10-01-2008, 12:42 PM
I could not imagine moving to Hawaii, Big Island or any other island if my goal was to work at some career.
The cost of living in conjunction with lower wages pretty much whacks that idea out.
However, My wife and I are going to make Puna our home because we want to live in semi retirement and take advantage of the rain and cool climate to raise or ducks and crops on our own land, off grid. And of course hunt hogs and do some fishing. Since we have established online companies, we don't have to seek employment. Just the whole idea of having to drive to work every day is such an expense of your time and resources that you would get so caught up into trying to make a living that you would miss the whole Hawaii experience.
Personally I don't think Hawaii is for everyone. I wonder what the rate is of people that find that out and move back. There has the be stats on that somewhere.
I met a kid from Oahu that had just moved to Houston, I swear he thought he had died and gone to heaven. He was blown away by all the opportunity that he had never seen back on Oahu.
The cost of living in conjunction with lower wages pretty much whacks that idea out.
However, My wife and I are going to make Puna our home because we want to live in semi retirement and take advantage of the rain and cool climate to raise or ducks and crops on our own land, off grid. And of course hunt hogs and do some fishing. Since we have established online companies, we don't have to seek employment. Just the whole idea of having to drive to work every day is such an expense of your time and resources that you would get so caught up into trying to make a living that you would miss the whole Hawaii experience.
Personally I don't think Hawaii is for everyone. I wonder what the rate is of people that find that out and move back. There has the be stats on that somewhere.
I met a kid from Oahu that had just moved to Houston, I swear he thought he had died and gone to heaven. He was blown away by all the opportunity that he had never seen back on Oahu.