This month, very many of my neighbors have shifted. Houses are vacant all over. Could this be the impact of covid-19 and the global recession? Nothing has changed to justify their decisions to shift. Maji iko sawa, security is tight, nobody’s house has been broken into but right now the number of vacant houses in the estate is the highest I have ever seen since I moved here. Inakaa kameanza kunuka. Justsayin. This thing will hurt people’s pockets bigly.
nobody wants to stay in the crowded apartments of Thika Road. They are taking safety precaution measures
Economy ni kubaya watu wamelose majob na wengi wako on half salary ama unpaid leave kama haukuwa unasave saa hii ndo utafeel gharama ya maisha muhimu nikusukuma maguruduma za maisha na kuhope for better tomorrow
Saa hizi ni downscaling all over.
People have been laid off jobs, others on half pay and another bigger lot on unpaid leave whose duration is unknown.
Very soon you will start seeing non essential assets being disposed at throw away prices.
Those Subarus and Toyotas will be going at below half their market price as guys struggle to stay afloat.
It depends. The most affected are the middle class and below who live paycheck to paycheck. They have no shock absorbers to weather the storms…
Jamaa ako githurai fortee fae huku leafy suburbs tuko work as usual
In other news keshio nanunua sofa ya 90k at 34k
Kenyans will finally learn to keep distance? I’m hoping that the days of Kenyans being thisclose to each other in queues mpaka mtu anabreath hot air kwa sura yako are over. I think post Covid, things will still remain more cautiously distant…The other is biz investments. People are loosing so much money right now which is absolutely horrible but ppl also generally have leverage to make strategic investments during a crisis. I think any serious Kenyan starting a biz during this crisis will have opportunities that weren’t avail to most so I’m curious to see how this evolves.
Already they are being sold Kwa bei ya jioni. I saw a guy selling a Toyota wish KCA at 380k. I want to dispose my jalopy and get a better spacious van. Now is the time.
Yesterday gava said up to 1.2 million people might have lost their jobs due to covid… things are thick