The ‘Karen Country Club’ is currently trending nationwide with many tweeps having a roaring laugh at the idea of the Country Club’s management opening up the hitherto super-exclusive facility to the general public.
According to an article published by the Business Daily, The Residences, modern cottages and apartments that sit on the edge of the expansive 225 acres of the Karen Country Club Golf Course in Nairobi, have now been opened up to the public and you and your little sister, who probably earns less than $300 a month is allowed to finally visit and soak in the air of the super wealthy.
Opened six years ago, The Residences initially offered accommodation only to accredited club members and their guests – and they don’t come cheap.
Until then, members from select elite country clubs around the world were also allowed to stay at The Club, under a reciprocity arrangement.
But recently, as a way to diversify and boost its earnings, the club opened up The Residences to the general public and Twitter went bananas.
The unexpected announcement saw hundreds of Kenyans on Twitter rush online to imagine themselves as patrons at the exclusive Country Club and the memes, as usual, did not disappoint.
Everyday Kenyans, who would otherwise find it hard to find a place at a table as vaunted as that of Karen Country Club, inundated Twitter will all manner of ‘poor me’ memes while laughing at their own inadequacies while faced with the prospects of wining and dining with the likes of the ‘Grand Mullah’ Ahmednasir Abdulahi, flashy lawyer Donald Kipkorir and the likes of ultra-refined gentlemen like Githu Muigai.
Sir Alexas, Brian Mutinda, Billy The Goat, Osoro and Kimanzi are some of the leading Twitter bigwigs who are leading the Karen Country Club meme onslaught and, sitting pretty at Number 4 countrywide, there’s a thousand ways you can laugh. Especially if your tax bracket is nothing compared to that of, say, Wakili Fred Ngatia who we assume normally enjoys a full, garnished English breakfast at the club before dashing over to the Supreme Court to drop some legal gems.
As the memes will reveal, the Karen Country Club is not the place where you drag your little broke friends to haggle over the price of cheap gin while yelling ‘shots shots’ every thirty minutes.
This is the glorified home of billionaires – and you better act like one.