Some of the people relocating from the city were no longer settling in the secondary towns surrounding Nairobi. “Based on the fact that the city is the epicentre of the pandemic, there are many families who have shifted to the rural areas,” says Dr Njau Gitu, the director of Australia Education Global Advisors. Take a surveyBut the cost of living in the city is high: Mercer’s Cost of Living Survey for 2020 ranked Nairobi 95th out of 209 cities. According to the 2019 Kenya National Bureau of Statistics census data, Kenya has 7.4 million rural households and 4.7 million urban households. And the city has become congested, with rates of crime, homelessness and poor sanitation rising by the day.

Source: Standard Digital April 28, 2021 16:30 UTC