Switching lifestyles in Lagos

Sunday is a day most Christians cherish because we get to go to church and be in God's presence, dancing, praying joining different department meetings and also meeting with friends we've seen for the past week or weeks if they had skipped church like I did today.

I had to skip church today because I needed to leave my apartment on the Island in Lagos here in Nigeria because of my rent expiration which last for the ending of this month.

At times I wonder, why is living expenses so high on the Island in Lagos? Is it because it is referred or pronounced as Island (high-land)? Like from the look of things, it's evident that there is no difference in the quality or quantity of products or things that are been sold or purchased in both locations but the huge difference in price will be or more than 50% depending on what the consumer is purchasing.
Let's say the cost of transporting to the Island should be the difference which should get the cost of good a bit more than the mainland because both lands (either main or high) are still in the city of Lagos 💁 but NO! the difference in cost is too much.

Cost of renting a suitable apartment for living is either close to a million or in millions of naira just for a shared apartment or a room self contained, NOT a complete bedroom flat o. Like for real? The hike in amount added by house agents are also unbelievable.
The Island Agency fee is 10% of the rent but that doesn't stop them from adding other fees, caution fee is another 10% or even more, legal fee (I don't understand) and some unexplainable fees not considering state of tenants or those who wants to rent an apartment. The way house agents are even getting fatter than house owners is another topic to discuss.

Another instance, a tuber of yam you would buy at a maximum price of 3,000 on the mainland is 6,000 on the Island or probably you put it down on time and take your move before you get insulted by the vendor if you're not buying it at that price.
So I kept wondering, let's just say that Island is only designed for the rich high-class and middle-class people even though there's the ghetto area for low-class people but are the poor also not destined to live in good places?

So I wasn't willing to renew my rent and decided to move back to the mainland. Island living expenses is not for the weak (and when I mean weak, it's not like strength weakness but financially) and in life, when you know your limits you won't bite more than you can chew.
On my way, I took a picture of my amazing church, I'll miss them though but I had no option as life must go on.

But guess what! Another issue is for these gluttonous agents return the so called caution fee they added when you want to rent the apartment. It is always hard before you see these agents return caution fee and I think this has become their tradition except being dragged which I doubt anyone would wanna waste time doing with them though there are instances of tenants who dragged house agents or house owners to police station but at the end, will law take it's place to settle accordingly? I guess No!

It's a whole complicated issue when it comes to securing apartment and living in Lagos majorly on the Island and I think no matter the measures the government try to put in place, it still won't affect anything.

I'll be dropping my pen here because it's so exhausting thinking about them and I know many people are victims of this situation.

Thanks for reading through 🤗