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Renagle
Joined 2009
Posts: 8

15 years ago

Cost of Living: basic utilities

15 years ago

Hello, all:

My husband has been offered a contract for Nairobi and we are looking for information to compare what the package will or won't offer and at what price.

Specifically, we are hoping to find out a rough idea of what monthly utilities can cost if renting a house. We're looking to be close to the international schools either up in the Runda/Gigiri or southwest in the Karen/Langata area. I can only guess these would be appropriate places to live from from looking at the map where the schools are located and surrounding suburbs:

1) electricity
2) water
3) land telephone line
4) gas? (for stove)
5) other that I'm missing?

As I'm writing this from India, I don't know what may be typically covered by rental fees. For example, we pay for electricity and gas, but not water as it's included in rent.

Thanks to anyone in advance for their response.

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