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bukatyne:
Are V/I, Ikoyi, Lekki the only places close to V/I? Igbo Efon/Agungi/New Road/Ologolo are also close to V/I. You will easily do 40mins - 1hr if you leave home by 7am - 7:30am. Yaba is also close to V/I; had a colleague that did 30mins by 6:30am. Surulere, Iyanaworo is close, ditto Gbagada.

P.S.: if you are serious with house scouting, go to your preferred area yourself.

Okay, the locations you named (Igbo Efon/Agungi/New Road/Ologolo). If you search for 2-bedroom apartments online, you won't find any that are less than 2.5 million for 2-Bedroom that is liveable. If you do, that indicates that the home will have a lot of unresolved problems. Living in Surulere, Iyanaworo, and Gbagada equates to living in Ajah. Set a timer, leave work, and you'll be home at the same time. So there is no use in citing Iyanaworo & Co.

My point is that Lagos is absurdly expensive o, and the house-hunting experience you mentioned is comparable to fighting in World War II with house agents.

This dude's calculation is not far from the truth.

bukatyne:
I considered the new reality.

He said N180k for fuel in his car and N50k fuel for gen + N10k PHCN.

This tells me that he is going to work everyday. Yet, he uses 100litres for gen in a month.

Consider that he also rented a 2 bed at Ajah at N1.3m pa because of his home office.

So he pays huge rent, yet didn't leverage on that for proximity to the office.

People typically pay huge rent for proximity to the office which reduces cost of transportation (fuel/ bus fare) and time of commuting: he is gaining neither.

If he is all day on the road/office, how long is he at home to consume 100liters of fuel via gen and still spend N10k (about 170units of electricity)? If he doesn't go to the office everyday to justify the gen usage and home office, he wouldn't send so much fueling his car.

If the home office is for his side hustle, how long does he spend there daily considering he leaves the house by 5am everyday and returns earliest 7pm if he leaves the office 5pm sharp?

He doesn't cook at all so do not expect he has a freezer or electric stove.

There is something not adding up.

With this analysis s regards rent, It doesn't seem like you reside in Lagos at all. 1.3M is not a huge rent in Lagos Island & further, it is the median rent.

Where would you find a 2 Bedroom apartment close to office (Which I assume by the look of things would be Victoria Island / Ikoyi / Lekki) around the same 1.3M? Please check PropertyPro & other similar websites, let's see if you will can find anything like that.

The least 2 Bedroom apartment is around that environs is 3M to 5M.

In fact, if you find any house for 1.3M, please contact me, I am willing to pay that amount & sublet it to a new person.

Sheriman:
I myself has realize that 95% of techies on Twitter are frontend and backend developers UX Designers and product designers. You hardly see game developer or 3D animation artist or data visualization developer, or visual reality developer or native Android developer or IOS developer or blockchain developer. Well, i can't really blame criticize anybody because resources to gain entrance into frontend and design are cheap compared to those other tech career and their learning curve of those tech skills are somehow tough and rough compare to frontend or design.
[b]We Nigerians don't too like anything that will be rackling our brain we will abandoned it to look for easier things to do. [/b]Although, no tech career is easy but some specific tech career is for those techies who love challenge, patience, persistence and the available resources to scale through.

Na inexperience dey make you write this kain thing. Do you think you can even last a year in a tough gaming company? You will definitely burn-out.

First of all, there is less funding for gaming companies because ROI is slower and investors need money quickly, secondly too many human capital resource is needed in game development with little reward. I have worked as a Web Dev in a gaming company before & all i did was maintain the gaming website, all the animators, graphic designers & game devs will sometimes sleep at the office to continue work, while I go home & chill. Who wants to die?!

You may love challenges but you also need an enabling environment to support you, I am tired of all this "Nigerians love easy things" bla bla bla always coming up weekly on this section. Go & start a gaming or visual reality company and let's hear word.

This same Frontend that you guys think is easy, If you apply for a Frontend position now & get interview questions, you won't even be able to answer 50% of the questions thrown at you. They will give you a UI to debug &ask you to share your screen, to find out why something is not working & that is when you will know that you don't know anything. Imposter syndrome will creep in.

GREATIGB0MAN:
To her anything she isn't currently using or doing is useless and anyone doing it or using it mediocre and half-baked.


If you build a project she obviously can't build and post with same tool she's using then she'd tell you you cheated and you're copy paste individual.


Her progress since her journey began is really predictable... I bet before the year runs out she'll move to blockchain development or AI and what she's learning now will be a thing of the past, obsolete and mediocre.

Any day she finally gets a role to be a Frontend dev with JavaScript as her primary language, she'd accept it with open arms then come back to laugh at those learning anything not related to Frontend or JavaScript thinking they're wasting their time.

It's seems everything you predicted about this person is exactly as it is, once she officially gets a Frontend role, then it's all over for everyone else. We can all go & die.

But I can't lie, all her rants make this section quite interesting. Drama is needed to catch fun.

You have been contradicting yourself a lot since January, first you said you hate Backend and that it is boring & now you're back to saying everyone is doing Frontend therefore it reduces opportunities. The way you felt about backend being boring is the same way other "newbies" in the industry also feel, even though you're not even a newbie at this point anymore. All of you feel the same way hence focus on the same Frontend frameworks.

Frontend is sweet only at the beginners level, but being a senior Frontend dev full-time and writing UI Automation Test for Frontend is even a pain in the ass. Writing to make sure your UI is pixel perfect is just unnecessary manual labour.

Take note of is the type of companies who use C# / Java & those that use Golang, new age start-ups use more of Golang, banks and financial sectors use C#. Your comprehensive research was showing Python as one of the top backend languages, are you aware that is based on Machine Learning jobs, and not really backend development? Go back & check those jobs if they are really backend or just "Software Engineer".

Devdevdev:
90% is a reserved percentage. The percentage is even higher. A popular tech promoter with over 100k followers made a comment asking Nigerians to mention their tech stack and I painstakingly went through all the comments.(Over 500 comments) ALMOST everyone was a JavaScript/Frontend developer. It was shocking. And I follow a lot of these popular tech people and whenever they make these kinds of posts it's always the same responses.

I'm not making mockery of the JavaScript tech stack. I'm making mockery of the fact that almost everyone is doing it, obviously because it's "easy" to learn. I'm also criticizing it because it doesn't teach programming fundamentals which are necessary to becoming a good software developer and most people who "learn" it think they can call themselves software developers because they can make some bullshit website with react.

Please do you have a link to this twitter post?

Angelfrost:
My wife checks my phone whenever she feels like... Mostly when she has nothing else worth her time.

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Ironically, I have never looked at her messages or phone... I only see those when or if she shows me! I have no mental space for such snooping!

So your wife seldomly checks your phone to find out something fishy but you have never looked at hers, quite Interesting.

sukkot:
actually the food is reasonably priced for lekki standards but I am also painfully aware that many earn 30k a month so I try to use my words wisely so I don’t offend. If you say 3500 is cheap for food I will agree and if you say 3500 is too expensive for food I will agree . I agree with everybody .

You spent a total of 3500 in Lekki, omo you're lucky o. A plate of rice in Hard Rock Cafe is like 12,000 naira. Her restuarant is super affordable.

Dem suppose beat you comot for that restuarant.

Annahh:
The pastor should be ashamed that his member is not transformed and still dresses like a harlot even after attending his church.

You can't chase people away from the church, where would they go? Chasing them away won't solve the problems.

ibkayee:
Intentionally keeping your salary a secret from your fiancé/spouse is something I've only come across in Nigerian spaces and maybe it's just a cultural thing I will never understand and that's fine, but I find it weird.

The West have more of a credit culture where couples are more likely to be involved in binding financial agreements with legal implications so they're more compelled to be privy to each other's finances. E.g. when getting a loan for a mortgage the lender will calculate how much they're willing to give you based on the household income etc. so of course I need to know what you earn just from a practical point of view. Whereas, in Nigeria things tend to be paid in full?

I guess I understand why it may not be as common in Nigeria but I find it weird when it's intentionally hidden, even if only one person is paying the mortgage lol. If they just didn't ever ask or it just never came up in conversation that's fair, but it's the intentional awkwardness/secrecy that's strange to me

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babaYIBO:
I don’t know if it’s okay to let her know my salary range. Although I’d not be telling her specifically the amount.

Is this a good idea?

It depends on the lady, from observation, you will know someone that will be entitled to your money, so you should know by now.

Information about finance is not shared because of love or family, It is by who is not entitled.

tensazangetsu20:
LoL the guy is capping. He has been making all sorts of threads on nairaland. He's here in Nigeria but his imagination is crazy. He has other usernames he uses on nairaland too.

Okay thank you, I think I need to do my own research because I am confused why a US citizenship cannot move to other countries for long stay.

cyberkitty:
As a USA citizen, no matter where you go and hide in this Earth z every year you must return to the USA, declare your assets and pay hooge taxes.

As a USA Citizen, you can't be traveling anyhow from the USA. there are number of times you can travel in a year and how long you can spend your time outside the country. If you disobey you are on your own.

This is strange, so you mean as a US citizen, I cannot accept a job from Europe & stay there for 5 years. So I need to constantly visit the US?

Please do you have a reference for this on US Gov website?

Bloomsbury:
Please point of correction. Am not marrying an American citizen to get green card. My wife to be is an American , and so by virtue of marriage, I can also file for USA citizenship. Added benefit, Simple!

But truthfully, it's far better to be a USA permanent resident than a citizen especially if you have a passport with VISA FREE ACCESS TO THE USA.

Why on Earth Will I apply to be a USA citizen?

HOW and WHY?

pocohantas:
Mobile Gadgets are so expensive these days.
Salary earners would make provision for 6 months to a year before they can buy midrange devices. But these small kids without jobs be flaunting iPhones with multiple cameras.

Find any budget Samsung or Redmi and buy.
Don't be tempted to buy a used 64GB iPhone 7.

I think Apple is making their devices super expensive & It would get to a time people will not be able to afford it anymore. An iPhone 14 Pro Max is around 1Million+ naira, a friend in the UK had to be on 12 months credit system to be able to purchase the phone & they snatched it from her around March on the road. My samsung S10+ was 250k & I am still wondering why I should spend 1M on a single iPhone. At what point will people say enough is enough. Imagine earning 200k salary, it will take you 1 year with rigorous savings & drinking Garri to use iPhone 14.

Bayils:
The backend management system of the already existing app is web based. using html5 java JavaScript elementui redis mysql

Since the backend is done, you need someone to build you an app with a User Interface that requires mobile skills & not those you mentioned which are for backend. The choice you have is either Flutter, React native, native android & iOS.

Bayils:
Well, your assumption is not true.

Your requirement has nothing to do with mobile app developer. Check again.

Bayils:
Hi guys, a whiskey brand in London is currently in need of an experienced mobile app developer.

Developer must be well experienced in html5, java, javaScript, elementui redis & mysql.

Are you sure it wasn't a Frontend Developer they asked you to hire? Seems you're the one looking for something else with this requirement.

Bloomsbury:
Thanks for all your input. Am not trying to compete anyone here whether doordash or heaven dash. Like I said I wanted to maximize my best time studying at Georgia Tech. I don't have hopes of it being a billion dollars idea. Am not planning on raising VC funds for it at all. All am looking for if it can be a profitable idea I can be using to make passive income while studying, and something I can graduate and keep working on and sponsor myself as for H1B.

My goal is to build, make passive income till I graduate and sell the company on Microacquire, simple!!!

The startup I will be working on to possibly be a billion dollar Company is an AI bypasser similar to Conch ai

You sound like someone who doesn't even know what he is doing, you want to build a startup & you are not interested in taking time to study the companies already offering the service. A lot of companies don't even make money with their product, so this passive income you speak of, where would the money come from? Before something becomes profitable, a lot of running & organisation cost will be involved, this is a lot to handle.

If you want to build a solid product, then build it & see it grow. If it is passive income that you're worried about, forget it you won't make any profits in your first 2 years, what you will have is revenue & that's not passive income.

I am not subscribed to all this aspire to maguire stories.

PrimadonnaO:
No, there's no keeping it real.

This is the very mindset that's making a sham of marriage these days.

Everyone is getting married, ready-in-advance to walk away at the slightest challenge.

That's not what marriage is about.

Asking a question as the one OP created only opens the floor for wrong mindsets to seem okay.

Because some people will surely say nonsense.

It's not easy dealing with financial difficulties, but that's life.

Everyone in life would experience one itch or the other in their lifetime...and that's supposed to be the beauty of marriage. That through those difficulties, you've got someone who'd ride it out with you till the end.

Hmmm okay, I get you but I know what I am saying. The prayer is that God shouldn't give us a bigger test than we can handle.

People don't even walk-away, they just get frustrated & they start living apart whilst being in the same house, I have too many stories.

pacespot:
The truth is that, it is better that some ladies leave you than staying during the time of hardship, because they will rather compound the hardship for you if they stay.

Yes, this is another good scenario and it's better to separate from that woman till you find your feet, then both of you can come back together once again.

qtguru:
It is also depressing to stay with a broke man, so let's just keep it real, because a lot of us guys are dating broke spouses if you think about it.

Yep but it's not the same you know, the family & society doesn't require the same from us.

With the amount of information I have now, I won't fault any woman for leaving a broke spouse. It is what it is.

PrimadonnaO:
You guys should stop asking funny questions.

Is marriage a joke?

Or what does, for better or worse mean to some of you exactly?

Lol, but the question is very valid nau. It is very normal, men are likely to leave a sick spouse while women are likely to leave their broke spouse.

Most for better for worse usually end up in separation in Nigeria as opposed to divorce, then sometimes they get back together later on.

It is also depressing to stay with a broke spouse, so let's just keep it real.

JeffreyJunior:
She is unemployed, fine but what if she has someone housing and bankrolling her there in Abuja, say a brother, a big sister, or parents?

I don't generalize and treat every lady as call girl until she gives me reasons to besides, my first comment laid emphasis on cage free but not wild lady.

My sister was very comfortable during her postgraduate days in Abuja because my mum and her then fiancee were stupidly bankrolling her lifestyle.

There was no way one wouldn't think she was dating politicians but I knew/know what my sister was/is capable of doing just like her fiancee now hubby knew too.

I can bet you that there may be more virgins in Abuja currently than in your village.

Nice one, let's continue deceiving each other. I will say no more.

JeffreyJunior:
If I were the one involved, the first lady might have acted differently towards me.

I'm not saying she is better than the second or vice versa but action begets reaction.

The same lady probably has someone she treats better now.

One thing is certain. She wouldn't have visited him and most importantly passed that sensitive comment to him if she was not interested.

Telling him that shows she is an open minded person and that's one character every man should go after in a woman, not someone that will call you 100 times everyday asking the same question of "you don chop?".

All of you are just funny, whether it is you o, another person or the OP. The case here is what is a 30 years old Abuja lady who is extroverted coping with being unemployed in FCT? This lady in question came down to Lagos to analyse her specimen(the OP) & she saw that he was not worth the catch. She has moved on to better options.

A clear red flag being white washed as open-minded

I don't know why this thread makes me laugh out loud

greatopec:
2)I love cars and driving. Was thinking of getting a good car for Uber business.
Current situation- I have not been able to gather enough money to buy a car for Uber or personal use.
4)Self development. I had interest in programming so I decided to learn coding and all that. I started with free code camp and also this thread by iyenimofe on nairaland has been so helpful https://www.nairaland.com/1383359/learn-web-design-live-nairaland/6#17571611
The issue I have progressing is that of enough data subscription to watch more tutorials.

Focus on just one or two goals, that is how you will achieve it. Your goals are too much, calm down & re-focus.

The best way to curb scammers is to give regular people power to moderate this section of the forum, by the time their SPAM is deleted daily for one month straight, they would stop posting SPAM.

Divoc19:
What God Has Joined Together, No Man Put Asunder To Is Family.
See, you can choose your spouse or partner to create/procreate a family with. But, you can't choose your family members. A man/woman can lose a partner to the cold hands of death and get remarried within a few months or years but your family members irrespective of your relationship with that member can never be replaced by another.

If parents can adopt this common sense into their household principle then, things will start getting better in our society.

Parents should learn how to teach children to accept their differences as siblings and give unconditional love each other.

Edited: Your family is your history

What you're saying is rare but possible, I have seen it where people, couples, siblings etc loving each other unconditionally. The occurrence of this is probably like 1 out of 100.

I am not one of those who has the capability to love unconditionally but I cannot deny the reality that I have actually seen it happen to people I know.

Kobojunkie:
Unconditional love ? Where is this coming from?

I know this is anti-popular, but i have seen Unconditional love amongst couples. Even though I myself have not experienced it & don't particularly look forward to it, but I have seen couples go through hell and back, stayed together against all odds.

tensazangetsu20:
He might not have one but he might have PR. With how he frequents the UK and assets there he would definitely have an ILR.

Hmm that's true, never thought about that.