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Athi River, Kenya
RECENTLY married with a one-year-old child, Joan Moraa Mbogo dreams of escaping Kenya's noisy, dirty, crime-ridden capital and buying a home close to her mother's newly-built apartment overlooking the Lukenya Hills.
Machakos County, which starts 20 kilometres south-east of Nairobi, is popular with young Kenyans unable to afford decent homes in the city, where most developers are only building houses for the richest 10 per cent of residents. "I'll get a house here and we'll become neighbours," said 28-year-old Ms Mbogo.
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