Bedsitters and single rooms are how many people in Nairobi start out.
Everyone who has lived in these houses can tell you one thing, they are cheap and at least you do not have to share washrooms with neighbours with questionable hygiene standards.
However, living in a bedsitter comes with some struggles of its own. Check out some below:
Cooking turns your house into a sauna
Your house becomes unbearably hot once you start cooking and many inhabitants are forced to open the windows. If you cook strong-smelling foods like chapatis, your whole house will smell like chapos for eternity.
No personal space
Unlike a one-bedroomed house where you can retreat into solitude, bedsitters do not offer that as you will have visitors sitting on your bed and getting into your personal space.
Flooding
If you leave you tap open, your whole house and all you hold near and dear will be swept up in the sea of tapwater.
Limited Space
There is a long-running joke about how the worst thing about falling in a bedsitter is that you can fall from the bedroom into your kitchen.