Ife Vs. Lagos

Ife’s an interesting city,

The city’s larger than the one that we used to live in in the States (Durham), and you can see a lot of Yoruba culture here, because Ife in Yoruba religion is the first place on Earth ever created by their God, Oduduwa. But there are also some downfalls. Like how the computer stores don’t hold as many as the things as the ones in Lagos do, and there aren’t any movie theaters, and stuff like that. These were some of the reasons why, at a time, my sister, my mother, and I wanted to live in Lagos because it had all that stuff and more. Plus, it is a really big city and might be cooler than living amidst chickens and everything. My father doesn’t like Lagos though, and didn’t go for it at all; and I began to see why. One time, we were driving out of a hotel in Lagos to go to an acquaintance’s house, and the trip took 2 hours. It was liked we were parked there, in traffic. When we finally got there, the traffic had died down and when we went back to the hotel, the trip took us 7 minutes! HUUUGE difference. And that’s not the only problem in Lagos, the other one is that it’s so full of fumes and trash and junk, that it’s hard to breathe. Yes, Lagos has smog too. And also, it’s just way to hot sometimes, and when it is hot, you feel like you’re being baked in the Sun. Also it’s super crowded; the population is really, really big, which makes it much noisier, which makes it much harder to sleep, and also you aren’t gonna be able to see as many stars in the nighttime sky. So, I think I’ll stay in Ife.

Signing off,

The Traveler