Well,This is my first time posting on naija land and is been overwhelming reading people stories and experiences about moving back....I understand that is a very challenging decision for someone that have lived abroad for a while but i want to tell you guys my story maybe that will help convey my point on this

When i was younger,i was always fascinated with going to America for no justifiable reason but just for the fact that i grow up with the stories that all the successes in life can easily come by going to America ...Then in the late 2005,I graduated from Nnamdi Azikiwe University awka which is where my journey started.....But i originally grow up in the city of Onitsha with very little or no life experience but surrounded by business man and younger folks that believe going to abroad is all that matters in life....A lot of my mate as the time left to Europe....I cant even count how many.....Mostly Poland,UK,Russia just European union and a whole lot of them keep close touch with pictures and all that....Sorry for me....No money,poor background.All i have to work with with my heart,my struggles and my dreams....

Then right after i finish my 4 years degree in unizik...I decided is time to move,with the little money i saved up in school and hassling...I work my Youth service and luckily it worked out,I got posted to Lagos camp....Then life started changing so fast.After one month in camp,I was luckily posted to do my service year with Zenith bank and as a Youth Service member,Life was good and but deep inside my heart,I always believe i was missing something and guess what....Moving to abroad...Again i wasn't too lonely when i was in lagos,My girl friend as of the time when i was in school was equally serving in Eco bank in lagos too...So i was happy been in a bigger city Lagos but not really too happy ...I had one room apartment in Ikeja and things were all good...I was making 40k every month and it was okay for a starter...After my one year service,I was given a permanent position and my salary grow to like 120k off the back....Never was enough for me to just decided that am done with going to abroad because i will always chat to my friends in Europe and all they say is life was good....so in 2007,like 6 to 7 months of been a full time staff in Zenith,i met one American lady that came to a conference in lagos and it happen that she came to zenith bank to withdraw money i paid her and we just started talking and exchange our numbers....We went out couple of times and it was all good...Been so desperate to travel abroad and been the US,I choose that option and before you know it....I got an Immigrant visa,Resign my job and moved to the US....Dream come thru,Then after couple of years....I started missing home......In 2011...I became a US citizen and life was beautiful and i decided to fly to UK to see my old friends that i have a close relationship with...Life was horrible for them when i got there in UK....Most of them after like 6 to 7 years shares small apartment that is far less the apartment i stayed in when i was in Unizik as a student....They all do all kind of jobs i cant ever imagine doing back in Nigeria and even the ones that happens to go to school in UK,and Poland,still don't have a decent job...

Then when i came back to United states after that vacation,i started becoming so obsessed with the thought of moving back home....Back in the US,i didn't have the best of job but i can easily work and make a decent $2000 in a month..Live in a very decent size 3 bed room condo with my wife and can travel around the world and i drive a very nice 2008 Camry back in the state....So to me...Life is good ....America gave me a home but ...Nigeria is still a fatherland...The freedom we had back home was extra ordinary.....The most beautiful in the whole universe....But comes with a lot of price...security,good health and alot more..Think about this......Never know that a healthy man have to still go to the hospital for checks up till i came to America...lol...but still ,I know Nigeria was home and i was willing to try and atleast try and touch some life and educate some folks about western world and try and see if i can make some folks even if just one person understand that life is the same every where in the world.. UK,Canada and Germany,United state....Is the same just as it is in Nigeria...

The point am trying to make is we need to start educating out young folks that it doesn't matter how you started in life or where you are in life,It doesn't matter how your stories is in life ....Nigeria is a home and You can make it if you are willing to try...Mine was just shaped differently and .....Hey...I tell you..I AM ONE OF THE LUCKIEST AND IN THE MIDDLE OF MANY...........My story might not be yours and yours might be harder than mine,No matter which way it is...we need to embrace it and at the best get the education our money can afford... for the folks abroad....Even here in america.....I can only say one thing...The longer you stay abroad,The harder moving back home is....I met a lot of Nigerian here in America,a lot of our stories are different (Mortgage issues,Family,Money,papers and alot) and so is our dreams ,so as it is in UK,Canada,Europe and all the places i have been....As much as all our stories are different on how we ended up here....I never met anybody that said he or she doesn't wanna move back to Nigeria and you know why.....Most of us are tired of living just like who we are truly not.......We all are just afraid of starting all over again and till you overcome that spirit...You can never ever be able to move back home....I can only say just as it is you move to this different countries,You can still move back home and make a different in peoples life...Is never an easy decision ....A lot of struggle and hard times,We all made it thru all and so as it is when we will move back....

This is 2015,I am yet to move back home and i have came to a conclusion,that no matter the amount of money you make or have.....If you are afraid of starting all over again,You wont ever be able to move back to move back.....I can only say try and have a reason of moving back and make sure is something you wanna do,Not forced or move because peter and Paul did...Make sure that's your choice and prepare just as much as you can and....So you can be able to deal with it....Me and my wife is gonna be moving back to Nigeria some time this year and we will try and open up some business back in Nigeria no matter how small it is just to have some sense of responsibility and keep busy..And try and open a foundation to educate Nigerian youths of about Self Realization and Youth Empowerment on education ..All and all...I give God the glory and Hey...Good luck