5 Reasons Why Living in Europe Or America SUCKS | Yet A Lot of Africans Want to Come Over

4. No One Really Cares About You, Not Even Your Neighbour

This is one of those things which is good and bad at the same time. It’s good because you live your life on your own terms without some area gossipers making your life their daily topic of conversation.

It’s bad because sometimes you need someone to talk to. I know of a Ghanaian woman who lives at some part of Germany where she hardly gets anyone to chat to. For her to have a proper conversation, she has to call her friends at different regions and even that, who has time to sit on the phone talking when the person is rushing to work?

In Europe and America, to find someone to even talk to, laugh with or share worrying issues with is a luxury—and a lot of people are lonely. You cannot walk to your neighbour and start ‘talking plenty’ like we do back home. Your neighbour is mostly busy or does not really care about what you do with your life.

There is no human connection and that sense of community-ship we enjoy back home is missing out here. It can get depression sometimes…You can’t go about greeting everyone you meet in your ‘hood’ or on your way to wherever. No one will probably respond or a lot of them will think you are mentally unstable.

People don’t really care beyond their own noses and you have to get use to living in such an environment. Empathy is never genuine, rather a procedure requirement. And when it comes to ‘smiles’, people smile to you because it’s their job to smile—they are taught how to smile.