01-05-2014, 01:18 PM
People either live and work on the Hilo side, or live and work on the Kona side. The only people who drive back and forth for work are people who have deep roots on one side (such as family land and child care) and a good job on the other. Puna is about as far from Kona as you can get and would make for a horribly long commute.
I highly recommend that you spend time using google earth, especially the drive times feature before you think too hard about exactly where you will buy or work. Why are you assuming you will work in Kona? There isn't that much work there unless you are in the hospitality industry, which doesn't pay very well for a job that is 2-3 hours from home. We rented for several years before buying, and I am so glad we did. The area we thought we would want to live before moving here turned out to be the worst place we lived while renting. It would have been a real issue if we had already had land there from before we moved here.
Carol
I highly recommend that you spend time using google earth, especially the drive times feature before you think too hard about exactly where you will buy or work. Why are you assuming you will work in Kona? There isn't that much work there unless you are in the hospitality industry, which doesn't pay very well for a job that is 2-3 hours from home. We rented for several years before buying, and I am so glad we did. The area we thought we would want to live before moving here turned out to be the worst place we lived while renting. It would have been a real issue if we had already had land there from before we moved here.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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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