12-06-2013, 08:06 AM
My brother lives in south Florida and his neighborhood is that kind of mix, he said the big real estate crash really brought his neighborhood down. When he moved into his house 30 years ago it was a brand new middle class to upper middle class neighborhood in North Naples, with some expensive places down by the ocean. Now it is about 1/3 empty foreclosed on houses, 1/3 cheap rentals and 1/3 homeowners hoping things pick back up.
Here in Puna lately there have been some home invasions, including the recent one where the victim fended off her attacker with a can of pork and beans, and burglaries are not uncommon, but most of the violent crime recently seems to involve people who knew each other. During the building boom a few years ago people who were building were camping out at their building site to keep from having all the expensive stuff like appliances, windows, cabinets, and pumps stolen overnight. People who had truckloads of new furniture delivered to their new island home before they got here were arriving to find everything stolen too, but I haven't heard of as much of that lately since the wave of immigrants from the mainland has slowed down. A lot of empty houses have been stripped, but some of that has been done by the people being foreclosed on.
When you are on island you can go to the Pahoa police station and they can tell you what neighborhoods are the "hot spots" for crime right now. An older female friend of ours did that before she bought her house, and she said they were really helpful when she went in there in person, but they weren't helpful on the phone. At that time, about 10 years ago, Nanawale had better crime stats than Hawaiian Beaches, but that may have changed and both subdivisions have good and bad areas within them.
Carol
Here in Puna lately there have been some home invasions, including the recent one where the victim fended off her attacker with a can of pork and beans, and burglaries are not uncommon, but most of the violent crime recently seems to involve people who knew each other. During the building boom a few years ago people who were building were camping out at their building site to keep from having all the expensive stuff like appliances, windows, cabinets, and pumps stolen overnight. People who had truckloads of new furniture delivered to their new island home before they got here were arriving to find everything stolen too, but I haven't heard of as much of that lately since the wave of immigrants from the mainland has slowed down. A lot of empty houses have been stripped, but some of that has been done by the people being foreclosed on.
When you are on island you can go to the Pahoa police station and they can tell you what neighborhoods are the "hot spots" for crime right now. An older female friend of ours did that before she bought her house, and she said they were really helpful when she went in there in person, but they weren't helpful on the phone. At that time, about 10 years ago, Nanawale had better crime stats than Hawaiian Beaches, but that may have changed and both subdivisions have good and bad areas within them.
Carol
Carol
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb