10 best neighbourhoods for a woman to live in Nairobi

Houses in Runda

• While men don’t give a hoot where they live in the city, women do
• Some are moving to servants’ quarters in upmarket neighbourhoods to get well-of men

Trust me, nobody cares where you live in Nairobi. But women do. Why else would a woman move out of a spacious two-bedroom apartment in Embakasi to a tiny servant’s quarter in Valley Arcade, where she can’t even keep a pet?

While a man might agonise over reasons for moving houses, a woman could be chasing a well-heeled man in such a hood.