12-07-2013, 07:12 AM
Nice directional turn, your first impression does resemble a new transplant to these parts. Welcome neighbor and may I ask you what you see in Puna to give you this simple solution?. A living wage in these parts now is about 45,000 to 50,000, cost of food and Helco (electric) make opening up a restaurant nearly impossible unless you serve alchohol or except EBT. Oh wait I am stand corrected, might do well if you buy into the franchises like Burger king, or subway but I am not sure the cost up front for franchise names. Anyway this area has some very sad and hard economic choices right now, and unless we can bring in better paying jobs or bisnesses it's not going to get any better for the folks from here. Let me just take a guess here but your not another prescription filling psychiatrist?. But hey this is the place most will learn to be LAZY or go CRAZY and yes the pay in Pahoa is somewhere around 300,000 a year to push and pass pills. Believe it or not this was really a great place to raise a family just 20 years ago. You know KIDS, house, land, oceans, and opportunities to buy at $2,000 an acre in good neighbor hoods was hard to pass on. Any way welcome to my homeland anything that was once mine is now yours. We will take your simple solution to heart, take another look out our windows for opportunities, and then resume our positions in the current systems. (BY CHOICE RIGHT?.) P.S sorry for the assumptions and for all I know, you may have been a classmate of mine back in the 2ND grade at Pahoa Elem, If so though you couldn't be white. And by those white first remarks I read from you, you are probably from back east.