come and die. Nobody will say I did not try.

I shall be living vicariously through my kids' eyes.

AirBay:

Yes, there are. The homeless and junky ones, $20-$50

A pack of cigarettes or a roll of MJ sef. . .

On a serious note though, you guys should be careful in your dealings with women here. Accusations of sexual assault are not uncommon and it will be your word against theirs even if na junkie.

Enculer2:
Hello All,

Does anyone have any experience with kids in a Catholic School, preferably in Ontario? Also can you get Catholic schools that offer French immersion? Our kids speak French and we do not want them to lose the language.

Looking to rent in the Durham Region. I have received some not too good reviews about Oshawa. Any info on neighboring towns in the region would be appreciated- Whitby, Ajax, etc.

Regards.

My kids go to Catholic schs and have been going there since we came to Canada. So far, no issues. There are French immersion Catholic schools, however, they are not as many as English immersion so they may be farther from where you live or they may not even be one in your neighborhood.

You might want to research where they are located in your city of choice and rent near there.

I've visited Oshawa. Just like most other cities, there are some rough neighborhoods and some good ones. I personally prefer Whitby: calmer, nicer and mostly middle class residential areas. I don't know much about Ajax.

Honestly, there is no bad city. Choose a city that is most convenient for the needs of your family (accesibility to jobs in your field, good schs for your kids, affordable rent etc) and research good neighborhoods in that city.

Omobolarin:
Hi guys,
Does anyone know the waiting time to get Nigerian passport renewed in ottawa

Do you mean time between when you get captured and when you receive the passport? Mine took 6 weeks earlier this year. Their printing machine was bad though. May have been quicker otherwise.

I have been following this thread since the beginning and here are my 2 cents.

Nigerians in Nigeria so desperately want to believe the narrative that most Nigerians abroad are suffering; that the only jobs available to us are menial jobs, washing plates, and cleaning bums. Living from paycheck to paycheck. It makes them feel better about themselves and the situations they have found themselves in that country. I do not bother arguing. I just let them wallow in their acclaimed "comfort".

Abroad is what you make of it. I always say that if you see someone who is here legally and has been here for a few years and is suffering. . . it is entirely their fault. The system is set up in a way that you can literally achieve whatever you want. It is not rocket science. You can shoot for the star. If you're in a career that is not paying enough, switch careers. No one considers your age here. Ask questions. Network with Nigerians and non-Nigerians who have these high-paying jobs. They will show you the way. Go back to school if that is what it takes. Get those certifications and you will be glad you did. The higher you are on that corporate ladder, the more you make and the less stressful your job actually is.

And no, this OP is not the exception. There are plenty of immigrants doing really well here. We came here a little less than 5 years ago and now make about 20k per month after tax as a family and we are not the only ones in our circle making that much. We save/invest more than 50% of our income. We were also high earners in Nigeria but I cannot remember any month we could save more than 20% of our salaries. To top it all off, these jobs are not stressful. Some of us work from the comfort of our homes. I dare say, we are all comfortable and not one of us regrets leaving Nigeria.

OP, congratulations. I have been following your journey and can tell you that the sky is just the beginning for you and your family. You have the right mindset and I see you soaring so high, which gives me so much joy. Do not try to convince people on here about your pay. Keep documenting here for you to look back on someday and see how far you have come.

atutupoyoyo2211:
It is impossible to save that amaount on just your normal pay. I put that target cos I hard so much overtime a week. I worked about 90 to 100 hours a week. But I wont advise that, it a lot of work and stress.

100 hours?? I feel so lazy now

greatlifeis89:
Please check my airbnb, if you or someone you know needs temporary accommodation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

https://airbnb.com/h/entire-suite-with-deck-patio-and-private-backyard

Beautiful Airbnb! Well done.

marinaojo:
hi, this is to update that i took your advice @SlowlybtSurely and quickly applied to Lakehead University and i was offered a seat few days ago into the compressed program. if not for your response to my post that day i would not have applied. i also thank @19CannyMum and @salford and everyone that contributed that day to that topic as it ll also help others. You are all awesome. Stay SAFE.

Hi. Just thought about you. How's the program going? You should be rounding up soon. God speed.

Vanessaokoh:
Hello good day everyone
I will be moving to Canada next year please what can I estimate on furnishing an apartment and where can I get affordable prices for beds table etc in Manitoba Brandon �

Do not underestimate Facebook marketplace and kijiji. We bought most of our neatly used furniture from there when we first landed. They were affordable, sturdy and served us well! New sturdy furniture will be pricey.

We bought smaller items (kitchenware) from dollarama and value village. Then a few items (blender, microwave, electric kettle etc) from Walmart.

ednut1:
Fall

My favourite season!

ipobcannibals:
You don’t have to be an engineer to apply. You only need to be a Canadian resident/citizen and apply as an apprentice in f you don’t have any experience in any of the trades. Once you get into one the unions, you will be trained and fully absolved into the union in 18 months. You can still earn while training, though you get paid the apprentice rate, which is even higher than the average minimum wage. After 18 months, you start receiving your full benefits/pay rate.

Solid info. Do you know what the pay is like after being fully absolved?

OP can also consider truck driving. I've heard they are well paid.

Chenkes:
I and at least 5 people I know have adopted kids with one or both parents alive in the course of this journey. We all have our PR, with the exception of one person awaiting approval.

I personally adopted two kids and their parents are alive and well. I have FULL custody.

The OP can go ahead to legally adopt the child. Avoid Lagos sha. E get why. Use other states with less traffic.

Thank you for this! I'm glad this is doable. A judge in Lagos refused to grant my friend full custody and quoted that the child's parents were still alive, so I just thought that was the law.

Motunmart:
Dear All.
I have a daughter that has been staying with me since she was very little. I feel very bad leaving her now. I have her birth certificate in me and my husband"s name just done this year. can i include her as my daughter ?

I'm conflicted as a parent cos I know how difficult it is to leave one's child, biological or not. I've heard some people have gotten away with including that child in their application as their biological child, however, it is a serious offense if the Canadian government finds out. Two things can lead to them finding out; they could request a DNA test if they smell something fishy (e.g age disparity between that child and your other children, age of that child vis-a-vis you and your partner's age etc). Secondly, the child's biological parents (or even anyone who knows about the plan) may contact IRCC and they (IRCC) will launch an investigation.

The safer option will be to legally adopt that child in Nigeria before coming. The problem with that though is that the court will usually not grant you full guardianship/custody if the child's biological parents are alive, even if the biological parents agree to that arrangement. This will make it impossible to add her to your application as IRCC will require that you have full guardianship/custody.

If you know your way around Nigerian legal system and can somehow get a judge that can grant you full guardianship, that will be your best bet.

cochtrane:

Not to veer off topic or be "that guy", but this your course is a very good platform for switching into data science/analytics with the potential to double that pay of a credit risk analyst.

This is so true. I know someone who made a similar switch and had a significant bump in pay. He took the Google analytics course offered by Google. Took him a few months and was very affordable.

@Emmasonic4me you can look into taking that course when you're done with sch.

slydog:

Guys, finally got the TD role, same dept but two steps below, a Lil less than 65k. Resumption is on my 59th day in Canada.
I guess I'll start here and build.
Thank you for all your encouragement.

Yaass! Congratulations! The most important thing is to get your foot in the door. From there, the only way you're going is up. Your growth will be faster than you think.

NuCypher:

So, you see, they didn't dump us. We dumped them, lmao. Who cares about their standards? Who said they had standards? You probably didn't read my earlier post well enough to figure that out. So, I'm here ruffled, unable to understand how that came into the discussion. There are no standards, shim! There are just holes.

Hundreds of wise Nigerian men in Canada know to go back to Nigeria to pick an angel, and that's how it will continue to be. That much is certain.

Go back to Nigeria to pick an angel?? Eiya

Let me know when you have valid points worth an intellectual discourse.

ednut1:
i never said this was applicable to me tho. Was not speaking in absolute too, of course there are still good girls and guy. Threatened by which success lol.some of these Babes are living above their means too, any man that has sense and is focused on investments and buying houses will naturally avoid marrying them. You say they rather die single than—-, maybe they have told you what they go thru with their sanity and mental health. Applies to guys too alot of them are depressed from this relationship dynamics.

You supported the original poster, hence my response. I don't know where you're seeing women who live above their means. The single women I know earn honest wages, invest their coins and some are even already planning towards their retirement.

You talk about mental health like the married ones are shielded from it. You have not heard that married women are the most depressed abi? Let's not deceive ourselves jare.

Allegory:
Loneliness is still better than some kind of men out there. Whether single Nigerian women in Canada want to LovePeddler or place ads, it’s still their money and their body. Let them do their business in peace or suffer their loneliness in peace. It is still better than marrying someone you don’t like or barely know.

Thank you! They say the ladies here have too much standards and that is why they tell their mothers to find them a wife from home. The so called village girls come here and show them pepper. In their middle age, they are divorced, forced to pay child support for kids who do not care about them and later ending up miserably in nursing homes with no wife or kids visiting them.

They come with their Naija alpha male mentality to a society that recognizes women as humans too and they can't handle that. The one thing they have against women, power/money, is now put in both genders hands and it frustrates them.

ednut1:
some don dey wise tho. They are dropping their ‘unrealistic standards/expectations’ small small. The adamant ones continue o. The depression and loniness is biting hard sha ( more on the female side). A man must not be earning six figures. Have a nice car, live in an expensive condo and lavish on you plus being religious before he is a husband material. Some high earners have lost their jobs this month for example. If you can , marry before coming here. I don talk my own lol

This is all in your head! The few single ladies in my circle just want decent men and they understand that the aforementioned are just add ons. If you have a good head on your shoulders, have a plan for your future and you work hard, we all know these things are achievable in Canada. In this country, what you put in is what you get.

These women are not asking to be catered for. They are asking to be met half way by the men. What is so wrong with that? I noticed that many Naija men here have low self esteem because the ladies here seem to be doing well for themselves and are not begging you for money to buy cream as that was the bane of y'alls existence in Nigeria. Y'all are threatened by the women's successes instead of working hard to achieve yours.

Again, they've chosen to rather die single than settle for mediocre marriages. And I dare say, they have my utmost respect!

NuCypher:

You never see anything. The epidemic of loneliness among Nigerian women in Canada has entered epic proportions and we are just seeing the beginnings of it. Some women who had bright chances of getting married in Nigeria are suddenly watching their chances dim to nothingness as they live in the suburbs of Brampton, Etobicoke and environs. They are at the near bottom of the barrel, not looked at by their fellow Nigerian men and certainly not by Caucasians who find them less attractive. Add to that the fact that many don’t or won’t go back to Nigeria to marry for fear of being exploited by red-eyed local Nigerian men, you get a veritable stewpot of chronic loneliness seasoned with several nights of intense crying and an escape as a content creator on YouTube where they hope to enjoy more visibility.

The Nigerian woman in Canada is near done. Now it’s an ad on Nairaland. Soon it will be billboards on Canadian roads. This is the result you get when you japa totally unprepared, thinking it elevates your life and not knowing that a whole new set of challenges is just lying in wait.

Who hurt you? Who rejected you? Y'all still play this "women with standards are going to die alone" game? It's honestly getting old and many of these women are not fazed anymore, and have refused to settle for boys like you. Is it not better to die single than call someone like you a husband?

Can you see how bitter you come across? You think men here are not lonely? They say Nigerian women have too much standards, would you not like your daughter (if you ever have one) to have standards? Would you honestly want your daughter to settle for someone like you?

Some women were raised right and have refused to settle for just anything. Leave them alone! If they perish, they perish.

moneymagnetca:

Plus $5k - $10k for closing costs.

Yes.

ptoall1000:

Pls can you explain? What if the house costs 250k. How much is the deposit

$12,500

Maggiespecial:
Hello good day and happy Sunday
Please I want to ask

If you want to buy a house in Canada (Mortgage)
How many percentage is the down payment if you are new and don't have any credit score yet

For first time buyers, usually 5% on the first $500,000, then 10% on the remaining amount.

oluayebenz:
I met someone today who clearly denied his nationality... When your accent, looks clearly shows Nigerian.

But the issue is why are Nigerians in diaspora denying their origin?

Majority of Nigerian living oversea has messed up and tarnished the issue of Nigeria. This people misused precious opportunities giving to them by the oyinbos.

In SA, they are known for drugs and all sort of rubbish.
Infact all the country in the world won't want to associate once they knew you are a Nigerian, even some African countries

Yet we kept on blaming the government.

Even the ones back home has spoiled the country image internationally.
Calling her Zoo and all sort.

Are Nigerians abroad doing any better? NO

These people need to change their ways.
It's not few Nigerians, but Majority.

Misery sure loves company. Please speak for yourself and for the people in your circle.

^^^Beautiful pictures.

Babygirlll:
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Hey slowlybtsurely, I really hope you would see this message. I recently got my PPR, and I chose St. Albert as where I'd be staying in Alberta (PNP). I'm really scared now because everyone around me is either going to Edmonton or Calgary. I saw where you mentioned that you were thinking about going to St. Albert some years back (2017) but I couldn't quote the message because the thread was closed. Please, I'd need any insight that you can give. Did you still move to St. Albert? You also mentioned that you were in the health section, I'm a Medical Laboratory Scientist too. Please, I would be looking forward to your response.(

Jesu! Sis, I don't even remember considering St. Albert that year oo Chai! We ended up in Toronto. I don't know anyone in St Albert but I read it's a lovely place to raise a family. Before now, many immigrants shunned smaller cities because of job opportunities, but that has significantly improved with the ability to work from home these days. If I were landing now, I'd probably head to a small town. Do not fret. Nigerians are everywhere and I'm sure they will have a community there. Do let me know what you want to know about the health sector. You could also DM. God speed.

Allegory:

There are several ways to pay CAD and sending money to a stranger on the internet isn’t one of them. Wow kor!

Hmmn. You know what? You're actually right. I seem to have lost all my Naija street smartness; guilty until proven innocent.

But, what if he's genuinely trying to help? Na wa.

Daewoods:
Since I'm here in Toronto, as my way of giving back to this thread, amidst the issues of Nigerian naira card limit and PFL for chargebacks, if you need help paying for admissions, school fees, tuition deposits, visa applications, you can reach out to me, I will be doing so FREE of charge for you, no profit or gain in it for me or as a business, just wish to help out.
Send me a mail I'm willing to assist, thanks.

Wow! This is huge! Thank you!!

buchito1:
Hi guys. It feels so good typing this!!! After more than 5yrs of following this beautiful thread...

Yaayyyyyy!!!! Thank you God!

I'd finally be coming to Vancouver, British Columbia, by ending of next month March

And would appreciate all the help I can get to settling in well.

Thank you so much guysss

Congrats! I've heard how beautiful BC is. Enjoy!