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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/8/2018 Posts: 2,212 Location: DC (Dustbowl County)
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winmak wrote:
I am curious what is this being built in a day requiring all these materials?
A retaining wall, my broda.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/8/2018 Posts: 2,212 Location: DC (Dustbowl County)
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Angelica _ann wrote:
And is he costing his time sleeping or reading the novel???
That time is already costed into the cap gains on sale my sista  Why work as an employee for crumbs when one can read a book and sleep their way to wealth
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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The "dust bowl" of kitengela has become green. Very nice developments there ...complete with swimming pools, manicured lawns and picket fences. You'd think you are in California, USA. https://www.businessdail...5408-ekfhuiz/index.html
 
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/8/2018 Posts: 2,212 Location: DC (Dustbowl County)
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hehehehehe indeed. Those are beautiful. But shhhhhh, let's allow the "dust bowl" propaganda to spread so some of us can buy more at affordable prices in the area. As soon as the major link roads are tarmacked everything will double in price in no time to our benefit.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/13/2015 Posts: 1,656
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The result of watching too much "desparate housewives". The dust bowl has no culture, no theaters, no street life, no festivals. You can't even name one book that talks about life in the dust bowl. There is no life experienced in this fantasy suburbia. Suburbia sucks Quote:Far from posing a mere logistical or aesthetic problem, it shapes–or perhaps more accurately, it circumscribes–our experience of life and our social relationships in insidious ways. The destruction of the pedestrian public realm is not merely an economic or ecological absurdity; it has real deleterious effects. For just one small example of many: life in a subdivision cul-de-sac keeps children from exploring and becoming conversant with the wider world around them, because it tethers their social lives and activities to their busy parents’ willingness to drive them somewhere. There’s literally nowhere for them to go. The spontaneity of childhood in the courtyard, on the street, or in the square gives way to the managed, curated, prearranged “play-date.” Small wonder that kids retreat within the four walls of their house and lead increasingly electronic lives. (The virtues of a private backyard are easily exaggerated; it’s vacuous and isolated, and kids quickly outgrow it.) https://qz.com/698928/why-suburbia-sucks/
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/13/2015 Posts: 1,656
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Quote:So, people are always surprised when I lean on this aspect of the US critically, as a primary reason for low quality of life. It’s a topic that receives so little attention it may as well be categorised as “a problem that has no name”. The reality, however, is that the impact of this way of designing the world goes far beyond mere aesthestics–which, by the way, are terrible; the suburban landscape is unrivaled in its monotony and depressing blandness. The problem is more insidious, though; the way that we build our settlements has deep implications for our civic life, our communities, our patterns of interaction, the relationships we form, the company we keep, and ultimately, the purpose and meaning we find in our lives.
Much of the rest of the world takes for granted architectural principles of how to build life-affirming human settlements. These principles evolved over thousands of years, and it’s no accident that so many cultures reached the same conclusions. Urban Europeans, and indeed Armenians, are accustomed to vertical growth, mixed-use development (shops on first floor, apartments above), sidewalks, plazas, public squares and street cafes. These are the fixtures amidst which your halcyon childhood days played out, where you walked hand in hand with your first love, where you met friends for coffee, and hopped the train to work. It’s the corner with the pastry shop, it’s the supermarket down the street, and the bench in between.
...A lot of your energy and money and will go toward the purchase and upkeep of a rapidly depreciating hunk of metal in which you will spend a significant fraction of your life, all alone.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 8/28/2015 Posts: 1,247
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MugundaMan wrote:Amusing real estate conmanship habits in Kenya that I can never understand.
1. Bait and switch scam: An agent advertises in bold letters that he has a prime plot in "Kitengela" at a very appealing price per acre compared to prices in the area. You click the add with enthusiasm or call him urgently trying to get a site visit and he tells you it is in Isinya, Kajiado or Ilbissil and 5km from tarmac at that! Since when did those areas become "Kitengela." Sometimes you feel you want to throw such people into Lake Amboseli for wasting your time.
2. Runda -"View" scam: This one you already know of. Muchatha becomes "Runda View." Gachie becomes "Rosslyn View" and Maroroi/Kimuka becomes "Ngong view." Bure kabisa!
3. Terrible photo scam: Very prime area advertised for sale but with a terrible photo perhaps of the ground. You call the agent to find out where the place is and it quickly becomes numer 1 or number 2 above. Run like the wind whenever the agent puts a terrible photo in any advert anywhere.
4. Elusive title scam: This one usually applies to so called "40x80" or basically anything less than an 1/8th of an acre plotis. The area may be prime but please run away from these guys as fast as you can as there is no title for the plotis. If there is, those titles are 100% bandia. Run also when you start getting "stories" about title e.g. I have not subdivided yet, but as soon as you pay deposit I will subdivide. Danganya mwingine boss!
5. Black Cotton Soil scam: Be very very careful when buying plots on very sticky black cotton soil. They are usually found at the bottom of swampy areas or river valley beds. Ask the seller if you can bring your KYM guy to come and chimba a test hole to see how deep the murram or bedrock is. If he gives you stories trying to stop you from doing it, run. If he agrees and your KYM guy is still digging past 3 metres with no murram or bedrock in sight, run even faster!
Zingine? Where is that like button again. Nah. The few kms just turns out to be a jungle or country man ride. Never mind, the main road bridge is under diversion and it's shorter nini stories. Nah. ,Behold, a sower went forth to sow;....
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 8/28/2015 Posts: 1,247
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obiero wrote:muandiwambeu wrote:obiero wrote:muandiwambeu wrote:davidkenya wrote:hey folks can 1 million ksh build me a three bedroom house with a small kitchen inside,toilet and bathroom (combined).the roofing is of corrugated sheets , and the stones are artificially manufactured (what are they called?)the house should also have electricity and running water yes. need assistance? Its impossible, even with very basic finishing; unless its semipermanent little/no foundation Xaxa ona huyu,,,,,,,,😋😋 So everybody in Kenya who owns a ssbs house in Kenya is a multi-millioneer. Then Kenya must be a very real Wacha kelele bwana. Labor cost alone on a 3 bedroom permanent house can not be less than KES 200,000, materials even in resource rich location KES 500,000; relevant approvals KES 100,000, finishing KES 300,000.. And that is for a very basic house, hata septic, fence, plumbing, electric sijaweka kwa hii example.. Ukiona nyumbe permanent imesimama in 2018, jua more than 1m ilitumika @obiero, the guy wanted a basic 3bdrm have, did I hear fenching brrr in that. Even a billion would not fenching jomos homestead shamba for your info. So far it's 21days and am roofing a unit, 4brms and above a basic one. Kujipanga ni mumu.Watch and learn. This one I have had to sign it to be certain no room for kieleele ya umakanga hapo. Nikifika, mtakujia hadithi. ,Behold, a sower went forth to sow;....
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Tatu City chair claims foreign directors wired out Sh6.5bn Tatu City link
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Rank: User Joined: 8/15/2013 Posts: 13,237 Location: Vacuum
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Wororo wrote:Tatu City chair claims foreign directors wired out Sh6.5bn Tatu City link Nyagah and Vimal are conmen....Take that to the bank If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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