Then, what and how do they save? It is foolish to live beyond your means, even if it for free!

i feel that being middle class in kenya determined by your lifestyle more that income or where you live. Thats why you find a 45 year old guy with his own company and property all around nai with a 3 car garage living in Buru and a 25 year old earning 30k and living in a 20k sq in kile. the social economic classification of A, B, C1, C2 D & E is flawed as it focuses on income, residential area and only takes into account the bread winners income and not household income.

A better way would be the Living Standard Measure, LSM as we call it that divides the Kenyan population in 17 LSM with 1 being the poorest & LSM 17 being the richest. Middle class from an LSM perspective starts from LSM 7 to around LSM 13 being based on the standard of living.

Please elaborate more on the LSM bundles e.g LSM 1 is this lifestyle, LSM 2 is that life style etc.

I know of a wazuan who drives an NZE and lives in Highrise/or somewhere in West and makes so much noise that "we the middle class will bla bla bla..."
Ha ha ha haaaa...

You want to know who is a member of the middle class? Are you a member of wazua... look at yourself,you are middle class!

Why this obsession with class? A subconcious hangover from the british?

Middle class in Kenya = “struggling to keep heads above water” class

unfortunately it does