Where do you see Puna in five years?

[EightFingers]

Hard question to answer, but I think it would be interesting to see if anyone is willing prognosticate five years into the future. Throw in any response: population growth, crime, town growth, industry, anything.
Hopefully no, "Grapes of Wrath II - Hawaii Edition"!

[macuu222]

This one is easy. I see Puna 5 years from now exactly the same. No change.

[John S. Rabi]

They expect 50,000 people to move to Puna during the next 10 years.

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[Hotzcatz]

True, but he is asking for the next five years and also, how many people will be leaving Puna in the same amount of time? Net gain or loss? Over five years, there may be a net loss. Over ten years, probably a net gain.

This is the tail end of the third quarter of 2008. The economy is in the midst of a nose dive. The Great Crash of '29 took about eighteen months to finally hit bottom and we are maybe halfway into a similar situation. Probably around this time in '09 we will be near the bottom of the financial markets? Or perhaps it might take a bit longer since this will go pretty deep. When the financial markets are stunned and gutted they are not loaning money to folks to buy houses or other durable goods or go on vacation. Until we get GAINFUL employment for our people, there won't be much recovery around here. If we are lucky and this upcoming recession is mild, we may start to see some reviving around 2011? By 2014 things should be going back up again, property values should be rising again and construction will start going up as well. Unless this next cycle comes up with a new pattern but generally they are a continuation of the patterns before. Very much like ripples on a pond.

Unless of course, we subscribe to the ancient Mayan calendar, then the world would have ended the year before.

[Guest]

anywhere I look in 360 degrees, I hope.

[bodysurf]

puna will lighten up.....already know people moving back mainland....

[Guest]

I can tell you now that the H-130 will "supposedly" look a bit different.

I can tell you now... that the mass increase of people that has been calculated to move here... may have all of a sudden need to be re-assessed with the recent economic developments in the world.

I see a lot of people that can't handle the real world here in Puna leaving, yet being replaced by a whole nother generation of people that are willing to give it a shot.

I see PUNA finally getting a voice in things... as I know for a fact from talking to a few politicians that people are listening to a few people here in PUNA.

I see a lot of resentment from people that try to move here, but then get frustrated by the slowness of things.

I see a lot of things.

I see many people slowly, slowly creeping up on there 5 posts a day on punaweb and I also see a lot of new people signing up to punaweb that may be jabbermouths just like me.

As Puna Grows... Will people grow up with it, or continue to resist what may inevitability happen?

Tough question if you ask me [8]

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[amf217]

John 50000!! I would hope not. The next few years will be slow anywhere you are.

[missydog1]

when I read the subject header --
Where do you see Puna in five years?

my first thought was head south out of Hilo and veer east, just like now (future always subject to Pele's unannounced alterations).

Sorry, I am so literal sometimes. [:p]

[rbakker]

I see it looking more and more like the mainland. Some people want that, some people don't. But with the onslaught of baby boomers coming here, it's inevitable. IMHO!