01-28-2012, 05:18 PM
I am glad that some have found a place to live in peace, for us, it has been here (but we did not leave a place that we were not at peace with, just moved here for a difference....mainly WEATHER..& truly do love the weather here...)
I would never move anywhere expecting it to be paradise, & would never advise anyone to buy a house starry eyed & using up a life savings without getting to know the area, at least some what.... We did move here, having never before even visited, but it was so that I could study here (where else but here can you study the geology, endemism & marine science that you can here?) Our plan was not to buy a house here, but we did, because we liked the area, we liked the people we met, we liked the cultural diversity, we enjoy the theater/concert venues available & we liked (OK- LOVED) the weather...and found a place with good bones, that had had a horrible remodel (the remodel from hell....) & and old very settled neighborhood in crossroads of the east side, in a small kine town.
But we were used to small time agricultural areas (spent most of our lives where radio & TV stations had the morning farm reports...), the mainland home we sold, I had lived in for over 20yrs & we were still "the new neighbors"....we were not from around there, having been born 2 counties away, mind you that the county in-between was one of the largest in the nation....& one of the most culturally diverse (Cook Co....home of Chicago)... but I had always lived in the agricultural collar area...
I have yet to understand why some move here expecting to live in the 'aloha/paradise' dream vacationland (whether they had one here or not) I would not have expected paradise & aloha everywhere here, no more than I would expect Orlando or Anaheim to be the Magic Kingdom with "imagination as the destination"! REAL world exists here, but we have found closer friends & much more tolerance here than many other places we have visited...and lived.
And I do not think that here is the perfect place, but neither is there....it is what you make it, and I wish for all to find that place where you are at peace.
I would never move anywhere expecting it to be paradise, & would never advise anyone to buy a house starry eyed & using up a life savings without getting to know the area, at least some what.... We did move here, having never before even visited, but it was so that I could study here (where else but here can you study the geology, endemism & marine science that you can here?) Our plan was not to buy a house here, but we did, because we liked the area, we liked the people we met, we liked the cultural diversity, we enjoy the theater/concert venues available & we liked (OK- LOVED) the weather...and found a place with good bones, that had had a horrible remodel (the remodel from hell....) & and old very settled neighborhood in crossroads of the east side, in a small kine town.
But we were used to small time agricultural areas (spent most of our lives where radio & TV stations had the morning farm reports...), the mainland home we sold, I had lived in for over 20yrs & we were still "the new neighbors"....we were not from around there, having been born 2 counties away, mind you that the county in-between was one of the largest in the nation....& one of the most culturally diverse (Cook Co....home of Chicago)... but I had always lived in the agricultural collar area...
I have yet to understand why some move here expecting to live in the 'aloha/paradise' dream vacationland (whether they had one here or not) I would not have expected paradise & aloha everywhere here, no more than I would expect Orlando or Anaheim to be the Magic Kingdom with "imagination as the destination"! REAL world exists here, but we have found closer friends & much more tolerance here than many other places we have visited...and lived.
And I do not think that here is the perfect place, but neither is there....it is what you make it, and I wish for all to find that place where you are at peace.