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Rank: Member Joined: 12/21/2009 Posts: 602
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Oy! some of us cannot be helped...I prefer to step out of my house and see the mama mboga, the mbembe and the makaa guy.
I find some of these resorts and isolated neighborhoods sterile and lifeless--Kila Nyani na stare zake
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 7/12/2016 Posts: 39 Location: Nairobi
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Karen was more isolated on the past, but only fairly recently with the new arrivals & their conspicuous consumption habits have thugs started terrorising residents for hours which I am sure has contributed to the exodus from some of those 0.5acre & 1 acre lots for safer apartments & gated communities.
A key feature of the isolated Mzungu lifestyle is gun ownership and being an expert handler like the late Delamere whose aim was unerring. Any robber would need to have a serious death wish to mess with them. The new money & their offspring seem more keen on drunkenly terrorizing fellow revellers in clubs with their guns.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/5/2011 Posts: 1,059
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 [/quote] You mean this is Karen,sad green is everything, I have done a few houses in Vipingo where some of the karen Mzungus ran to, in vipingo when you buy an acre of land your agreement states that you can only put up a house covering at-most 20X20 meters, a certain height and thats it, the rest must be green even though it's yours, few years now the place looks amazing not because of the houses but because of the green, the access roads are the type with 2 tire tracks and grass in between works very well, no need to cover the soil with full cabro. To Each His Own
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/16/2007 Posts: 2,114
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Looks rather bland...why not build fewer houses,have some greenery and then increase the price? hardwood wrote:The old vs new karen. All the trees are gone. Also gone are the warthogs, monkeys, birds etc. And replaced with concrete and cabro in so called gated communities. Not even a patch of grass or greenery.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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kayhara wrote:You mean this is Karen,sad green is everything, I have done a few houses in Vipingo where some of the karen Mzungus ran to, in vipingo when you buy an acre of land your agreement states that you can only put up a house covering at-most 20X20 meters, a certain height and thats it, the rest must be green even though it's yours, few years now the place looks amazing not because of the houses but because of the green, the access roads are the type with 2 tire tracks and grass in between works very well, no need to cover the soil with full cabro. Yes its karen. Bogani palms. Houses going for 130m. Unbelievable. https://www.villacareken...OGANI-PALM---KAREN-crm/
There are even multifamily homes nowadays like the one below. 
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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chiaroscuro wrote:shanoka wrote:Someone told me most of the jungus who used to live in Karen left because of the influx of "others" into the area. Is this true? Where did they go? When people started subdividing their 5-acre plots into 1-acres and later into halves, the luster of Karen faded and those who value green suburbia moved out. It has nothing to do with race. It's just a question of your definition of "peaceful environment" Same has happened in Kilimani, Kileleshwa and Lavington. Muthaiga is still holding out but only time will tell. Very true.
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/27/2014 Posts: 560 Location: Eastlando
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You mean this is Karen,sad green is everything, I have done a few houses in Vipingo where some of the karen Mzungus ran to, in vipingo when you buy an acre of land your agreement states that you can only put up a house covering at-most 20X20 meters, a certain height and thats it, the rest must be green even though it's yours, few years now the place looks amazing not because of the houses but because of the green, the access roads are the type with 2 tire tracks and grass in between works very well, no need to cover the soil with full cabro. [/quote] How much does an acre go for in vipingo?. The old Karen is my dream retirement home. when my grandchildren visit during school holidays , they can play in my garden. showing a different side of africa than what they see on tv. This is what my parents in law did and the family is very grateful to them. You have enough space for kids to play and it is all green.
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2015 Posts: 682
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hardwood wrote:kayhara wrote:You mean this is Karen,sad green is everything, I have done a few houses in Vipingo where some of the karen Mzungus ran to, in vipingo when you buy an acre of land your agreement states that you can only put up a house covering at-most 20X20 meters, a certain height and thats it, the rest must be green even though it's yours, few years now the place looks amazing not because of the houses but because of the green, the access roads are the type with 2 tire tracks and grass in between works very well, no need to cover the soil with full cabro. Yes its karen. Bogani palms. Houses going for 130m. Unbelievable. https://www.villacareken...OGANI-PALM---KAREN-crm/
Those are million dollar houses?! 
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Rank: Chief Joined: 1/3/2007 Posts: 18,346 Location: Nairobi
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Mike Ock wrote:hardwood wrote:kayhara wrote:You mean this is Karen,sad green is everything, I have done a few houses in Vipingo where some of the karen Mzungus ran to, in vipingo when you buy an acre of land your agreement states that you can only put up a house covering at-most 20X20 meters, a certain height and thats it, the rest must be green even though it's yours, few years now the place looks amazing not because of the houses but because of the green, the access roads are the type with 2 tire tracks and grass in between works very well, no need to cover the soil with full cabro. Yes its karen. Bogani palms. Houses going for 130m. Unbelievable. https://www.villacareken...OGANI-PALM---KAREN-crm/
Those are million dollar houses?! Add another $250,000  Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
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