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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Explorers(m): 10:55am On Oct 01, 2018
SweetyZinta:


Someone help me tell Explorers I have not heard from him in ages. I hope all is well?

Sister am doing great o.

Wish to experience life outside this continent also, Beautiful countries, people, culture, landscapes, alps, winter, glaciers, northern light and so on.

But you know, no money, no visa.

Just hoping for God's Favor/Grace

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Rubyventures: 11:03am On Oct 01, 2018
LarryBee1k:
Please Accept This Post

Have you ever traveled out of Nigeria? Is it better than Nigeria, if given the chance, will you stay there forever?
Share your experience!



Any place out of Nigeria is better than Nigeria, even Syria = Fact
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by ednut1(m): 11:14am On Oct 01, 2018
Amberon1:
You should have stated your experience and left it at that without trying to deride Christianity as if it is the reason for Nigeria's underdevelopment. There are more Christians in America than Nigeria yet it is the most developed country in the world.
u and i know what is being practiced here is not christianity . At least u worshiped there too
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by ibrahimovic303: 11:15am On Oct 01, 2018
Currently live in Finland, as usual, the basics of life are readily affordable to everyone, both the boredom and the antisocial lifestyle can drive one crazy here...Imagine me straight up from Festac to this cold and unfriendly country, but na Naija wahala make us run...Visited Norway last year, just a little upgrade on Finland...On transit via Istanbul and Doha....Should be in Vienna soon...Naija is bleeped up anyway, run with all your might from there

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Nobody: 11:16am On Oct 01, 2018
Z4Gardell:
Talking about living outside of Nigeria... It all depends on what you want 1. If you want to see beautiful places yeah most of them are very beautiful 2. If you want to hustle for money,good education, good health care, and enabling environment yeah most of the places in the world you can get them ; hustle-and make good money as per exchange rate. 3. If you want a place to feel like home no no you can’t get it any where in the world except Nigeria 4. If you want a place to see enchanting faces no no you can’t get it, Nigeria is the only place in the world you see enchanting faces... This is deeper than what it means it only when you relocate you will understand this 5. If you are looking for a place to be welcomed no no you can’t get it only in Nigeria you get welcomed... you will not understand this only when you relocate. 6. Looking for a place to be free...then stay in Nigeria 7. Looking for a family for togetherness and oneness it is only in Nigeria you get to feel and see such... this is something you won’ t know until you get there and you mom or brother tell you that you have to contribute to the house upkeep when they know you don’t have a job. 8. Looking for friends to stand by you then stay in Nigeria... cos over here I laugh in Swahili ki ki ki . 9. Are you looking for help Laughs!!! Then it is only in Nigeria you get free help... Nigeria is where some one you do not really know can give you 10k just to help you. I will stop at 10. Nigeria and her hospitality is unimaginable, not to be compared and can never be seen or get anywhere in the world. It all depends on what you are looking for outside of Nigeria


As a Nigerian who has lived in Europe since childhood, this comment here best describes how I feel about europe .

I'm so homesick and in the process of returning back home.

My only desire is to see a Nigeria that looks like Europe, we should never glorify other people's countries whilst we allow ours to rot away .


Let's be honest most countries are sick to death of Nigerian immigrants/ irritants.

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by COOL10(m): 11:18am On Oct 01, 2018
IstandWitBuhari:


hi bro, I will be relocating to S. A for studies in 2019, how is life in Johannesburg and S. A as a whole?

is the country progressive and improving or is it retrogressing like Nigeria ?

are there jobs there ?
. See your name,see your comment. Hypocrite undecided

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Rubyventures: 11:25am On Oct 01, 2018
freecocoa:
This thread really makes me sad to the point I feel my eyes watering. Anyone trying to defend Nigeria by saying ‘it isn’t so bad’ is only lying to themself, a country where you can’t boast of complete 5 hours power supply in a day, what am I even saying? Some placed haven’t seen power in months, a country where people die for lack of police report for proper medical attention, a country where it’s leaders travel to other countries for medical care, a country where you have no emergency response unit for whatever, a country where you get laughed at for being duped or stolen from, heck! You get blamed and called a mugu for being a victim of a corrupt system, I feel very sad honestly especially today, and someone will telll me happy independence? May that independence kee you there, nonsense!

You have said it all. Anyone that sends me happy independence - its return to sender.
grin grin
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Ishilove: 11:31am On Oct 01, 2018
islandmoon:
damn, let not brag, out of all, common benin republic here, the police are well behaved, no guns, whistle instead and the citizens are well behaved, when police blow whistle , the driver will park and get ready to be arrested, police coming to arrest just one person at seconji and every body locked their shops and ran away, they were afraid and respect their police, even the woman selling food to us wanted to pack and Nigerians were busy saying, where you dey go? sell food for me jor, every body ran, except Nigerians, the police met us eating, na me slapped person way go call police, wetin concern me ? why I go run? put fried turkey for me jor.
I have a sibling who lives there. He says the police are feared even more than soldiers. He says Nigerians are notorious over there. There's a particular market, Missebong market that is dominated by Igbo traders. The traders have been chased away more than 10 times, but each time they turn their backs, the traders are back there. The police are even tired of chasing them away and have left them to keep trading
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Ishilove: 11:32am On Oct 01, 2018
Freedem:



As a Nigerian who has lived in Europe since childhood, this comment here best describes how I feel about europe .

I'm so homesick and in the process of returning back home.

My only desire is to see a Nigeria that looks like Europe, we should never glorify other people's countries whilst we allow ours to rot away .


Let's be honest most countries are sick to death of Nigerian immigrants/ irritants.
You better stay where you are and don't let sentiments push you to return to this shithole

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by ibrahimovic303: 11:38am On Oct 01, 2018
Ishilove:

You better stay where you are and don't let sentiments push you to return to this shithole

That is the truth my dear...Even with the anti social life I nor dey come back ni...Before I left Naija, I saw lots of Europe returnees who relocated back to Naija out of sentiments are were regretting their decisions, if you must return, return as a KING....

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Nobody: 11:43am On Oct 01, 2018
ibrahimovic303:
Currently live in Finland, as usual, the basics of life are readily affordable to everyone, both the boredom and the antisocial lifestyle can drive one crazy here...Imagine me straight up from Festac to this cold and unfriendly country, but na Naija wahala make us run...Visited Norway last year, just a little upgrade on Finland...On transit via Istanbul and Doha....Should be in Vienna soon...Naija is bleeped up anyway, run with all your might from there
My dear na boredom and loneliness fear me pass in relocating to d abroad. As in ehh wic neighbor house I go dey enter to go gist, chop better afang soup with periwinkles...where d joint where I for go sit down to chop boli and peppered fish. � this life ehhn

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Nobody: 11:45am On Oct 01, 2018
AnthonyAk:
Living in Vancouver, BC, on my toilet as I type this. Life expensive, u work for everything u have.

Ur levels depends on how hard u work and if ur educated.

I work as a software engineer, lost my job in may but by God's grace found a job and starting tomorrow. I make good money but it's not enough to ever buy a home here.

I live alone in a pretty nice apartment in a decent part of town, I can afford anything that I want beyond real estate.

I contribute to my girls school fees so she can graduate and get a decent paying job. Maybe then I'll get married.

I also help some friends and siblings back in nigeria when ever I can.

I really should goto church more because God has always been faithful through out my time here.

There are no handouts here, alot of Africans come here and lose their way to cheap jobs and hustles.

Some work hard, stay in school, graduate, apply themselves in their careers stay and flourish.

Some come and flex and have a good time but they never last long. Sooner or later they are forced out because of immigration.

Others fall into unfortunate circumstances and are forced to leave.

There are others that get their papers but given they never graduated, they can never get good paying jobs

Moving bk to Nigeria as soon I become a citizen next year.

The idea is to land a position at Microsoft, IBM, Google or any of the big boys and transfer to Nigeria.

Hopefully somebody reads this and learns. My only regret is not graduating from school sooner. I was fortunate to finish secobdary school and come here at 16

How did you arrive Canada at age of 16?

And why are you in so much haste to return to Nigeria?isn't life there better?

And why is it difficult to buy a house in Canada.
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by ibrahimovic303: 11:46am On Oct 01, 2018
EasternDamsel4:

My dear na boredom and loneliness fear me pass in relocating to d abroad. As in ehh wic neighbor house I go dey enter to go gist, chop better afang soup with periwinkles...where d joint where I for go sit down to chop boli and peppered fish. � this life ehhn

My bro u said it all...The people here are something else, always keeping straight faces and look angry all the time. I even start to play ball by the side, this one self nor help...las las we gaz choose wetin we want na? Broke and happy in Naija or rich and lonely in the Western world.

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Nobody: 11:58am On Oct 01, 2018
ibrahimovic303:


My bro u said it all...The people here are something else, always keeping straight faces and look angry all the time. I even start to play ball by the side, this one self nor help...las las we gaz choose wetin we want na? Broke and happy in Naija or rich and lonely in the Western world.
Abeg I no be bro o. I am a lady. Abi I comment lyk man? �

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by ibrahimovic303: 11:58am On Oct 01, 2018
EasternDamsel4:

Abeg I no be bro o. I am a lady. Abi I comment lyk man? �

lol...okay no vex cheesy

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Mizwisdom(f): 12:03pm On Oct 01, 2018
Z4Gardell:
Talking about living outside of Nigeria... It all depends on what you want 1. If you want to see beautiful places yeah most of them are very beautiful 2. If you want to hustle for money,good education, good health care, and enabling environment yeah most of the places in the world you can get them ; hustle-and make good money as per exchange rate. 3. If you want a place to feel like home no no you can’t get it any where in the world except Nigeria 4. If you want a place to see enchanting faces no no you can’t get it, Nigeria is the only place in the world you see enchanting faces... This is deeper than what it means it only when you relocate you will understand this 5. If you are looking for a place to be welcomed no no you can’t get it only in Nigeria you get welcomed... you will not understand this only when you relocate. 6. Looking for a place to be free...then stay in Nigeria 7. Looking for a family for togetherness and oneness it is only in Nigeria you get to feel and see such... this is something you won’ t know until you get there and you mom or brother tell you that you have to contribute to the house upkeep when they know you don’t have a job. 8. Looking for friends to stand by you then stay in Nigeria... cos over here I laugh in Swahili ki ki ki . 9. Are you looking for help Laughs!!! Then it is only in Nigeria you get free help... Nigeria is where some one you do not really know can give you 10k just to help you. I will stop at 10. Nigeria and her hospitality is unimaginable, not to be compared and can never be seen or get anywhere in the world. It all depends on what you are looking for outside of Nigeria


It's cool to read a mature view of things once in a while.

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Nobody: 12:06pm On Oct 01, 2018
[quote author=Rubyventures post=71684973]

You have said it all. Anyone that sends me happy independence - its return to sender.
grin grin[/quote
Hahahaha calm down...the Independence Day was worsened by the president's speech. Me I want to leave this country to Seychelles...where life is good,,,resting by d beach and sipping coconut water with my legs crossed. God did I ask for too much?

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Ishilove: 12:10pm On Oct 01, 2018
cymontempler:
Somalia - Mogadishu
Iraq - Fallujah, Basra
Liberia - Monrovia
Rwanda - Kigali
Libya - Benghazi


Nothing really, just war zones.
Are you/were you a UN peace keeper?
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Ishilove: 12:13pm On Oct 01, 2018
Z4Gardell:
Talking about living outside of Nigeria... It all depends on what you want 1. If you want to see beautiful places yeah most of them are very beautiful 2. If you want to hustle for money,good education, good health care, and enabling environment yeah most of the places in the world you can get them ; hustle-and make good money as per exchange rate. 3. If you want a place to feel like home no no you can’t get it any where in the world except Nigeria 4. If you want a place to see enchanting faces no no you can’t get it, Nigeria is the only place in the world you see enchanting faces... This is deeper than what it means it only when you relocate you will understand this 5. If you are looking for a place to be welcomed no no you can’t get it only in Nigeria you get welcomed... you will not understand this only when you relocate. 6. Looking for a place to be free...then stay in Nigeria 7. Looking for a family for togetherness and oneness it is only in Nigeria you get to feel and see such... this is something you won’ t know until you get there and you mom or brother tell you that you have to contribute to the house upkeep when they know you don’t have a job. 8. Looking for friends to stand by you then stay in Nigeria... cos over here I laugh in Swahili ki ki ki . 9. Are you looking for help Laughs!!! Then it is only in Nigeria you get free help... Nigeria is where some one you do not really know can give you 10k just to help you. I will stop at 10. Nigeria and her hospitality is unimaginable, not to be compared and can never be seen or get anywhere in the world. It all depends on what you are looking for outside of Nigeria
Deep.
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by iamdannyfc(m): 12:14pm On Oct 01, 2018
Omo ,i no sabi when tears drop for my eye when reading this..
It is well

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Ishilove: 12:14pm On Oct 01, 2018
EasternDamsel4:

You sound like a dreamer. A good life goes beyond sipping coconut water on a beach. If you want that go to Elegushi beach

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Nobody: 12:24pm On Oct 01, 2018
Ishilove:

You sound like a dreamer. A good life goes beyond sipping coconut water on a beach. If you want that go to Elegushi beach
My dear u won't understand and no, I am not a dreamer. Good life for some of us is staying far away from craze, noise, violence, angry Nigerians...money isn't d issue here. Just us and nature �

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Presido44: 12:25pm On Oct 01, 2018
yemiosinbajo:


Ajala, so, you've been in SA for over 3 years and you're still planning to jump to another zone. When you reach there, you will jump elsewhere again. Instead of you to ask your village people where they kept your goals so you can go grab once and for all, you keep jumping from place to place searching for goals that are not lost. At your age, your mates don already dey settle down for one place, you still dey jump upandan

That could be part of his goals, you never can tell.
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Ishilove: 12:26pm On Oct 01, 2018
EasternDamsel4:

My dear u won't understand and no, I am not a dreamer. Good life for some of us is staying far away from craze, noise, violence, angry Nigerians...money isn't d issue here. Just us and nature �
Sis, there is no solitude at the beach. Real solitude is the wilderness

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Nobody: 12:34pm On Oct 01, 2018
Ishilove:

Sis, there is no solitude at the beach. Real solitude is the wilderness
I bet you, there is..there's a beach where u can find real solitude. Forget d wilderness...leave it 4 d carmels. OK?!

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by BiafraIShere(m): 12:35pm On Oct 01, 2018
Reading the comments here made me sobber, and angry at the same time. Lately, I'm always battling with my emotions if I made a mistake in deciding to stay in Nigeria. Just look at all the things people are enjoying and taking for granted abroad which we home-based see as luxury!? I had the opportunity to travel to the US this year but I passed it over to my brother and he traveled to the US along with my sister. I thought I would be somewhat okay in Nigeria since I was earning relatively good money (averaging about 250-300k but now seems to be fluctuating downwards) in a not so expensive city. I even installed solar system in my office to overcome the notorious power problem but most times at home, a neighbor will always leave his rickety generator on even late into the night with the noise and fumes constituting serious nuisance!! Nigeria is just a terrible and hopeless place where nothing works yet I'm very reluctant to travel abroad. Someone said that Nigerians are living a mediocre life grin grin If only the politicians and indeed everyone else will be responsible and productive, maybe we won't be in this mess we are currently in. I keep saying it, the problem with Nigeria is majorly caused by the north. Northern Nigeria is largely unproductive and the South has to pay for it by subsidizing them!! If the whole country is working in the same pace then our GDP would have been double of what it is currently and the north won't have been so adamant against restructuring. Nigeria will be in serious trouble if the status quo remains considering that income is likely to fall or at best remain the same while population keeps ballooning!! My ambition has always been to earn enough to travel the world and send my children abroad for good education but this country is so unpredictable and with buhari staying beyond 2019, I don't know what the future holds in stock for us. So sad.

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by babeosisi: 12:40pm On Oct 01, 2018
XaintJoel20:


Please how can I convince my girlfriend to accept an invitation to the USA.
She has turn down the offer her cousin sent her to come and stay in the USA.
please give me clue to convince her.
Thanks

It's really her choice
Not everyone wants to live in the USA
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by hustla(m): 12:41pm On Oct 01, 2018
uyiekpenn:
got a better offer and I feel in love with the culture when I went there for the first time. Australia pays more than Canada but things are way more expensive in Oz than Canada


Hmmm
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Ishilove: 12:41pm On Oct 01, 2018
EasternDamsel4:

I bet you, there is..there's a beach where u can find real solitude. Forget d wilderness...leave it 4 d carmels. OK?!
Camels in the wilderness? tongue undecided
Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by SweetyZinta(f): 1:04pm On Oct 01, 2018
Explorers:


Sister am doing great o.

Wish to experience life outside this continent also, Beautiful countries, people, culture, landscapes, alps, winter, glaciers, northern light and so on.

But you know, no money, no visa.

Just hoping for God's Favor/Grace

Oh dear,

I am very glad to hear from you. It's been a while since I last saw your thread. Thank God you are doing fine. God bless you richly. If you get to your paradise before please remember me. Lol


Nigerians must overcome

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by Rubyventures: 1:11pm On Oct 01, 2018
[quote author=EasternDamsel4 post=71686008][/quote]


Its not too much to ask, its one of the simplest things in life and its supposed to be free.

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Re: Share Your Experience Of Life Outside Nigeria. by badex36(m): 1:21pm On Oct 01, 2018
Omololu001:
I converted it to naira,naija gas dey finish,but here gas no dey finish o...so far you don pay the fix amount, if you like use gas wey worth 20k,nah you sabi.

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