StOla:
God forbid the day I will abandon a well paying Nigerian job just because I want to put on winter jacket in UK while my face is unhappy and my health is terribly under stress.

I do not mind doing it for a job or immigration to the USA where opportunities abound for even the very 1st generation of the immigrant family, but UK is a big NO.

The majority of Nigerians who have been in the UK since the early 1980s, they have not made it till today. Their children have not made it too.

The wise 3rd generation have embraced sport and entertainment, so that the curse of the UK will not happen to the 3rd generation of the family.

If you go to the UK, you are going there to suffer so that maybe your 3rd generation family can finally live wealthy.

Not everyone is as selfish n self centered like you. Alot of people doing it are doing it for thar 3rd generation. You still a boy, when you have kids and you are a responsible parent, you would know then what it means to make sacrifices for your loved ones.

Nigerians and trying to discourage others from japaing

Some Nigerians would rather learn from their own nasty experience

Damn!

Didijiji:
that is almost 2.6m in a month for those earning 20k pounds


some peoples 2 years salary in Nigeria

Yea and you can save up to 900k.

ekanDamie:

Not everyone is as selfish n self centered like you. Alot of people doing it are doing it for thar 3rd generation. You still a boy, when you have kids and you are a responsible parent, you would know then what it means to make sacrifices for your loved ones.

Come on sharrap. That has always being the lame excuse you guys give when all else fail. Your kids no send you and may even return back to Nigeria.

At least, Tiwa Savage and Davido did.

LIVE YOUR LIFE

Neoteny:

Average monthly rent in UK is £1,200 (london x2 that amount), average utilities is £200, £35 for internet, phone around £40, groceries around £500 monthly for a family of 3, and average bus and tram pass (for 1x person) for a month is £100

That's £2,075
Given the average annual salary is £40,000 for full-time jobs and the monthly net is averagely £2,693, your leftover is:

£2,693 less £2,075 = £618, or £20 per day.
This doesn't include clothing, toiletries, movies, haircuts, gate passes, rentals, health, insurances, entertainment, savings, gifts, etc

I want to point some things to you. Will their annual household income forever remain on 40k? Are there no opportunity to change to better paying jobs or get promoted to higher-paying roles within the same company? and Lets go by this your calculation, even if all they have left to save as a family is £200 for fixing something back home, is it not something for being on minimum wage jobs? But my major argument with u is this, will they be on minimum wage forever? Do they have jobs in Nigeria that will have them save 500k every month for investment or building project? When they were in Nigeria, did they have budget for gifts, entertainment. If NO, why is it now suddenly important because they are in UK.

Donaldoni:


Come on sharrap. That has always being the lame excuse you guys give when all else fail. Your kids no send you and may even return back to Nigeria.

At least, Tiwa Savage and Davido did.

LIVE YOUR LIFE

As I said, you are a boy. Wait till you birth your first kid with a woman you love. You would remember this comment and smile seeing how childish you reasoned.
I'm not saying no one can excel in 9ja, but then atleast Tiwa savage left. Even I may still come and settle in 9ja everyone with their different strategy, but I assure u, uld think differently when you grow older.

All these clouth chasers, at least, you will get the light you paid for, you will get value on every dime to u paid as tax, better than living in edo state and paying tax, for the tax too be fed to one fat thief in zamfara state, in the name federal sharing of revenue. All these annoying hediots, just because you first person travel, you think it's your job to codedly discourage others from coming being the saddist enemy of progress that you are. Imagine if junior Pope was rescued in the UK, shey dem for dey do ritual for water side or he will be taken to the hospital in an ambulance that is even well equipped more than some Nigeria's federal hospitals. I will Trek to d UK for the sake of their Internet speed sef......radarada...

Didijiji:
that is almost 2.6m in a month for those earning 20k pounds


some peoples 2 years salary in Nigeria

Will you spend in naira there?

You people will not cease to amuse me.

Rent alone will take the bulk of your money.

Kemistri3:
Are you still interested in moving to the United Kingdom (UK) after seeing this?😀



Dr Olufunmilayo

Pls shut up ur mouth. There's light on u k, fuel and general security. Face that matter first in Nigeria

ekanDamie:

Not everyone is as selfish n self centered like you. Alot of people doing it are doing it for thar 3rd generation. You still a boy, when you have kids and you are a responsible parent, you would know then what it means to make sacrifices for your loved ones.

I will like to have a drink with you before the end of this world ..if I tell you stories about people I have met abd their mentality and general approach to life you might be gobsmacked ..

All those in foreign countries will saying do you want to travel UK is this uk is that tax is high food is expensive but don't want to come back to 9ja

obaidan:

I want to point some things to you. Will their annual household income forever remain on 40k? Are there no opportunity to change to better paying jobs or get promoted to higher-paying roles within the same company? and Lets go by this your calculation, even if all they have left to save as a family is £200 for fixing something back home, is it not something for being on minimum wage jobs? But my major argument with u is this, will they be on minimum wage forever? Do they have jobs in Nigeria that will have them save 500k every month for investment or building project? When they were in Nigeria, did they have budget for gifts, entertainment. If NO, why is it now suddenly important because they are in UK.

Year over year wages grew in real terms by only about 3%. The NBS says wage growth is slowing, not even stagnating.

Bear in mind the UK economy has been shrinking since Brexit (hence the recent immigration laws) and the outlook is quite bleak. GDP growth is near zero for the past 2 years. The Pound is not a well-performing currency and the BRICS shenanigans will make it worse.

So your point does not account for the cost of living in the UK; you're just comparing purchasing power between the pound and the naira which is faulty reasoning: you're not using UK currency to live in Nigeria, you're using it to live in the UK. You can't save £200 from a monthly non-net £618 when you factor all the other costs of living outside the amount i calculated.

Stop comparing Nigeria to UK and consider the UK alone and the average wages vs cost of living.

ThiefnubuBandit:
Those who want a better life will still travel out of this hell-hole. 20,000 £ is more than 34 million Naira. And that is the least annual salary the poster wrote there. You dey whine? Which job wan pay a Nigerian youth up to 34 million NGN every year for inside Naija? Abi nah all these one-man business wey full everywhere?

If you work for 3 years, you will be able to invest in a business in Nigeria that someone residing in Nigeria will not be able to start with 12 years of working.

Posts like this one are meant precisely for ignoramuses like you, who assume everything costs the same in the UK as it does in Nigeria. Do you know what the average renting price for even a 1-bedroom currently is in London? More than £2,100 per month in central London, and "only" £1,750-£2,150 per month if you're willing to spend 2-hours commuting by train every day (and spending £15 on train tickets each time). Don't believe me? See for yourself!

https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/housing-and-land/improving-private-rented-sector/london-rents-map

Of course, after this you still have to pay council tax (£200/month), gas and electricity (£100/month), buy food (at least £200/month even if you never dine out), buy clothes, etc. £20,000 a year is starvation wages in the UK!

So many of you delude yourselves into thinking Britain's streets are paved with gold based on your simple-minded exchange rate calculations, only to find yourselves living a beggar's existence once you get there, not to talk of the long, cold dark winters and the near-total isolation you are bound to experience given the huge cultural differences.

casppyjay:
I will like to have a drink with you before the end of this world ..if I tell you stories about people I have met abd their mentality and general approach to life you might be gobsmacked ..

Well, even Jesus that died, people today don't apprc8 it, but if he has a chance to do it all over again, he still would.
Boils that to your personality n what makes you happy in the end. Paving a better life for others gives me satisfaction. And if God favours me. That's exactly what I hope to achieve

Yes

faceland:
Ii wouldn't want to go to UK to struggle but that tweet looks fake (doesn't even make sense).

APC tweet

ekanDamie:

Well, even Jesus that died, people today don't apprc8 it, but if he has a chance to do it all over again, he still would.
Boils that to your personality n what makes you happy in the end. Paving a better life for others gives me satisfaction. And if God favours me. That's exactly what I hope to achieve

it has never being about religion to me anyway because to begin we were all humans before religion and religion has created a despicable list of excuses for arrant religions pathetic double standards hypocritical nonsense….I’m full fledged Christian and I have read the bible back and forth..

ArcSEMPECJ:


Exactly, Nigeria remains a country that God still loves and even blessed without any Tsunami, earthquake etc...

A county that other developed countries see as a rich country because of the kind of money our politicians run to keep on their banks..

Imagine up till now, Abacha's loots are still yet to finish, Government of Buhari borrowed loans from the loot of Abacha to run his government...lols

Nobody is talking about Buhari's loot now because it was part of the agreement signed , until an opposition comes to Government now, that's when we will know howfar....

Just try to work hard and get money or be comfortable in Nigeria....so many people have moved on because it is a cycle.

Exactly...
God bless

I will go there to investigate.

Allen Onyema already said, you get more value from ₦200K, than from £2000........😁😂

Kingrshd3:


U guys lack knowledge for comparing one currency to another .

He living in UK the money is not enough for him to pay monthly dues like rent gas nepa etc

Is only if he save those money travel down to Nigeria he is going to be richer than u .

because I know poor mentality is in ur head that's why u are calculating rubbish ...


Any money u earn abroad will match their standard of living only when u bring that same currency to Nigeria that's when d money has value ok .

So stop comparing when d dude is still living in UK

look at this olodo rapata riffraff
Abeg shut ur dirty smelling mouth up
With the thrash spitting out of your pauper guts

They are telling us not to go and they refused to come back to Nigeria.

casppyjay:
it has never being about religion to me anyway because to begin we were all humans before religion and religion has created a despicable list of excuses for arrant religions pathetic double standards hypocritical nonsense….I’m full fledged Christian and I have read the bible back and forth..

No, I was not talking bout religion, I only used jesis cos he is a known example of someone who made an act of sacrifice for the greater good. That's what I was tryna point out. Sacrifice

StOla:
God forbid the day I will abandon a well paying Nigerian job just because I want to put on winter jacket in UK while my face is unhappy and my health is terribly under stress.

I do not mind doing it for a job or immigration to the USA where opportunities abound for even the very 1st generation of the immigrant family, but UK is a big NO.

The majority of Nigerians who have been in the UK since the early 1980s, they have not made it till today. Their children have not made it too.

The wise 3rd generation have embraced sport and entertainment, so that the curse of the UK will not happen to the 3rd generation of the family.

If you go to the UK, you are going there to suffer so that maybe your 3rd generation family can finally live wealthy.

It's not cast in stone like that for everybody. Some will go and make it in 6months while some may take up to the 3rd generation like you said.

My problems with Nigerians is when they start comparing apple and melon together. It's two different world. If you chose the UK, just stick to your UK and if chose Nigeria, just stick to Nigeria.

Both has its advantages and disadvantages to every individual. What is advantage to someone in the UK, may be advantage to another in Nigeria.

There's no basis for comparison at all. I've lived in the UK for several years and can't say I have everything I wanted completely in either UK or Nigeria.

It has always been a mixed bag for me. When I want something I can only get on the UK, I go to the UK, and when I want something I can only get in Nigeria, I go to Nigeria.

The world is simple.....no single country has all their shits together. That's why I rather see myself as a citizen of the world instead of fixating myself to one or two limited environment.

ekanDamie:

No, I was not talking bout religion, I only used jesis cos he is a known example of someone who made an act of sacrifice for the greater good. That's what I was tryna point out. Sacrifice

ok bro ..👊🏿 understood! I have kids and I basically live for them it’s a natural order I’m doing exactly what my parents did and I’m doing more! Religion doesn’t come in my context hence I wrote that ..sorry

TheGift:


From this statement, i know that you are not familiar with the cost of living crisis hitting people in the UK.

ok

We meeeuve

Rexymania:
What about insecurities? Tribalism?

You shouldn’t have mentioned tribalism at all in your terms of comparison.

In terms of segregation, you will never experience anything worse than racism .

An abundance of it resides in the U.K.

Bulshit, anyone that has means of traveling should do so period

What's the useless basis of comparison?
For example someone earning #350,000 per month in Lagos will hardly be able to save if you have loan you are servicing.
Same person came to UK and was earning say £52k PA and earning around £3,050 after tax. If the spouse is working, will live a very comfortable life with high quality of life. It's better you leave Nigeria when you are younger if you desire to leave.

My advise: if you are a professional, please leave Nigeria and find a better future for yourself and family. Not everyone here is doing odds jobs like some people say. Even those doing so called odd jobs are making it big. To me no job is odd as long as it pays your bill.

Those giving the rubbish comparison have their own children abroad.

Kemistri3:
Are you still interested in moving to the United Kingdom (UK) after seeing this?😀



Dr Olufunmilayo

Let me drop the fact...even as at last month.
When you earn 2600 per month.
Your take home is 1800.
A one room self contain all Bill's inclusive is max 600 pounds only you.
With ur partner it 700 max.
All Bill's inclusive means you wont pay water bill, light and internet.
Nigeria food is approximately 200 pounds per month...
Transportation is 4 pounds per day that 20 pounds per week ...then 80 pounds per month...because u will likely per for per week or 54 pounds per month for bus ticket.
Water is like 30 pounds in a month
Mobile credit..say 30 pounds in a month..
The beer or tithes say 150 pounds
All these will fall to 1000/1100 pounds per month .
You will still have 500 pounds to change at 1700 naira to send home...
Check am....including peace of mind
No bad dreams...no police shooting...no abuja one chance....no enemy of progress and jealousy people around you.

Which is better