In America, car dependency is ridiculous. As a Kenyan in the US, that was one of the biggest culture shock because I was literally grounded before I bought a car. This is one part Nairobi and Kenya in general shines, there is matatus, bodas, cheap ubers, etc. Here in the US you actually feel weird walking down the road as you're likely to be the only one.
Hi,greatness great contect about Nairobi,am a Kenyan born in Nairobi and its true Nairobi is a good city if you have money the climate is good,keep doing a great job.
You are right buddy 😊. What a great & reasonable breakdown! You are truly Kenyan 😅. Enjoy your stay & remember to visit other parts of the country. This is a great & blessed country. Cheers man! Greetings from Nakuru City 🎉.
You're right about different areas costing more. I have nice two bedroom ensuite apartments with security, 20 minutes from Nairobi and I only charge $300.00 a month including utilities. Where I live in America, I pay 1,700 for a 2 bedroom apartment 20 minutes from the city center. My apartment here isn't nearly as beautiful as the ones I own in Kenya. If you're an expat, you'll have a great quality of life in Nairobi
bro $1500 a month is crazy almost 70% of families here live with $100 - $150 a month comfortably .....but i do understand you living a booujie asss life....good video though ....
Thank you for sharing this information it is beneficial. I am heading to Kenya this month to find a place before I make my permanent move in January. Do you know anyone that maybe renting a house, or individual compound at the $200-$300 price range? It seems to be nothing but highrise apartments to rent in Nairobi and Mombasa.
Hello, try Thika and Kenyatta Road (prioritize this one especially). Almost an hour from the City center. I know of someone who was offering his house (5 bedroom) for Ksh 35,000 (individual compound in a gated community). He relocated to Australia where his family is, but I don't think it is currently available. It brings a semi-urban vibe but with all amenities you find in the city. Yes, you will get an own-compound at that range.
..organic means no GMOs ....just natural foods as nature intended...and yes, the food there is 100% organic. Fertilizer and pesticides are quite expensive there, so most small farms do the most they can with as little of that as possible to keep the costs down and hence reducing foods grown with them
If you are Caribbean or West African ancestry (African American) Kenya is technically not your ancestral land though. Those lands are along Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Liberia etc. Totally different peoples of the East, Nilotes, Cushites, and the Bantus here are not even natives themselves, but arrived in agricultural migration waves from the West.
@@PierreJJ. Africans have been moving across Africa at different times in human survival. All Africans are native to Africa. It is almost impossible to really claim that a certain language group is native to a specific region. For instance, the Sahara Desert was one lush and forested. We don't know who lived there. There were kingdoms North that rose and collapsed at different periods. There are Engaruka, Sirikwa, Eburi holes built by communities such as Wakwafi which disappeared from history in the late 1880s. Even ruins like Great Zimbabwe, Thimlich Ohinga, Gede, etc have a story to tell. Africans have always been on the move. The colonial boundaries is what appears to have slowed down our free movement. We only have snapshots of history and not a comprehensive picture of how things have been since the start of time. The latest Bantu tribes to move were escaping the Zulus in the South and others slave traders in West and Central Africa.
Nairobi has a place for everyone. You are right though, Mombasa is more affordable. Seen good houses in Nyali going for a fraction of what you get in Nairobi. Interestingly, most Kenyans do not like the Coast. We only want to visit once in a while.
To foreigners like Americans when they compare what they are charged or their lifestyle In US compared to Nairobi living a classier lifestyle, Nairobi is not expensive. So it depends on where you come from and how you've been living. Everyone is different. If you ask a Kenyan then of course they will not say nairobi is cheap but then again if you talk to Kenyans who are well off and can afford it, they will say Kenya is cheaper than say South Africa or UK. That's how life works.
In America, car dependency is ridiculous. As a Kenyan in the US, that was one of the biggest culture shock because I was literally grounded before I bought a car. This is one part Nairobi and Kenya in general shines, there is matatus, bodas, cheap ubers, etc. Here in the US you actually feel weird walking down the road as you're likely to be the only one.
Depends on the city. The United States of America is huge! Kenya is heavily populated country the size of Texas.
Excellent video. Im in the uk 🇬🇧 and planning on relocating soon to Nairobi Kenya...thank you for the video!
Glad it was helpful!
Hi bro
Hi,greatness great contect about Nairobi,am a Kenyan born in Nairobi and its true Nairobi is a good city if you have money the climate is good,keep doing a great job.
You are right buddy 😊. What a great & reasonable breakdown! You are truly Kenyan 😅. Enjoy your stay & remember to visit other parts of the country. This is a great & blessed country. Cheers man! Greetings from Nakuru City 🎉.
You're right about different areas costing more. I have nice two bedroom ensuite apartments with security, 20 minutes from Nairobi and I only charge $300.00 a month including utilities. Where I live in America, I pay 1,700 for a 2 bedroom apartment 20 minutes from the city center. My apartment here isn't nearly as beautiful as the ones I own in Kenya. If you're an expat, you'll have a great quality of life in Nairobi
Where is this located? Looking for bnb/apartments when I arrive in Kenya in 2 months
Hi Greatness! Appreciate your videos about Kenya 🇰🇪 😊
Your analysis on Nairobi Kenya is on point...
You teuly cant rush greatness 💪💪
Thanks for the break down
nice video you are right if yo got money you stay like a king here
Great video. Can you do feature on banking in Kenya for diasporans? What is the best process? What are the best banks?
true.. way to represent..
Always love your Kenya updates, what apt are you at? Also would you be open to doing more apt tours out in the cities you recommended?
I'm heading back there next month
Cost of imports and taxes ultimately drive the prices up
Bro how do you sustain yourself living overseas?
I've been living here in Nairobi over 5 years now
New sub here good job
bro $1500 a month is crazy almost 70% of families here live with $100 - $150 a month comfortably .....but i do understand you living a booujie asss life....good video though ....
Stop misleading
That is almost the lowest of cadres and is definitely not 70% of families!!
More like $400. Those below that struggle.
drop the location where to live for $100 -$150?
I paid 385 for a month in South B! that's on Airbnb. So it would be cheaper if I had a real apartment.
Thank you for sharing this information it is beneficial. I am heading to Kenya this month to find a place before I make my permanent move in January. Do you know anyone that maybe renting a house, or individual compound at the $200-$300 price range? It seems to be nothing but highrise apartments to rent in Nairobi and Mombasa.
Hello, try Thika and Kenyatta Road (prioritize this one especially). Almost an hour from the City center. I know of someone who was offering his house (5 bedroom) for Ksh 35,000 (individual compound in a gated community). He relocated to Australia where his family is, but I don't think it is currently available. It brings a semi-urban vibe but with all amenities you find in the city. Yes, you will get an own-compound at that range.
Ngong, nice bungalows 3 bedroom house with own compound, a front yard, ample parking, in a gated community. The cost is about Ksh. 50,000 (US$390).
Thank you guys for the leads I will check them out when I arrive. Asante
Try neighborhoods on Thika road i.e. Ruiru, Kenyatta Road, Kahawa, Juja, Thika town. Try real estate agents.
Welcome to the motherland
I need freinds there fr I wanna relocate soon so we can hangout
Jesus loves you
Have you been to Tigoni, Kenya? They say it is the wealthiest village in Kenya
Naw, what is there?
@@KidGreatness .A few minutes drive outside Nairobi...It's a chilled place with great ambience
@@KidGreatnessCheck out Brackenhurst Centre in Tigoni for lunch and other excursions. The public place is run by the American Baptist mission.
Tigoni, Kentmere & Redhill is private upscale green suburbia
@@williamkamau1167 Thanks!
Do you think food is organic? There is no control about fertilizeres and pesticids .
..organic means no GMOs ....just natural foods as nature intended...and yes, the food there is 100% organic. Fertilizer and pesticides are quite expensive there, so most small farms do the most they can with as little of that as possible to keep the costs down and hence reducing foods grown with them
What is the cost of renting a 3 bedroom gated house NOT in the city?
100 to 150 max
@@darrowkimobo2627 right thats what I assumed. Maybe they are paying foreign prices. What place could you suggest?
@@Music-tf1yn Kiambu Area you can a three bedroom stand alone.14 km from CBD but excellent.I actually live here.
@@darrowkimobo2627 is it safe with security and gated fully furnished
We wanna know what to do for money ?
Bro how you been there 6 months when you where in poland last week
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You didn't hear me say in and out.
I offer free English lessons. You may want to enroll to avoid embarrassments.
I never understand how i can vacate my ancestral land and country to live in foreign land unless for vacation job home is home unless calamities 😅
People move to America all the time. Some countries you really don’t feel like you are a foreigner. I’ve lived in over 10 countries for 15 years.
If you are Caribbean or West African ancestry (African American) Kenya is technically not your ancestral land though. Those lands are along Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Liberia etc.
Totally different peoples of the East, Nilotes, Cushites, and the Bantus here are not even natives themselves, but arrived in agricultural migration waves from the West.
@@PierreJJ. Migration within the land of Africa is not nativeness if I was in carrebean as long as My ancestors died there thats home
@@PierreJJ. Africans have been moving across Africa at different times in human survival. All Africans are native to Africa. It is almost impossible to really claim that a certain language group is native to a specific region. For instance, the Sahara Desert was one lush and forested. We don't know who lived there. There were kingdoms North that rose and collapsed at different periods. There are Engaruka, Sirikwa, Eburi holes built by communities such as Wakwafi which disappeared from history in the late 1880s. Even ruins like Great Zimbabwe, Thimlich Ohinga, Gede, etc have a story to tell. Africans have always been on the move. The colonial boundaries is what appears to have slowed down our free movement. We only have snapshots of history and not a comprehensive picture of how things have been since the start of time. The latest Bantu tribes to move were escaping the Zulus in the South and others slave traders in West and Central Africa.
You’ve been institutionalized my brotha
Why this guy think everyone
Ant to waste money
He is an American. The average Kenyan budget is obviously less.
nairobi is expensive! mombasa is alot better ocean and a lot less
It is the capital so will definitely be more expensive than Mombasa.
Nairobi has a place for everyone. You are right though, Mombasa is more affordable. Seen good houses in Nyali going for a fraction of what you get in Nairobi. Interestingly, most Kenyans do not like the Coast. We only want to visit once in a while.
To foreigners like Americans when they compare what they are charged or their lifestyle In US compared to Nairobi living a classier lifestyle, Nairobi is not expensive. So it depends on where you come from and how you've been living. Everyone is different. If you ask a Kenyan then of course they will not say nairobi is cheap but then again if you talk to Kenyans who are well off and can afford it, they will say Kenya is cheaper than say South Africa or UK. That's how life works.
I'm in Mombasa now. I could definitt see myself getting an apartment in Bamburi.
@@jking5147 Bamburi is where magic happens.
All bulshit 1500 usd? 5000? Kenyan earn 70 usd per month salery
Yea he's misleading this type of info
thanks but you don't show the apartments ???????
Is it safe for white dudes
Yes
Why would it not I’m pretty sure they already there like everywhere else
There's a lot of white expats in Nairobi, but be careful going to wrong areas at night , that's all.
@@KidGreatnessWe have British and Americans as family.yes its safe for anyone.
Where do you currently live and why do you want to move to aftica