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How is cost of living in Nairobi? From quick search it looks a bit more expensive than SE Asia or East Europe.
by jkot 10y ago
How is cost of living in Nairobi? From quick search it looks a bit more expensive than SE Asia or East Europe.
- Blahah 10y agoDepends on how you want to live. You can use Western facilities, restaurants, food items, etc. and pay similar costs to London. But you can also live on a couple of dollars a day buying locally produced food at markets, sticking to non-imported products and things not designed for immigrants. Accommodation inside Nairobi is fairly expensive, again similar to western prices, but you can get much cheaper accom outside the city - we just rented a big house with 1 acre of land for $500/m. And travel is very cheap, often < $1 for a 1 hour mutatu ride.
- jkot 10y agoYou can live cheaply everywhere. I do not mind to eat local food etc... But it sounds that Nairobi is fairly expensive when you want some basic standard.
- thebenedict 10y agoIf you're primarily looking for a cool place to work from or a digital nomad kind of lifestyle, you'd very likely do better in one of those places. Only consider Nairobi or elsewhere in E. Africa if you have a specific reason or interest in the region.
- Blahah 10y agoAgreed - the infrastructure for living that lifestyle is much better established in SE asia. I think it's perfectly feasible to do it successfully here, but there's much less of a history of people doing it.