If youโre moving from Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ to the UK ๐ฌ๐ง and youโre unsure which city to choose, hereโs a quick shortcut to save you hours of research.
๐ฌ๐ง London = ๐ณ๐ฌ Lagos. Same pressure, same movement, same feeling that everybody is chasing something bigger.
๐ฌ๐ง Milton Keynes = ๐ณ๐ฌ Abuja. Clean, planned, structured, and somehow still making roundabouts a lifestyle.
๐ฌ๐ง Edinburgh = ๐ณ๐ฌ Port Harcourt. Oil city energy, straight-faced people, and zero interest in pretending life is cheap.
๐ฌ๐ง Birmingham = ๐ณ๐ฌ Kano. Young city, serious hustle, and enough commercial weight to matter without needing Londonโs validation.
๐ฌ๐ง Leicester = ๐ณ๐ฌ Benin City. Community everywhere, cultures mixing easily, and enough Naija presence to make the move feel softer.
๐ฌ๐ง Manchester = ๐ณ๐ฌ Ibadan. Proud identity, deep culture, and a city that does not need to shout before you notice its influence.
๐ฌ๐ง Leeds = ๐ณ๐ฌ Kaduna. Quietly important. Practical people. No unnecessary noise, just real life and real work.
๐ฌ๐ง Bristol = ๐ณ๐ฌ Enugu. Clean energy. Creative crowd. A softer pace, but still enough ambition to keep things moving.
๐ฌ๐ง Bradford = ๐ณ๐ฌ Ilorin. Affordable, underrated, and built more on real community than on hype.
Which one did I get right and which one did I miss?
Iโm not a DevOps guy, never haveโฆbut I was quite bored and decided to apply to a very big American company, a huge one, as a Senior Systems Engineer. The major requirement for the role was expertise in Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins, amongst many other tools.
Interview invite came, first stage was more around supporting systems, scaling, scenario-based questions, etc. I prepare people for interviews everyday of my life, so this was small meat. I have also supported different softwares and applications, so there was experience for days to talk about. I passed first stage.
I started to think that maybe I could even get the job, because it was $160k, I donโt even live in the US, itโs hybrid though, once in a month in the office or so, so I knew I wasnโt gonna get the job realistically even if I changed my mind, I donโt live there, so I kept the fun.
I kept the fun by learning little stuff on Kubernetes, like basics ๐ , called one of my guy to show me the interface of Jenkins, played about with it, I was even laughing at myself.
Second stage, I passed.
Third and final stage was with my potential manager, interview started, no long talk. The guy launched Kubernetes and started asking me what will I do if a client calls and says bla bla bla, what command will I run to do this and that, I started skipping.
He said, okay forget about that, asked another, I could not answer. He then said heโs just building up๐๐๐๐
I told him I used Kubernetes many years ago and canโt remember much but I can always refresh and learn on the job, I said many stories๐๐๐ me and the guy just begin laugh๐
He was disappointed though, because the previous 4 interviewers (two for each stage) had said good things about me and my experience, so I could see the disappointment in his face, we laughed it off though๐
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A lot of Immigrants in the Uk ๐ฌ๐ง I have interacted with who took on car financing deals, did it out of financial ignorance and ego. Not backed by any financial nuances.
So Many are regretting their decisions.