05-25-2013, 03:39 AM
This forum is hardly a meaningful cross-section of the demographic in Puna. It's a lot like almost all the rest of the online "communities". Get up, go outside and almost nobody is in the online mode. But most kamaaina know Puna is the ugly stepchild of the BI, not due to the stunning beauty and aloha of the aina, but that it's at the bottom for per capita, has a medium city population with medium city demands but spread out over a vast area, with a lot of displaced people, domestic problems, gun culture, mixed with a lot of alcohol. Alcohol is the big factor. Then packed together on tiny lots in failed run down developments.
The only generalization that can be made about Hawaii is that no generalization can be made, especially with the BI. Weather is a big topic, pouring down rain, go up the road ten miles, baking sun. Wait ten minutes and it's changed. Same with all these failed developments, generally run down but there can be Mac-mansions here and there, interspersed with abandoned tear-down shacks. Some developments are more rough than others -- really rough.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
The only generalization that can be made about Hawaii is that no generalization can be made, especially with the BI. Weather is a big topic, pouring down rain, go up the road ten miles, baking sun. Wait ten minutes and it's changed. Same with all these failed developments, generally run down but there can be Mac-mansions here and there, interspersed with abandoned tear-down shacks. Some developments are more rough than others -- really rough.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*