Mcslize:


Op has your visa expired? Come and join us. After all this is our mothers' land. We need people like you to come and have a taste of our golden paradise Nigeria.

We now have 24hrs light o. Have you heard? Our roads are all tide now and smooth to drive in. No more potholes. No more kidnapping. In fact, you can dress any how you want and walk the streets of Nigeria, no police man will term you yahoo boy for dressing nice.

We now have clean pipe borne water o. All streets are electrified. During this coronavirus, Nigeria government even gave all of us N150,000 as palliative. We are all living well now. no more kidnapping.

Bro, can you believe education is now free from Primary to University level? Our hospitals are now well equipped. In fact, politicians no longer travel abroad for treatment. Pls return, we will welcome you with open arms.

Happy arrival in advance!

I just can't stop laughing

Snaagg:
Nigerians abroad, how many of you are considering relocating back to the 'motherland' once this whole pandemic/lockdown debacle is over?

If you are, state your reasons here..

With the high increase of Covid-19 at home, I think am staying put till next year ending... By God grace.

Wrong question.

Most of the people on NL are young impressionable kids who have never traveled before or are still in the young phase of their sojourn abroad.

Give them another 20 to 30 years abroad then ask them again.

Add me Join abeg

JewelStone:
I'm not gonna lie...I miss Nigeria sometimes which makes me flirt with the idea of splitting my time there when my kids are older. I miss my family, my friends and the sense of community.

But then I remember lack of internet and electricity, horrific healthcare system, bad roads, bigotry, lack of value for human life, insecurity, police brutality, immense corruption, tribalism, crumbling or non-existent economy and a million other horrible things. This quickly resets my mind.

My solution which I'm currently working on is to bring my sisters and my best friend over to live in Sydney with me and make good living for themselves. Then I won't have any business with Nigeria anymore except to visit my parents every two years.

So to answer your question: no, nein, never!!!

Lol living in Nigeria would turn me into a very nasty person

JewelStone:
I'm not gonna lie...I miss Nigeria sometimes which makes me flirt with the idea of splitting my time there when my kids are older. I miss my family, my friends and the sense of community.

But then I remember lack of internet and electricity, horrific healthcare system, bad roads, bigotry, lack of value for human life, insecurity, police brutality, immense corruption, tribalism, crumbling or non-existent economy and a million other horrible things. This quickly resets my mind.

My solution which I'm currently working on is to bring my sisters and my best friend over to live in Sydney with me and make good living for themselves. Then I won't have any business with Nigeria anymore except to visit my parents every two years.

So to answer your question: no, nein, never!!!

How can one move to Sydney please?

Even with 10 million naira cash from FG I go still dey where I dey OP.

Snaagg:
Nigerians abroad, how many of you are considering relocating back to the 'motherland' once this whole pandemic/lockdown debacle is over?

If you are, state your reasons here..

With the high increase of Covid-19 at home, I think am staying put till next year ending
I really miss home
... By God grace.

This is witchcraft question

JewelStone:
I'm not gonna lie...I miss Nigeria sometimes which makes me flirt with the idea of splitting my time there when my kids are older. I miss my family, my friends and the sense of community.

But then I remember lack of internet and electricity, horrific healthcare system, bad roads, bigotry, lack of value for human life, insecurity, police brutality, immense corruption, tribalism, crumbling or non-existent economy and a million other horrible things. This quickly resets my mind.

My solution which I'm currently working on is to bring my sisters and my best friend over to live in Sydney with me and make good living for themselves. Then I won't have any business with Nigeria anymore except to visit my parents every two years.

So to answer your question: no, nein, never!!!

So you still get mind wan con Visit your lost parent abi?? I pity you. By the time your passport go suddenly disappear the day you wan go back to Sydney. Your eyes go Clear lol.....Anything wey make me leave Shiithole. There Is no looking back or coming back there forever....

A Liberian once visited Nigeria shortly after their civil war. He confided in me that when he landed in Lagos he had thought the Liberian war extended to Nigeria!

Na. Leave us and our rubbish country. Stick to your lifeboat.

Op, just thinking about not having light 24/7 gives me anxiety

Liodins:
Moving back to Nigeria to come do what?

Exactly o

moving back to Nigeria when I want my kids to teste life outside the dark hole called nigeria oh hell no I'm not moving back now till I clock 65 thanks

We are listening o

I wouldn't recommend it, don't be fooled by the semi-decent Nollywood movies on Netflix or Amazon. Nigeria is a hard country to live in. Everyone is angry, there is corruption from the top to the bottom, there is no functioning public service, in 2020, there is zero electricity/security/Healthcare. Roads here are death-traps and the Government didn't even give Nigerians any palliatives during the Draconian lockdown.

As we speak, unborn Nigerian babies are practicing their corruption skills where ever they are.

So basically stay where you are, in this case the grass is uglier, sinister, murkier and not greener.

Ishilove:
Heh. If you can live in Nigeria, you can survive anywhere in the world.

Nigerians in the homeland need to undergo a radical change of mindset before we can see things move forward.

Not true Ishi. You will in fact have a harder time surviving, as not every country is this abnormal. I saw a thread on Quora, “what is weird in Nigeria, but normal in the rest of the world?”

You can guess the responses.

I should leave a functional society for a dysfunctional one abi? Is it Kwale weed or Oshogbo weed that the OP is smoking?

I don't miss Nigeria one bit.
Never will.

JewelStone:
I'm not gonna lie...I miss Nigeria sometimes which makes me flirt with the idea of splitting my time there when my kids are older. I miss my family, my friends and the sense of community.

But then I remember lack of internet and electricity, horrific healthcare system, bad roads, bigotry, lack of value for human life, insecurity, police brutality, immense corruption, tribalism, crumbling or non-existent economy and a million other horrible things. This quickly resets my mind.

My solution which I'm currently working on is to bring my sisters and my best friend over to live in Sydney with me and make good living for themselves. Then I won't have any business with Nigeria anymore except to visit my parents every two years.

So to answer your question: no, nein, never!!!thanks

Do you speak German?

my question is coming to Nigeria exactly to do what? start looking for a job where there is an army of unemployed citizens who can’t find jobs- you need to know someone who knows someone to get a job that you can barely survive on

And when you open a business nko, according to Fela - another wahala - no electricity to run it, no light , no ac, no fan , heat everywhere, generator buzzing left and right


and in case you are lucky to even succeed in running a business or getting a dream job, you are scared to live life like a normal human being - armed robbers everywhere, kidnappings, police and security agents harassment, poor healthcare facility, and a myriad of issues that are simple non existent where i live right now

America is not paradise but it is million miles ahead of Nigeria. the things even the dead poor people take for granted in the US are luxuries to the super rich and powerful in Nigeria.

life is not only about having chunks or bundles of currency tucked in a bank vault in your name. it is the quality of life and ease of living that matters


hell no, not relocating to Nigeria - visit Nigeria oh yess i will, stay there permanently he’ll to the NO!

Kuns84:


Nawa. God help us in this country.
Although some people are still enjoying Naija as is.

The goal is to have an egalitarian society where a househelp can dream of owning a car or putting a down payment for mortgage.
It doesn't matter if majority of the population are down the shitter.

Which kain motherland?

dasparrow:


Move back to Nigeria when I know I am not insane? Actually, I did move back to Nigeria from the States during Goodluck Jonathan's era but it became clear to me that I just can't live in Nigeria again so couple years back, I left Nigeria again.

Culturally, I just don't fit into the Nigerian society. My mindset and ideologies are quite different from your typical Nigerian mindset and ideology.

I don't miss the mosquitoes, malaria, typhoid, dust, heat, overpopulation, haggling prices when one wants to purchase something, tribalism, bigotry, lack of constant power supply and water supply, rising cost of living but low wages, employers in the habit of owing employees salary for months, insecurity, Nigerians not knowing how to respect personal boundaries and/or mind their business. Nigeria is just not conducive for me.

the tribalism and bigotry part got me laughing

I love my life in Nigeria. My wife and younger children are abroad. My business is here. My older children are also here. I don't want to live abroad. I sympathize with those whose only experience of life in Nigeria is one of suffering. Your contributions to this discourse will therefore be purely subjective. I have run my family this way for over 20 years.
If all that matters to you is internet, good roads, friendly police, zero corruption etc., you probably are still just beginning life. There's a lot more to quality of life than these things. I be loved both worlds and know that where you are in your life a journey determine your response.
By the way, I worked in Nigeria and took an early retirement to venture into business. I ve no regrets. I ve met lots of folks abroad who would live to come home if the had a friendly honest hand to guide them.

ismoney:
Don’t judge what you don’t understand. One day if God permits you to, you will understand.
God bless Nigeria.

I'm not a Christian, but God in His Holiness, hates rubbish. Very soon, this country will split, then you'll understand

I'm not an IPOB member FYI

I promise you Nairalanders won't let the diaspora people talk


They will fill the thread with gibberish.

sweetmelanin:
Move back to Nigeria? Lol
You couldn't pay me enough to do so. I can't and I won't!

Hehehe

I drove past the passport office in ikeja today and was like....so people still wan travel? The crowd was unprecedented. Meanwhile some young chaps are busy raking in millions monthly inside same country. What we are all looking for in sokoto is right inside our sokoto

JewelStone:
I'm not gonna lie...I miss Nigeria sometimes which makes me flirt with the idea of splitting my time there when my kids are older. I miss my family, my friends and the sense of community.

But then I remember lack of internet and electricity, horrific healthcare system, bad roads, bigotry, lack of value for human life, insecurity, police brutality, immense corruption, tribalism, crumbling or non-existent economy and a million other horrible things. This quickly resets my mind.

My solution which I'm currently working on is to bring my sisters and my best friend over to live in Sydney with me and make good living for themselves. Then I won't have any business with Nigeria anymore except to visit my parents every two years.

So to answer your question: no, nein, never!!!

Can I become your friend, that way you take me too?

ibkayee:
Lol living in Nigeria would turn me into a very nasty person

In essence, are you saying people living here are nasty?