Allison Voss took off from her perceived glamorous life in San Francisco, working in investment banking, having lots of friends and a successful boyfriend, and so to say, "had it all", to move to Nairobi, Kenya to create a more meaningful life. In Kenya, she fell in love with a Co...
My cooking education began long ago, far away and high in the sky of the beautiful highlands of Kenya, East Africa, where I lived in the early years of my marriage — anew bride abroadbut not (yet)an expat foodie. One day, on a trip to the capital of Nairobi, I found dried green ...
The Expatland Global Network has been developed to make life easier for expats on the move by setting up networks of service providers in key international cities. The E-Teams provide all the services an expat needs to move to and set up a life in Nairobi, this includes accountancy, law, ...
but I also love getting out of the city for camping, safari, game drives and enjoying the spectacular sights and wildlife of Kenya. The quality of life in Nairobi is pretty amazing. For expats who need the creature comforts of home, you can buy almost anything you want or...
And it was the little American things thrown into this new Kenyan life that made the transition much easier. Was it easy making friends and meeting people; do you mainly socialise with other expats? We moved to Nairobi thinking that it would be incredibly easy to meet and befriend Kenyans,...
, located on the banks of Lake Victoria. Compared to the quality of life in India, I wouldn’t say it is on par, but at the same time, someone coming to work in Africa should also come with a certain amount of flexibility and adaptability to get in tune with the way of life here...
2020, the year that changed everything (…yet changed nothing?) ushered in COVID-19, lockdowns, travel bans, and endless Zoom calls. Above all else, the inability to travel left many EAWs feeling that life may no longer be worth living. ...
life.Rome, Milan, Lagos, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lima, New York City, and Yangon rounded off the bottom ten of least liked cities.In both 81st-placed Rome and Milan, in 80th place, expats rated the biggest weakness to be in the urban work life category,...
Nairobi ranks 12th, followed byCape Town(41st), Cairo (52nd), andJohannesburg(55th). All of them rank among the bottom 10 in the Quality of Urban Living and Urban Work Life Indices - except for Nairobi, which lands in 34th place in the latter index. ...
While living abroad, some expats wish to get involved in the local community life. What organizations expats can turn to if they want to volunteer in Kenya? How to join a charitable institution, what are the steps? Which causes have the greatest need for volunteers in Kenya? Thank you...