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10 Struggles of Growing Up in a ‘Face-Me-I-Face-You’ Apartment 🏘️🇳🇬
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103 days agoIf you lived here, you experienced a whole community lifestyle in one building 👇
1. Privacy? What’s that? Everyone knew when you cooked beans. 🍲
2. One bathroom, ten people — schedule like exam timetable. 🚿
3. “Turn off that gen!” — the national argument every night. 🔌
4. Children from different families formed one football team. ⚽
5. Water-fetching queue had serious politics. 🪣
6. If someone cooked jollof, neighbors appeared “uninvited.” 😅
7. Your parents warned: “Don’t collect food from anybody.” 🙅
8. You greeted every adult like they were your uncle or aunty. 🙇
9. Every compound had a DJ — even if unplanned. 🔊
10. There was always one grandma who knew all your secrets. 🧓
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Growing up there built humility, friendship, and resilience.
It was tough, but it had heart ❤️
🔁 RT if this thread gave you flashbacks of bucket battles 😄
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