07-31-2013, 10:20 AM
Ok here we go, me and the wife have been coming to the islands for years and have been making this plan for that long to !! we are two adults with kids all grown(not coming) and we are wanting to move to Kona side.
1st) we are bring enough to live job free for a few years if need be and we bring "skills" too (her-med me- own a building company)
2) We are paying off our 2013 car so no car payments and shipping it over (so no lender problems)
3) we are keeping our main land home and renting it to our grown son (army) to have a exit plan (we are shipping nothing but clothes and papers, buying all new as needed there) We will sale mainland home after as things work out, plus wife is on re-hire list at hospital if need be to return.
4) We own a home on the big island now on the puna side ( complete home, all permitted and on paved road ) all rented up, we bought it when the market was at the bottom and will keep till it turns just a little more and as things work out on Kona side (us renting 1st) we will sell it and use seed money for something on Kona side
5) no pets to bring(so don't have that problem to deal with)
6) Both of our Parents have passed so no deep family needs here
7) We now live in a town that is not our home town (so no home town leaving blues) and is at least two hours any way around us to any other town ( so being cut off is not that new to us)
8) Grow up and most of our adult life's in so cal so know about high cost of living
9) Every time we have come to the islands we have stayed at places with kitchens (no hotels) and shopped local to get as much of a feeling for cost as possible.
10) both me and the wife really feel very much home when getting off the plane there all the times we have been ( I know so many ppl say that) but we have inter acted with a lot of locals and have nothing but great times, we show great respect for the ppl of the islands and have gotten back the same.
so with all that and I am sure there are other things I am not putting up here and some things that not belong here so go head ppl let me here your best advise and thoughts (good and bad )
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1st) we are bring enough to live job free for a few years if need be and we bring "skills" too (her-med me- own a building company)
2) We are paying off our 2013 car so no car payments and shipping it over (so no lender problems)
3) we are keeping our main land home and renting it to our grown son (army) to have a exit plan (we are shipping nothing but clothes and papers, buying all new as needed there) We will sale mainland home after as things work out, plus wife is on re-hire list at hospital if need be to return.
4) We own a home on the big island now on the puna side ( complete home, all permitted and on paved road ) all rented up, we bought it when the market was at the bottom and will keep till it turns just a little more and as things work out on Kona side (us renting 1st) we will sell it and use seed money for something on Kona side
5) no pets to bring(so don't have that problem to deal with)
6) Both of our Parents have passed so no deep family needs here
7) We now live in a town that is not our home town (so no home town leaving blues) and is at least two hours any way around us to any other town ( so being cut off is not that new to us)
8) Grow up and most of our adult life's in so cal so know about high cost of living
9) Every time we have come to the islands we have stayed at places with kitchens (no hotels) and shopped local to get as much of a feeling for cost as possible.
10) both me and the wife really feel very much home when getting off the plane there all the times we have been ( I know so many ppl say that) but we have inter acted with a lot of locals and have nothing but great times, we show great respect for the ppl of the islands and have gotten back the same.
so with all that and I am sure there are other things I am not putting up here and some things that not belong here so go head ppl let me here your best advise and thoughts (good and bad )
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/big-islan...z2afjI7LNp