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Realtreaty wrote:Got a chance to visit some friends outside Kenya and i envied what they enjoy that we never have when one owns or rents a property especially villas or flats.
Our Kenyan property is more expensive but lacks a lot. The space we boast of here is much smaller, i can tell you in Kenya before you buy a sofa set you need fundi to first measure your door and corridor size else the sme sofa won't go in. After a small sofa set is in (3 pcs) and a wall unit our house is full while out there aflat accommodates 6 pcs, wall unit,fridge,dining table set and children have space to play.
Out there toilet is separate from bathroom while ours is same cubical with less facilities.
The issue of flowing water is one more thing. The Veranda that made you like your flat will end up being a space for water drums in Kenya, you even cannot buy washing machine as need flowing water and our city council has water on vendors carts.
One more the way the room is illuminated, we have central single bulb theory, single switch. There you find quite a change. Security is one more, here in Kenya, anyone can access your entry corridor or door, children marking and playing your door(all that noise on the stair, doors just opposite each other etc, out there good houses with alternate door, your entry corridor save and only yours ensuring privacy and security.
I would like our investors to know that once kenya becomes developed country, those building they call flats in Kayole,Dandora, Umoja, Embakasi, kangemi, Eastleigh will be useless.
We need less houses on a plot to call them Villas(Maisonettes) or Flats it's until I moved to Mombasa that I saw bulbs on the wall rather than the ceiling but I think it's to allow for a ceiling fan, also most new apartments in Nyali have a 1.2 meter entrance doors an entry porch where you leave your shoes, a kitchen and a big kitchen yard where they do the charcoal cooking the rooms are also very spacious and toilets are rarely mixed with bathrooms even in low cost shared plot toilets, in Nairobi it's about how many bedsitters you can get in a plot not the quality of living, in many flats furniture has to be brought up from the atrium or the balcony or disassembled then back again, stairs you can't pass each other, and the those dark rooms that never get sunlight, in architecture it's advisable to live in a space where you can look out of the window and see the sky or at least the trees and the outside in Nairobi this is a dream and most of you never open your windows because your bedroom window opens to the neighbours bedroom window too. To Each His Own
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