06-23-2013, 01:43 PM
Well, that really depends on how much cash you got to work with. You can buy a lot for 5-7K Clear it for another 10K with septic tank. Build a small house for another 15-20K ... All and all you could come here have your own house for around 40K permitted (tho you need some handyman skills) or know someone. 
Theoretically, if you bought like in Hawaiian Beaches/Parks. You could ditch the car and take the bus. Plus have Road Runner and private water. Have you house paid for (no monthly) payments... Just woofing on your own lot to grow some papaya/banana. You could possibly live here for 150-250 a month if you ate what was on sale like at safeway, kta, foodland and the kicker here is farmers market you can get tomatoes/eggplants/pineapples/banana/papaya/etc...etc.. for CHEAP!
Power is expensive yes, but if you use LED bulbs 10 bucks for 60watts at HD, get yourself a 1KW a day refrigerator, cook with propane and a propane hot water heater for 100 bucks on amazon. You can keep your electricity down to 30-40 bucks a month. Plus propane tanks would be about 10 bucks every 5-6 months depending on your usage of showers and heating up water.
So, lets see...
Monthly cost:
140 food
50 electric/propane
35 Water
35 Internet
Of course you'll have to pay taxes and if you build small you can get by with 4-500 depending how big of a house you built.
Of course you throw a toyota echo with 44mpg into the mix. Now you have a good running car but with registration about 130 bucks a year, plus safety and maintenance... Plus 4.5 gal gas average. If you only drive it hilo a few times a week, and to the hot ponds or kopoho etc...etc.. maybe even to kona you probably will need to ad 150 bucks to your bill monthly but if you just drove 20 miles every other day you could squeeze that down to maybe 80 bucks a month.
The bus is only a buck.
Theoretically, if you bought like in Hawaiian Beaches/Parks. You could ditch the car and take the bus. Plus have Road Runner and private water. Have you house paid for (no monthly) payments... Just woofing on your own lot to grow some papaya/banana. You could possibly live here for 150-250 a month if you ate what was on sale like at safeway, kta, foodland and the kicker here is farmers market you can get tomatoes/eggplants/pineapples/banana/papaya/etc...etc.. for CHEAP!
Power is expensive yes, but if you use LED bulbs 10 bucks for 60watts at HD, get yourself a 1KW a day refrigerator, cook with propane and a propane hot water heater for 100 bucks on amazon. You can keep your electricity down to 30-40 bucks a month. Plus propane tanks would be about 10 bucks every 5-6 months depending on your usage of showers and heating up water.
So, lets see...
Monthly cost:
140 food
50 electric/propane
35 Water
35 Internet
Of course you'll have to pay taxes and if you build small you can get by with 4-500 depending how big of a house you built.
Of course you throw a toyota echo with 44mpg into the mix. Now you have a good running car but with registration about 130 bucks a year, plus safety and maintenance... Plus 4.5 gal gas average. If you only drive it hilo a few times a week, and to the hot ponds or kopoho etc...etc.. maybe even to kona you probably will need to ad 150 bucks to your bill monthly but if you just drove 20 miles every other day you could squeeze that down to maybe 80 bucks a month.
The bus is only a buck.