03-31-2016, 07:36 AM
Almost everyone I know who has moved to Hawaii has had a rough patch somewhere between the end of the initial "honeymoon" period of discovery and the "just another sh*tty day in paradise" go to work everyday and live your life period. During that rough patch our household endured health issues with no Dr. willing to take new patients, bad landlords, worse neighbors, multiple family illnesses deaths on the mainland, getting ripped off by someone we trusted, and other misc. difficulties small and large. Some people get so spooked by this stuff they pack up and return to wherever they came from, others just tough it out and send down roots. I've heard people refer to it as being "tested" by Hawaii, I don't know about that, but I do know I am glad we toughed it out and stayed, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.