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.

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Halafu those Houses are soo huge and ugly, small windows, cheap and basic materials like those in the kitchen, no green space.

So as a middle class person, is moving out there really an option? Or is this really just a an old money mzungu option...

Is it safer being in the middle of nowhere, just you and your gun, surrounded by likely poorer communities?

Apart from that, the thought of living in a green place with fresh air in a ranch house is very appealing. Not in a huge, cold, echoing mansion...but the isolation and distance from the rest of my immediate family and friends would be a drawback.

Karen When an acre was 15 pounds:

Yep, Africans didn't have that type of dough.

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.

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Hi @ Kayhara.

I suppose you are talking about Vipingo Beach Estate.
It is true that you can only build a single family home with a maximum foot print of 400 sq m.
You can only build a 2 storey house on row 1, 3 storey on row 2. They are now selling rows 3 @ 4.

I live there on row 2, with a house that has a foot print of 30 sq m. However, it is 3 storeys diving me a total built area of 90 sq m.

The rest of the one acre plot is all garden - apart from the driveway and parking.

As the soil is all coral rock & sand, I had to bring in about 30 lorry loads of
top soil from Vipingo ridge.
I now have a lawn, about 30 different palm trees, bougainvilleas, desert roses, Neem trees, fruit trees etc. Basically anything that grows well at the coast. After living all my life in Nairobi, I don't miss the hustle and bustle of town living.
Life is calm, quite and very good.,