10-12-2006, 03:17 AM
I was thirty (18 years ago) when i moved to the Big Island from the San Fernando Valley in Cali. I came kicking and screaming having been only married 4 months when my then hubby got a job at the Hyatt on the Kohala Coast... he promised me only 3 years and we could move back to Cali and the Central Coast area. I was a city girl and Hawaii was the country!!
We lived on the Kona side in Puako, and Waimea... it took me 4 years to move to the East side and Puna - HPP actually - it was then way out in the country - party lines for phones, DSL or cable?? no way, no Orchidland gas station, ... stayed a few years and moved to Honomu... then back to Puna in 2002 - and stayed here since.
When I moved to Puna the first time (1994)... HPP was ...okay but Leilani, Nanawale, Hi Acres, and HB/HS wasnt somewhere a woman alone would drive into at night....
Now I am a country girl and Hilo seems like the city! Hi Acres, HPP, Leilani, HB/HS, Nanawale even; have some of the most desirable real estate and are safer than they were 10-15 years ago!
My, how times change!
We lived on the Kona side in Puako, and Waimea... it took me 4 years to move to the East side and Puna - HPP actually - it was then way out in the country - party lines for phones, DSL or cable?? no way, no Orchidland gas station, ... stayed a few years and moved to Honomu... then back to Puna in 2002 - and stayed here since.
When I moved to Puna the first time (1994)... HPP was ...okay but Leilani, Nanawale, Hi Acres, and HB/HS wasnt somewhere a woman alone would drive into at night....
Now I am a country girl and Hilo seems like the city! Hi Acres, HPP, Leilani, HB/HS, Nanawale even; have some of the most desirable real estate and are safer than they were 10-15 years ago!
My, how times change!