DisGuy:
$2000 should be enough for a solo 1-2 months holiday to see and feel the pulse of the country business and employment

BluFlyBoy:


Coming back would be a one way trip. I don’t yet have permanent resident status.

BluFlyBoy:


Coming back would be a one way trip. I don’t yet have permanent resident status.

blank:
@OP, can you explore moving to Australia or Canada? They have pretty decent entry requirements and the standards are similar to what you get in US.

BluFlyBoy:
The responses to this thread have been very negative. No I don’t have a green card. I’m working on one but the process has gotten very complicated that I’m just contemplating cutting my losses. The attitude on this thread is different from my high school friends who schooled here then went back. Most of them are positive, but some of them are more privileged than I do, so maybe they are not seeing the reality of the country.

BluFlyBoy:
The responses to this thread have been very negative. No I don’t have a green card. I’m working on one but the process has gotten very complicated that I’m just contemplating cutting my losses. The attitude on this thread is different from my high school friends who schooled here then went back. Most of them are positive, but some of them are more privileged than I do, so maybe they are not seeing the reality of the country.

iRyan:
I know there's no place like home but when home isn't inhabitable you can find someplace else and call it home. Everyday thousands of people come into this country from all over the world to call this place home.
My job took me to Nigeria where I lived for two years before coming back to the US. Nigeria may not be as bad as western Media paints it to be, however it isn't a country I'd advise anybody to live in. Every part of the country is relatively messed up, morally bankrupt and irredeemably backward, with retrograded mindset set of people from a radicalized north to an extremely Christianized south. Corruption thrives in the Nigerian oxygen, every Nigerian seems to breathe it in without even knowing - thank goodness i didn't catch the bug... The system is broken beyond repair. Think about ur kids and how unfavorable the system would be to them. I have never seen a government so apathetic and nonchalant to the plight of her people. The life expectancy of the average Nigerian is very low compared to other western countries that's because people die from treatable illnesses due to a failed health care system, majority do not have access to good health care...
your savings in your 401k may allow you get a nice apartment in a middle-class area but remember that, that isn't the real Nigeria, the real Nigeria is outside your home, the society you interacts with, the deplorable roads you drive on when you go see a friend or relative that lives on the other side of town, the corrupt judicial system where the word justice is nothing but a farce, the society your kids interacts with - i could go on and on - unless you wanna live in a gated neighborhood with zero interaction with the outside world then discard this advise. If you are looking for more money investing in the country is a good idea but living in it is not. you can invest from here, you don't have to relocate.
Think it through thoroughly sleep on it over and over again to avoid taking a decision you will regret for the rest of your life.

AngelicBeing:
1000 likes, I currently live outside Nigeria as well but I do visit from time to time, you have aptly captured the jungle called Nigeria, 2 of my friends have similar profile like the Op, one lived in Norway and the other one in the US, they both called me years back about their decision to move back to Nigeria because of lack of residency issue in their respective countries, l warned them not to go back to permanently live in Nigeria but to stay put in their respective countries, to cut my narrative short, they ignored my advice and relocated back to Nigeria, as I post this, they are suffering in Nigeria, they arrived Nigeria with enough cash, chains of degrees and professional certification but all the places they applied for jobs, none worked, is either they are offered slave wage or told they will get back to them, I feel for them but I warned them before they went back to Nigeria but they ignored, at Op, I will advise you to remain in the US because we have so many foreign trained Nigerians with your kind of profiles suffering due to lack of jobs, the job market is saturated, most companies prefer to employ ND or school certificate holders and pay them 30,000naira or less than a sound foreign trained Nigeria, although there is exemption to every rule.. I will not advice you to go back to that useless dead rotten jungle called Nigeria, l travel to Nigeria atleast once or twice yearly, no difference, it is the same bulshit all over the country, few people who are making it are either connected to the government or politicians, Nigeria is a dead country, l am only a visitor to the jungle because of my family members, I can never ever live in that useless jungle called Nigeria, the decision and choice is yours

iRyan:
easy with the diatribe lol... The situation of the country saddens me. Nigeria is my fatherland but I can't say I'm proud to call it my home.

AngelicBeing:
1000 likes, I currently live outside Nigeria as well but I do visit from time to time, you have aptly captured the jungle called Nigeria, 2 of my friends have similar profile like the Op, one lived in Norway and the other one in the US, they both called me years back about their decision to move back to Nigeria because of lack of residency issue in their respective countries, l warned them not to go back to permanently live in Nigeria but to stay put in their respective countries, to cut my narrative short, they ignored my advice and relocated back to Nigeria, as I post this, they are suffering in Nigeria, they arrived Nigeria with enough cash, chains of degrees and professional certification but all the places they applied for jobs, none worked, is either they are offered slave wage or told they will get back to them, I feel for them but I warned them before they went back to Nigeria but they ignored, at Op, I will advise you to remain in the US because we have so many foreign trained Nigerians with your kind of profiles suffering due to lack of jobs, the job market is saturated, most companies prefer to employ ND or school certificate holders and pay them 30,000naira or less than a sound foreign trained Nigeria, although there is exemption to every rule.. I will not advice you to go back to that useless dead rotten jungle called Nigeria, l travel to Nigeria atleast once or twice yearly, no difference, it is the same bulshit all over the country, few people who are making it are either connected to the government or politicians, Nigeria is a dead country, l am only a visitor to the jungle because of my family members, I can never ever live in that useless jungle called Nigeria, the decision and choice is yours

BluFlyBoy:


I wanted to avoid falling into illegal status here in the states. But the description you've given is making me reconsider. I'm pained and at a loss of what to do, but it looks like staying here is the right thing to do for now.

Alcatraz005:


Please don’t come back. I am a lawyer here in naija and I am ready to stake all to leave this hellhole. From one brother to another, DO NOT come back. We might go to war soon sef because the citizens might go against themselves seeing that we have made a mistake being together as a nation for almost 6 decades.

Pidgin2:


Abuja is not the only state where he can get soft landing, I live in Lagos and have averagely 20hrs light daily plus neat environ e bi like say u no dry com home often. In fact, many more States are easier to live in and more quiet than Abuja

BluFlyBoy:


I wanted to avoid falling into illegal status here in the states. But the description you've given is making me reconsider. I'm pained and at a loss of what to do, but it looks like staying here is the right thing to do for now.

stacyadams:
how did we get here ?

Still wondering baba.

Pidgin2:


Abuja is not the only state where he can get soft landing, I live in Lagos and have averagely 20hrs light daily plus neat environ e bi like say u no dry com home often. In fact, many more States are easier to live in and more quiet than Abuja