A friend of mine met a really cute Nigerian girl at a nightclub in Lagos recently. He’s got a certain je ne sais quoi with the ladies. So he approached her, chatted her up for about an hour or so, and was lucky enough to walk away with her phone number and her house address. She asked him to visit her sometime. He promised he would, but he never did.
The reason is this: The lady lives in Banana Island, Nigeria’s most expensive residential area. There are only a few privileged men who can afford to date a girl who lives in Banana Island. My friend is not yet a part of the privileged few.
http://www.houseretail.com/blog/forbes-names-banana-island-most-expensive-neighbourhood-in-nigeria-at-6million-per-land.html

tell that girl to date yuzedo. He is reach, hamsone, and he leaves in banana iceland.
I will soon be reach too

Banana island is a joke and only a brainless person will waste money on such a super expensive mediocre estate. Now let me show you what luxury living at reasonable prices look like:

http://www.google.com/search?q=meyerdals+eco+estate&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.48572450,d.ZWU&biw=1092&bih=529&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=F3rRUYiVL6jR7Ab56YGoBA

The above is Meyersdal Eco Estate in South Africa.That is a 1st class estate that has won many awards but the homes there are 70% cheaper than the homes in banana Island even though they are superior in every way possible to banana island homes.Just goes to show you that Nigeria is a crazy country where nonsense is celebrated.

Now here are a couple of other Estates which are a million times better than banana island even though are 70% cheaper:

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Centurion Residential Estate & Country Club

http://choa.co.za/about/home

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Aspen Hills Nature estate

http://www.aspenestates.co.za/

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Dainfern Golf & Residential Estate

www.dainfern.co.za
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Cedar Lakes Residential Estate

http://www.cedarlakes.co.za/

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Blair Atholl Estate

http://www.blairatholl.co.za/

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Dainfern Ridge Estate

http://www.dainfernridge.co.za/

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Eagle Canyon Golf Estate

http://www.eaglecanyongolfestate.co.za/

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Ebotse Golf Estate

http://www.ebotsegolf.com/

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These are just a few of the world class award winning estates in Guateng -South Africa ,if you want to see the full list go here : http://www.stedonehomes.co.za/estate-summary/gauteng/

All the above estates have top notch planing and management unlike banana Island which is just another over hyped ,poorly managed, over priced, mediocre estate.I mean banana island does not even have an official website,that just shows me that it is a complete joke and another over hyped estate to scam gullible Nigerians who are too stupid to know how to get value for their money.

Banana island is just an another venture where the criminals in Nigeria can show off their stolen loot hence why they buy the ridiculously priced lands in banana island without batting an eyelid.If you work for your money you can never buy a house in banana Island ,it just defies logic.I am mean for fxcks sake Banana Island is even more expensive than some Miami waterfront condos.Why will i go and invest so much money in Banana Island where there is no constant electricity ,no drainage system,no pipe borne water,no traffic lights or clean roads when i could invest less than half of the same amount in quality housing overseas.

We Nigerians need to get our heads of the gutter and start demanding value for our money instead of celebrating such foolish extravagance with zero quality.Another failure of banana island is the Adenuga house.In civilized countries you can not build an office building in a residential estate.In Nigeria however Adenuga builds his home and office side by side in Banana island which is supposed to be a residential Estate.Nigerians are just too d.u.m.b to do things the right way.Such a shame for a country that claims to produce intellectuals.This is why our country is regressing instead of progressing.We always do things backwards and never follow rules.The only thing Banana island got right is the name.Nigeria is a banana republic where everything goes so banana island is a befitting name for that eyesore of an estate.

I did a comparison of the ridiculously priced housing sector in Nigeria and the reasonably priced housing sector in South Africa a few days ago,you can take a look at it here so that you know how much you are being scammed by Nigerian property developers:

https://www.nairaland.com/1338743/why-nigerian-properties-expensive

In South Africa ,a person as young as 21 can own a house because they make it affordable for their citizens and provide housing loans. In Nigeria a 21 year old will need to do 419 or sells drugs before he can even dream of owning a house. We have heartless leaders in Nigeria hence why everything is just upside down.

My hope is that just as South Africa has revamped our retail sector ,telecoms sector and banking sector that they will help us revamp our housing sector so that we can get rid of all these ridiculous prices which ensures that housing is out of the reach of the average man.

@^^ up.
i will rather live in over expensive banana island than one cheap xenophonic country/island that will plant drug in your "manshun" and kill you at will