You are in fact buttressing my point, my braddah:



Its population has always been its strength, except when disastrous policies (and forms of government) have been adopted by (or imposed upon) its leaders!




With all due respect, this is good comedy.






This is a statement not worth any response in light of the GDP numbers above.

Shalom!

hehehehe someone needs to calm down, pick up an economics book and relearn what nominal GDP is and why it is the most important economic metric. This is the problem with Wazoo. Wajuaji ni mingi and when you debunk their dogmas they are not very happy. Shalom!

someone is desperately trying to convince himself that he is very smart on matters economics that are clearly beyond his ken.

Knock yourself out papa

I would also support per capita GDP as a better measure of a country's output. Econ undergrad there was a whole subtopic of why GDP is a poor measure of economic growth.

Size na pesa ngapi, my braddah? Title in your name?

If those indeed are the plots and the prices that's a super deal for Acacia.
Imagine trying to buy that plot in Lavington. You would have to fork out 200 metre bare minimum. This is why DC is the future. It is a no-brainer really. Just like there was a giant whooshing sucking sound as American corporations were drawn to China starting in 1978, so too is the giant whooshing sound of the urban moneyed Nairobi middle class who are interested in maintaining (or enhancing) their standard of living instead of renting for life or buying cramped apartments and living like Univeristy students in crowded hostels in Nairobi core. More space, more value, bigger size land, owning a home that is appreciating in value every day. Like I said, the rush to DC (Rongai, Kitengela, Ngong, Kiserian, Tuala etc) is inevitable and arguing against it is like arguing that the sun will not rise kesho. Even if Mulmulwas MM dropped dead kesho it will still happen as it has been happening for the past 20 years +.

The commute has to be fixed for DC to become the new Lavington OR kAREN. It's too far from the economic hub so unless the economic hub moves from CBD, Westlands, upperhill to mlolongo or Athi River DC will never be Karen.

Amenities have to improve to match and compete with CBD, upperhill, Westlands. Please don't say you have a hospital or a shopping mall. Match and compete is the level that hospitals, specialist, distributors, wholesalers, mechanics, specialist shops, markets, ........ this list is soooo long should all prefer taking business to DC before DC becomes the new Karen or Lavington.

Boss the things that have to change and the challenges that DC have to overcome to becomes the new Lavington.... GOD help us!!!

Mr Ploti Maguta Maguta DC is great. You can make money and probably a lot of money lakini PLEASE STOP LYING that DC will be the new Lavington in our lifetimes. Stop it!

It's funny how you ask for an honest answer to an insult and logical fallacies??

Mr Ploti Maguta Maguta, There is a feature on Wazua called user profile, click on it then go to last 10 post click on it then click on all user post and then please please reply to the post and show that post. I promise you I will Mpesa you 1000 STAT!

Anyway seeing that you didn't address any of my points on commute, amenities, economic hub etc and decided my points should only be validated if I own a pit latrine that has ended the discussion.

Ukipata post reply to it and I will MPESA you the moneY other than that keep on keeping on .... DC forever, the world ends in DC, DC mwisho and whatever else you want to convince people to buy ploti maguta maguta!!

Mulmulwas MM, Nairobi core is undergoing serious rejuvenation. I'm loving the growing sophistication in restaurants and clubs-better ambiance and food variety, refurbished pedestrian friendly streets like Luthuli Avenue, Moi lane and others like Banda street coming up. Even the River road small shops are being set up with awesome interiors. Huko lower Kirinyaga road-Grogan Chinaman has started working on the Nairobi river to have a waterfront. In westlands, Riverside and parklands too lots of good stuff coming up.Proper urban roads are coming up with cycle paths.

Dustbowl won't compete with Nairobi core anytime soon.

Actually it is a peeing contest-counties that are livable in terms of price, amenities and jobs will attract more residents.

Isn't that the point that burbs will continue to attract people starting out on the property ladder not necessarily the urban moneyed middle class who are interested in enhancing their standard of living. It's a gold rush(new frontier mindset) and that's why there is a boom in DC properties. The DC boom will plateau in time and it won't catch up with Nairobi core. As Nairobi core becomes more sophisticated with a younger more educated generation it will displace those priced out to the burbs. That's when you'll see property prices stagnate.

"Poor people who’ve moved to the suburbs tend to be farther away from their jobs, and in many areas where public transportation is poor; there are few ways to make the connections needed to get there."

“People who might once have been able to get a job locally are now either travelling for a very long time at a high cost or, when they do the calculation on transport cost and [commute] time, they’re [ending up] not working”