hey guys how you all doing i hope you are all right i'm so sorry i've not been able to post
anything for a while now and that's because i've been busy with work and learning how to drive the
car for the first time so i'm actually going to make a video about the whole car buying car drive
rating later on but in this video let's focus on living in northern ireland the pros and cons of
living in northern ireland so we're going to have like a heart-to-heart discussion these are some
of the things that i think you should actually put into consideration if you are deciding to
connect an island home so in this video we are going to be covering things like saving money um
job prospects for your personal raising children and just the general idea of living in northern
ireland and what it means so make sure you watch this video to the end and if you like this video
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much let's get on with it so guys the uk is made up of four countries which is england scotland
northern ireland and weights i didn't really pay much attention to waze so i only paid attention
to england scotland and northern ireland and northern ireland was top of my list if i had not
come to northern ireland i would have probably gone to scotland but the reason why i actually
picked northern ireland was because it was very affordable so a lot of you already know that
living in northern ireland is cheap chip chip chip chip and one thing you should also know is that
no matter where you decide to work in the nhs or the nursing home there is a high chance that your
employer is going to pay you the same rates that in spain every other nurse within your bandwidth
irrespective of where you live now there are very few exceptions to that like if you live in london
you can get like maybe one pound per hour extra but i really didn't think that was much so i
didn't really pay much attention to that that was why london was not really among the list of
places that i really wanted to live so i picked northern ireland i was just thinking like why on
earth would i go to somewhere very expensive when i'm going to be paid the exam certain so if for
example i'm going to be paid like maybe 20 pounds per hour why should i get 20 pounds per hour and
go and live in a very expensive city and be paying a lot of bids when i can go to northern ireland
pay fewer bids rent cheap accommodation and save a lot of money so that was my number one reason for
picking northern ireland it was cost effective for me and that was what i wanted i didn't want
a place where i was going to spend a lot of money i wanted to save a lot of money instead so i
could travel so that's one thing you guys should actually know so for um being affordable let's
take this house that i'm living in for example so i live in a four bedroom apartment and in
this house i pay 500 pounds per month now this 500 pounds we only get me something like a house share
in london or probably a one bedroom apartment in the outskirts of london or somewhere in england
but i can't imagine paying 500 pounds for four bedroom apartment in england and that is it i
have this mansion to myself and if i was here with family of course my family would have enough room
and i don't have to spend too much money to be able to get the comfort and the space that i want
and i'm that thing guys is that in england you have to pay council based and water bills and
there are also other bids and taxes that you have to pay but in northern ireland most of all
these bids are already included in your rent so i pay 500 pounds per month this 500 pounds
covers every other thing that i have to pay so i'm not paying 500 pounds monthly and then paying
um council tax and water be separate everything is just in the wrong in the rent so i just have
to be bothered about paying my rent once i pay my rent it's settled whereas if you live in somewhere
like england you're going to be paying your rent and you're also going to be paying other
bids aside from your rent so at the end of the day you'll find out that you are spending more
and saving very little and if you have family back home or if you have family here with you
you really don't want to be spending a lot of money on bees you did not come to this country to
pay bees and babies and pay bids you came to make money and save and help your family back home or
here with you so keep that at the back of your mind another thing is buying groceries and buying
african foods so living in northern ireland you are going to spend more money if you want to buy
african food here than in london of course things are cheaper in london and in england because they
have so many options there but in northern ireland we don't really have a lot of options in the town
where i live now there is no african shop so for me to get african food i have to take like an hour
train ride to belfast where i can get african food and there are some times that the amount for these
food items are actually a bit more than what i would get in england because you have to think
that the the shop owners here in northern ireland they have to also pay to transport the things
from england to northern ireland where they live so they are also going to add that to the bill
but for other food items other groceries that you can get like bread make i think there is not a lot
of difference if there are any different saturdays just a few cents so the only difference with um
saving money is just that buying african food is a bit more expensive here than what you would get
in london or in england per se so another thing you should consider is if you are coming with
your family if you are coming with your partner and your partner is not in the health field let's
say your husband or your wife is not a nurse it's going to be kind of difficult to get a job
unless he or she is comfortable with working in a non-professional field like working in mcdonald's
or doing a care assistant job but if he or she is someone that wants to work in a professional field
then i think england has more opportunities than northern ireland so it's different because you
you got your job before coming over to the uk so even if you choose northern ireland and you
are being posted to northern ireland you don't have anything to worry about job wise because
you already have your job but if you are coming with your husband and your husband is not a nurse
your husband is not in the head feed your husband is maybe um like another profession
an engineer or something else and your husband really wants to continue working in his feet then
the options here in northern ireland are very very limited unless you go to big cities like belfast
london dairy like major big cities in northern ireland it's going to be very difficult for you to
find a job for your husband here even as a nurse here at times it can be hard to find jobs for
example if i decide to leave my nursing home job and go to the nhs i think i would like to work in
the icu unit and i've actually been trying to look for icu job openings around me here in northern
ireland and so far i've not gotten a really good response most of the openings are in england
and very few in scotland so northern ireland does not really have a lot of job opportunities for um
for you as a nurse and even for your partner or any other person that is coming with you
but if your husband or your wife is comfortable working as a maybe a receptionist or
a customer care representative in mcdonald's in um or as a care assistant then fine
nothing i learned is good so let's talk about raising children in northern ireland
i actually think raising kids in northern ireland is kind of a good place because northern ireland
is kind of quiet it's calm it's peaceful you don't have to worry a lot about criminal activities
as compared to other big cities in england but there is a disadvantage to that the thing with
northern ireland is that it's not really we don't have a lot of diversity here so you don't have a
lot of blacks a lot of africans caribbeans they are mostly white irish people here so your kid
might find it hard to kind of integrate and blend in with others now i'm not trying to say that um
they are racial discrimination or um your child is going to suffer from racism i'm not trying to
say that at all in fact quite the opposite because people living in northern ireland they're actually
very friendly i remember the first time i came to northern ireland and everybody was
so helpful so nice my neighbor was so helpful when i moved into this house my tap was not
running i was i really didn't know what to do i went to the nestor neighbor to find out if
maybe there was a special place that it was being locked or something and he even caught somebody to
come and see see to it and he told me not to worry about the bees he paid for it and everything was
on my i have a good relationship with my neighbors and they are actually very helpful here like
again walking along the street is very easy to walk up to a stranger and ask for directions and
they actually go out of their way to help you so funny story i actually went to
england in january and i was kind of lost because i was standing in the bus stop and there was a lot
of activities so many buses going to and through i didn't really know the bus to take so i walked up
to this african lady standing close to me in the bus station and i was asking her where what bus
to take and she was very rude she just acted as if she was not hearing me she completely snubbed
me and that was really rude in northern ireland i never experienced anything like that and i just
hated it i hated it i just concluded that i could never ever live in london even in london it's like
living in lagos it's very fast-paced nobody really pays attention to you they are just going about
their business so i feel like living in northern ireland you have this community feeling some
towns in northern ireland are really very small and almost everybody knows everybody living in
northern ireland it's like living in a country kind of place so it's just kind of friendly
family oriented and things like that so i feel like northern ireland is really a good place to
bring up children it might be hard for you to find a school for your child to attend that have other
african kids some people might not really have any issues with it some kids might might find it like
adventurous and blend easily but some people that are conscious about things like that i just think
you should put that into consideration too so now that i've covered um coming to northern ireland
as a family let's talk about living in northern ireland as a single man or a single woman now
if you are single and you want to mingle northern ireland might not actually be the best place for
you to find company because like i said nothing i learned is not really very diverse so we have a
lot of whites a lot of irish guys here and if you are not really open to interracial dating if you
want to just date black men black women you might not have a lot of options to choose from because
well you might if you go to big cities like belfast and londonderry or other portrush you
know other big cities in northern ireland but if you are unfortunate and you are posted to a small
town in northern ireland you might not find a lot of options and also activities in northern ireland
are really not much it's we have some activities through even for children we have activities for
kids amusement parks and of course it's not it's nothing compared to england england has a lot of
options they have a lot of activities that you can engage in northern ireland it's more conservative
it's more nature friendly that's another thing i actually love about northern ireland i love nature
i just love this environment where i'm surrounded by nature so northern ireland is has this country
kind of feeling it it's kind of a country so you can just get in your car and drive and see
the open road you see everything natural out there go to natural reserves and have fun have a picnic
and you feel at peace with yourself and one with nature those are the kind of activities i love but
if you are somebody that loves to party you like going to clubs you want to um explore you want
to go to all the activities and everything all these shows everything happening then you might
not really have a lot of those options in northern ireland because not a lot of concerts happen in
northern ireland most of them are in england so if you are somebody that wants to be in the heart of
everything happening you want to experience everything at the same time not an island can come
off as boring to you unless you go to major cities of course but even if you go to major cities it's
not really the same as when you are in england the thing i don't like about northern ireland
is the weather the weather is so unpredictable it seems as if it's raining it's cold all the time
even during the summer it's cold i remember my friend's winter experience here in december or
november i can't remember again there was a day that we had the four seasons in one day well let
me not say the four seasons but it's something like this it was very windy at night it's not in
the morning the sun came up in the afternoon and it rained in the evening all happened in one day
shocking i know but that is not an island for you especially unexpected when it comes to weather
aspects so i guess you should not really pay much attention to the weather it's not really
relevant in this whole decision making process of whether you should come to northern ireland or not
even if it's rainy or bad or the weather is cold you have winter clothes you have umbrellas
so that is something that you can actually live with but things like raising your family
your savings and getting a job trying to um date you know things like that those are things that
are going to affect your future so you know when you come to the uk you are signing a contract for
three years and i don't really want you to sign a contract move to the uk and then decide that
this place that you are you don't like it and you want to move somewhere else so i feel like
that is why you should actually research a lot before signing your contract so research a lot
about where you want to live if you want to live in northern ireland then sign a contract and stick
it out for the three years at the end of three years you can do whatever you want to do but
be prepared so these are the things that you should actually put into consideration before
signing your contract and before moving here for three years now i didn't really say much about
um england okay maybe i said a little bit about england but i didn't really say much about
scotland in this video scotland is just like northern ireland just that it's a little bit
more expensive than northern ireland but not as expensive as england and you have
more options in scotland actually so about the diversity if you go to cities like edinburgh
and glasgow you have a lot of african communities there and you also have african food stalls there
i love living in northern ireland i would not trade it for anywhere else i love
northern ireland so much and if i am to leave northern ireland i'll probably go to scotland
if i decide to change my job and go to the nhs because i want to work in the icu that would be
the only reason for me to go to scotland but right now i love living in northern ireland i
enjoy living in northern ireland it has everything checked in my list and this is just where i want
to be for now but i'm different and you are different that is why you need to think about
all these things before deciding on where you want to spend the next three years or you want to leave
or you want to call home for as long as you want so thank you so much guys for watching
this video to the end if all right my birthday is second which is on friday actually i'm going
to try to post this video before then so if this video comes out before then please
wish me a happy birthday in the comment section and thank you so much i really really love talking
to you guys thank you for watching this video to the end and i really hope that you make the right
decision and i hope that i did not discourage you from moving to northern ireland or moving
to england remember we are all different what matters to me most might not matter to you most
i just um talked about the things that i think you should put into consideration when picking
where you want to live in the uk so thank you so much for watching this video on the next time bye