02-03-2009, 04:22 AM
Hi, I am new to "blogging" and forums but trying to research the realities of living in the different neighborhoods in Puna. We have come to love Puna district. The Island people remind us, very much, of the small isolated far northern community we live in Canada. Genereous, strong, proud, big hearted, stubborn and opinionated. We have a lot in Nanawale estates and we stay for a month every summer. Nanawale Estates has been great to us. Super neighbors, friendly and helpful community center. Now, as neither of us has any experience building, we are thinking we should buy a smaller retirement home. One has come up on Limu St. in Hawaiian Beaches that we are looking at but I have heard threads of conversation on line that has referred to Hawaiian Beaches as a neighborhood filled with the people who are not the average community minded people we are used to seeing around Puna ( " violent biker gang", "drug addicts and dealers", "prostitution"). How much of this is really true and how much is over blown from isolated incidents? Hope a few of you living in Hawaiian Beaches can help give us a balanced perspective of what it would truly be like to live in that neighborhood. Thank you so much for sharing your eyes, ears and experience with us. D.
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