Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

NairobiWalker said:
My honest views about Dar es Salaam that I noted in my 3 day stay.

Positive

1. From the TPA tower, you can get some amazing views of Dar of the sides adjacent to the ocean.
2. Dar has amazing street food.
3. There's positive infrastructural growth in Dar.
4. The BRT is being well implemented.
5. There's a more organized public transportation system than Nairobi. You're less likely to find Daladalas parked anyway or loading and dropping passengers at odd places.

Neutral
1. Dar still has lots of open spaces and is considerably less dense than Nairobi.
2. Most women dress in Dera or dera-like clothing.
3. Tanzanians are short. I'm 6'2". The tallest guy I met in 3 days was my height. In Nairobi, there's no way I can go out and not meet someone taller than me.
4. Tanzanians love lowrise residential buildings.

5. I don't know whether this is negative or positive but Dar metro is not bigger than Nairobi metro. From Bagamoyo, you start seeing serious built up area at about 40-45km from CBD. In Nairobi, from namanga you'll start seeing serious built up area at about 37km from CBD. From Thika, you'll see the continuous built up area at about 40km. Remember the nairobi CBD is in the middle of the city while the Dar CBD is on the edge. Remember Nairobi is also denser than dar. My assertion is, Nairobi is still the bigger metro. My random estimate, Nairobi metro beats Dar by at least 1M people.
6. The SGR terminus is nice but much smaller than the Nairobi one. About half the size of Nairobi terminus.

Negative.
1. When I saw instanbul decry Kenya's parliament road, I almost started feeling like the Dar CBD roads had greatly improved from my last time there. The truth is, other than Sokoine Drive (which is amazing btw), the rest of the roads have not changed a bit. You can't compare Dar CBD to Nairobi CBD, not even a competition. Minus those 3 blue towers, most towers are short and beat up. Ngara could give the rest of the CBD a run for it's money. Infact other than TPA PSPF, MNF and Mzizima Tower, Kariakoo has better buildings than the CBD. Hell I saw an untarmaced road in the CBD.

2. Dar is dusty, I see people here talking about red soil in Nairobi. Yeah, Nairobi has red soil which is very visible but Dar is even dustier. They're lucky their soil is sandy hence tries to hide how dusty the city is but it's super dusty

3. Mikocheni has nothing on Kilimani. Not even close. I don't even want to say more because comparing the two is laughable. Generally, high end neighborhoods in Nairobi are way ahead of those in Dar.
4. Uswazis are real. Tanzanians need to stop the narrative that there are no slums in Dar. Those things you call uswazis are slums. Wake up
5. The daladalas are more beat up than our matatus. They also overload more. You struggle to breath just being in one at rush hours.
6. Other than the main roads, access roads are crap. Nairobi beats Dar hands down in that sector
7. Dar lags behind on both budget and high end accomodation. Interesting for a coastal city.
8. Kilindini harbor is bigger than Port of Dar
9. I see people here share about flooding in Nairobi laughing and one may feel Dar is better. A little drizzle in Dar and there are ponds everywhere. I'm sure heavy rains would bring lots of flooding.
10. Some road construction in Dar is taking forever to complete. Even the locals are complaining lowkey. If that was in Kenya, we would have flooded twitter with photos complaining which would have provided some simpletons here with ammo for bashing us. Tanzanians are too meek.

Photo: Ponding in Dar after some drizzle.
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Mbona wewe unakua muongo muongo mpumbavu.? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 posta ipi uliyotembea wewe ambayo you think kuna kamtaa nairobi kanaweza shindana na posta.. halafu tushike ground tulinganishe.
 
Sama boy 255 said:
Kwani kenya haina bahari we kubwa pumbavu.? 🤣🤣🤣 yani umekosa point yakujitetea unajitetea kama lichoko.
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There you go again!… so you expected Gor Mahia fans to take a boat from Nairobi to Kisii ?… Be a human for once !…🤣🤣🤣
 
mwaiofhawaii said:
There you go again!… so you expected Gor Mahia fans to take a boat from Nairobi to Kisii ?… Be a human for once !…🤣🤣🤣
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🤣🤣🤣 kwa uzezeta wako huu ningeweza kukutia hata vibao ningekua karibu na wewe, kwani huko mombasa hakuna team za mpira.? Si kuna bahari huko na ferries zipo.? The reason tunawaambia mnategemea mji mmoja.

Again what about kisumu.? Si ipo na lake victoria.? Au hakuna team za mpira huko..

You can’t do it because you ca not afford. Acha vi excuse vya kitoto. 🤣🤣🤣.
 
Sama boy 255 said:
🤣🤣🤣 kwa uzezeta wako huu ningeweza kukutia hata vibao ningekua karibu na wewe, kwani huko mombasa hakuna team za mpira.? Si kuna bahari huko na ferries zipo.? The reason tunawaambia mnategemea mji mmoja.

Again what about kisumu.? Si ipo na lake victoria.? Au hakuna team za mpira huko..

You can’t do it because you ca not afford. Acha vi excuse vya kitoto. 🤣🤣🤣.
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What’s the distance between Zanzibar and Dar ?.. show me anything of equivalent in Kenya..
 
Wewe jitu zima zuzu. mwaiofhawaii In Tanzania people (football fans) are using ferries to travel from unguja to pemba, just to witness Mapinduzi Cup here at Gombani stadium. 👇🏾
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ukiacha upumbavu na akili kidogo, utapata kujua football TZ imekua, shabiki wanasafiri kwa aina yoyote ya usafiri kufata kuona team zao zikicheza🤣🤣🤣. Sio unakuja na vijisababu vya ooh Nairobi hakuna Bahari,
Miji zenu zingine hazina water bodies.? 🤣🤣

hampo levels zetu that is the reason. Sio mnapanda matatu mnakuja kutupigia kelele humu. 🤣🤣🤣

Mashabiki wa Tz wanasafiri kwa aina yoyote ya usafiri kufata kuona teams zao zikicheza, just like duniani huko wamavyofanya.
 
Sama boy 255 said:
Mbeya ndio kichaka chako.

Majiji za Tz zinazofanya vizuri kando ya Dar ni hizi..
Mwanza
Arusha
Dodoma
Unguja

Na zote hizi wakunyarenda wenye pesa hukuja holidays for tourism. Hii maana yake these cities have them modern life styles. Huko kwenu ni Naipori tu, (your tourism capital, bussiness capital, political capital city) kila kitu mmeeka ndani ya mji mmoja. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 miji zingine ni vijiji tu huko kwenu.
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Nakumbuka last time nilikuambia utuonyeashe Toyota showroom Kwa hizo vijiji vyenu ukaanza kutuonyesha magarage. Hizo zote umetaja hakuna Ile ina showroom ya kuuza the most popular car brand in the world. KFC is one of the most popular fast food chain in the world na outside Dar inapatikana Arusha pekee, the rest hakuna. Those are villages.
 
nairobae said:
Nakumbuka last time nilikuambia utuonyeashe Toyota showroom Kwa hizo vijiji vyenu ukaanza kutuonyesha magarage. Hizo zote umetaja hakuna Ile ina showroom ya kuuza the most popular car brand in the world. KFC is one of the most popular fast food chain in the world na outside Dar inapatikana Arusha pekee, the rest hakuna. Those are villages.
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Toyota showroom imekua vigezo za city modernity. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 dunia simama nishuke. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
Sama boy 255 said:
Wewe jitu zima zuzu. mwaiofhawaii In Tanzania people (football fans) are using ferries to travel from unguja to pemba, just to witness Mapinduzi Cup here at Gombani stadium. 👇🏾View attachment 3324643ukiacha upumbavu na akili kidogo, utapata kujua football TZ imekua, shabiki wanasafiri kwa aina yoyote ya usafiri kufata kuona team zao zikicheza🤣🤣🤣. Sio unakuja na vijisababu vya ooh Nairobi hakuna Bahari,
Miji zenu zingine hazina water bodies.? 🤣🤣

hampo levels zetu that is the reason. Sio mnapanda matatu mnakuja kutupigia kelele humu. 🤣🤣🤣

Mashabiki wa Tz wanasafiri kwa aina yoyote ya usafiri kufata kuona teams zao zikicheza, just like duniani huko wamavyofanya.
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Ingekuwa huko kwa manyang'au mawe yangerushwa hapo😂
 
NairobiWalker said:
Travel and learn kiddo
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Twende ground we bwege watu waone usitupigie kelele, unatufundisha Dar.? 🤣🤣🤣 kimsingi hadi sasa kitu pekee Nairobi inaweza sumbua Dar ni ile elevated road only.. we umepita mikocheni just ones unakuja hapa kutupea general overview.? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 jamaa fala sana hili. Umefika TPA tower unatuelza general overview ya posta nzima, tena umeenda mbali zaidi unatueleza eti Kariakoo ina majengo mazuri kuliko posta. Posta ipi uliyoenda wewe.?
 
Sama boy 255 said:
Toyota showroom imekua vigezo za city modernity. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 dunia simama nishuke. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Kama kupata international brands ni ngumu basi tofauti na Kijiji ni nini?
 
nairobae said:
Kama kupata international brands ni ngumu basi tofauti na Kijiji ni nini?
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International brands ngapi zipo Arusha my fool brother .? Arusha ina five star hotels, international conference centers, world class football stadium, skyline ya Arusha is very amazing, Arusha producing Cars, motor cycles, Arusha is world’s safari capital.
Arusha also has so many amazing suburbs..
Arusha is the capital of EA community,
Arusha hots international universities of Africa. So far so good PAPU building is in Arusha. 👇🏾
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Wewe unatupigia kelele na vijiji za kunyalender.? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 kisumu na vijiji zingine itaku offer nini kati ya hivyo nime mention hapo.?
 
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