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What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by Chingyyy878: 4:13pm On Oct 12, 2023
Especially our UK brethren

Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by ekene101: 4:52pm On Oct 12, 2023
grin grin
Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by ednut1(m): 5:30pm On Oct 12, 2023
Chingyyy878:
Especially our UK brethren
your decision to japa is influenced by what friends say If your mind is made up already will you listen to anyone.
Some people actually believe if fellow Nigerians are many in a place they will cast it like Cyprus, Malaysia, Canbodia, South Africa etc

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Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by superCleanworks(m): 5:30pm On Oct 12, 2023
annoyance every where
Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by Dikastan: 8:33pm On Oct 12, 2023
I will only take them serious when I see them back to Nigeria

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Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by justwise(m): 7:19am On Oct 13, 2023
Chingyyy878:
Especially our UK brethren

You have no money to travel, if you do you will not listen to your friends abroad.

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Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by BigDawsNet: 8:43am On Oct 13, 2023
Chingyyy878:
Especially our UK brethren

You are right...
When I was still in naija.. I have an uncle in theUK, a citizen... Good career and well fit financially... I called him and told him... I wanna come over... this dude discourage himself, not me... and even told me to goan open business and be selling market...

Was like... unlce.. are you joking?
Travelling and starting a business is 2 diff thing.. i want to travel... why telling me to start business?...
He told me.. Nigeria is good for hustling and making money... ๐Ÿ˜ and he sat down dere dey fresh, dey buy house like mtn data... just dey play...

Later I stop calling him...
I later move to the states... he heard from my pops and he can't even hav d liver to call me and say hi...

So this kin people... just ignore dem and find ur square root...

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Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by imoh4king(m): 10:39am On Oct 13, 2023
BigDawsNet:


You are right...
When I was still in naija.. I have an uncle in theUK, a citizen... Good career and well fit financially... I called him and told him... I wanna come over... this dude discourage himself, not me... and even told me to goan open business and be selling market...

Was like... unlce.. are you joking?
Travelling and starting a business is 2 diff thing.. i want to travel... why telling me to start business?...
He told me.. Nigeria is good for hustling and making money... ๐Ÿ˜ and he sat down dere dey fresh, dey buy house like mtn data... just dey play...

Later I stop calling him...
I later move to the states... he heard from my pops and he can't even hav d liver to call me and say hi...

So this kin people... just ignore dem and find ur square root...

Nice one, bro.
Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by ibechris(m): 2:18pm On Oct 13, 2023
BigDawsNet:


You are right...
When I was still in naija.. I have an uncle in theUK, a citizen... Good career and well fit financially... I called him and told him... I wanna come over... this dude discourage himself, not me... and even told me to goan open business and be selling market...

Was like... unlce.. are you joking?
Travelling and starting a business is 2 diff thing.. i want to travel... why telling me to start business?...
He told me.. Nigeria is good for hustling and making money... ๐Ÿ˜ and he sat down dere dey fresh, dey buy house like mtn data... just dey play...

Later I stop calling him...
I later move to the states... he heard from my pops and he can't even hav d liver to call me and say hi...

So this kin people... just ignore dem and find ur square root...



That is there way...too many unfriendly people everywhere.
Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by WilsonBright935: 3:05pm On Oct 13, 2023
Not me.... I would even send links to you

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Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by Kenn55: 4:56pm On Oct 13, 2023
I don't think the so called "friends" abroad will discourage anyone who has the money to relocate. I think the discouragement comes when they see you are likely going to be a burden they can't bear.

Let me share my own experience.

I have a friend, we graduated together way back, he is married with 3 kids and works in Lagos. He has been planning to relocate to Canada through school. I have even advised him on the issues just to help him make the right choice. However, I didn't know that his plan to relocate was for me to sponsor him by paying his school fees, supplying the POF for visa and him living in my house for the program. He said he will start paying me back when he arrives and start working.

I told him I can't afford to do that. Even if I have that money, there are still line up of people who are closer to me that requires assistance before him. Meanwhile he is still owing me a total of N1.15m for more than 4 years now and I have left it for him. I only give people what I can afford to loose cos there is no guarantee that the reciever will pay you back.

I told him that staying in Nigeria is probably better for him since he doesn't have the funds to relocate and he went to tell people that I'm discouraging him rather than helping him relocate and that I'm not a good friend.

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Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by ednut1(m): 9:14pm On Oct 13, 2023
Kenn55:
I don't think the so called "friends" abroad will discourage anyone who has the money to relocate. I think the discouragement comes when they see you are likely going to be a burden they can't bear.

Let me share my own experience.

I have a friend, we graduated together way back, he is married with 3 kids and works in Lagos. He has been planning to relocate to Canada through school. I have even advised him on the issues just to help him make the right choice. However, I didn't know that his plan to relocate was for me to sponsor him by paying his school fees, supplying the POF for visa and him living in my house for the program. He said he will start paying me back when he arrives and start working.

I told him I can't afford to do that. Even if I have that money, there are still line up of people who are closer to me that requires assistance before him. Meanwhile he is still owing me a total of N1.15m for more than 4 years now and I have left it for him. I only give people what I can afford to loose cos there is no guarantee that the reciever will pay you back.

I told him that staying in Nigeria is probably better for him since he doesn't have the funds to relocate and he went to tell people that I'm discouraging him rather than helping him relocate and that I'm not a good friend.
hahahahaha madness

From a chat with a friend that faced such

โ€œโ€˜In May she reached out that she and her hubby got their UK work permit approved and need 5million. I told her to ask her older sis in the Uk. She replied that the sis just travelled and does not have. Oya ask your brother now, said brother wants to sponsor his wife via study route. Told her the last money I had was what I sent for her wedding the previous month and that I have my parents and younger brother to cater for. She responded with; โ€œwhy you go say you nor get? Wetin you Dey use all your money dey do?โ€ If not for old times, Iโ€™d have blocked herโ€

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Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by 1stGenAmerican(f): 10:45pm On Oct 13, 2023
Kenn55:
I don't think the so called "friends" abroad will discourage anyone who has the money to relocate. I think the discouragement comes when they see you are likely going to be a burden they can't bear.

Let me share my own experience.

I have a friend, we graduated together way back, he is married with 3 kids and works in Lagos. He has been planning to relocate to Canada through school. I have even advised him on the issues just to help him make the right choice. However, I didn't know that his plan to relocate was for me to sponsor him by paying his school fees, supplying the POF for visa and him living in my house for the program. He said he will start paying me back when he arrives and start working.

I told him I can't afford to do that. Even if I have that money, there are still line up of people who are closer to me that requires assistance before him. Meanwhile he is still owing me a total of N1.15m for more than 4 years now and I have left it for him. I only give people what I can afford to loose cos there is no guarantee that the reciever will pay you back.

I told him that staying in Nigeria is probably better for him since he doesn't have the funds to relocate and he went to tell people that I'm discouraging him rather than helping him relocate and that I'm not a good friend.


Wow. That guy made all those plans on your pocket, even after not paying you what he owed you before he made those plans. The gall.
Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by Schrodinger2(m): 11:20pm On Oct 13, 2023
Laughing from the West Coast grin.

Let me start by saying some of you guys in Nigeria only want to Japa without any strategy or plans of your own, and majorly because you've seen a friend or neighbor traveled out. Nobody can discourage you if you dedicated to the hustle.

Before I left for my MS/PhD program in the US, I self-motivated myself in the process for 3years, learning the ropes painstakingly even after rejections at the embassy.

I've tried to mentor and inspire guys to follow my method religiously after I arrived here, but lots of you guys are somewhat lazy, even before the first attempt. They think it was a one time/Chance thing.

If you're an ordinary Nigerian, you've got to leave your comfort zone and make sacrifices to Japa, for academic, business or career purposes.

Now, the moment you're being unserious, I don't waste my time.

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Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by Kenn55: 1:23am On Oct 14, 2023
ednut1:
hahahahaha madness

From a chat with a friend that faced such

โ€œโ€˜In May she reached out that she and her hubby got their UK work permit approved and need 5million. I told her to ask her older sis in the Uk. She replied that the sis just travelled and does not have. Oya ask your brother now, said brother wants to sponsor his wife via study route. Told her the last money I had was what I sent for her wedding the previous month and that I have my parents and younger brother to cater for. She responded with; โ€œwhy you go say you nor get? Wetin you Dey use all your money dey do?โ€ If not for old times, Iโ€™d have blocked herโ€


grin grin.
Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by Limassol(m): 12:20pm On Oct 14, 2023
BigDawsNet:


You are right...
When I was still in naija.. I have an uncle in theUK, a citizen... Good career and well fit financially... I called him and told him... I wanna come over... this dude discourage himself, not me... and even told me to goan open business and be selling market...

Was like... unlce.. are you joking?
Travelling and starting a business is 2 diff thing.. i want to travel... why telling me to start business?...
He told me.. Nigeria is good for hustling and making money... ๐Ÿ˜ and he sat down dere dey fresh, dey buy house like mtn data... just dey play...

Later I stop calling him...
I later move to the states... he heard from my pops and he can't even hav d liver to call me and say hi...

So this kin people... just ignore dem and find ur square root...

Bro... That's good to hear.

Shame no catch your uncle?
Re: What I Noticed About Friends Abroad by BigDawsNet: 1:53pm On Oct 14, 2023
Limassol:


Bro... That's good to hear.

Shame no catch your uncle?

Dat 1 no con consignee me again.. but I'm glad I run my own movement myself without having to worship him daily for bringing me abroad...

My advice for guys is that... if you have the finicial power.. just get ur information online and run ur own package... don't bother to inform them about your plan...

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