01-28-2012, 12:05 PM
We bought our house and discovered Punaweb later.No regrets so far except may be being too excited and somehow contributing to our friend's mistake.
I read this thread and thought it may help some people
While I don't completely agree with BradW his post can be helpful.
http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2360&whichpage=9
"Puna on the Big Island is an ugly place. Hawaiian Beaches and surrounding areas the most so. PunaWeb is a dis-service to those who sell their all elsewhere and move over, starry eyed, as we did, and spend much of their life's savings and all of their dreams, to live and be happy in unparadise. It ain't there. You'll move back.
We tried, then tried some more. "Kill Haole Day" in public schools, "Born Here Not Flown Here" on t-shirts eveywhere we looked, "Go home haole" yelled at us from the Post Office to the beach. The finger. Our neighbors were pigs with everything from major family abuse against each other to big-time meth factories. And if the local police were aware of obvious illegal activity, they could not care less.
How many folks become dis-inchanted and move back to the Mainland? The answer is most. Why is that? Please save your money and find your place in the 48. Let the BI sink, without you, into the ocean where it belongs."
I read this thread and thought it may help some people
While I don't completely agree with BradW his post can be helpful.
http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2360&whichpage=9
"Puna on the Big Island is an ugly place. Hawaiian Beaches and surrounding areas the most so. PunaWeb is a dis-service to those who sell their all elsewhere and move over, starry eyed, as we did, and spend much of their life's savings and all of their dreams, to live and be happy in unparadise. It ain't there. You'll move back.
We tried, then tried some more. "Kill Haole Day" in public schools, "Born Here Not Flown Here" on t-shirts eveywhere we looked, "Go home haole" yelled at us from the Post Office to the beach. The finger. Our neighbors were pigs with everything from major family abuse against each other to big-time meth factories. And if the local police were aware of obvious illegal activity, they could not care less.
How many folks become dis-inchanted and move back to the Mainland? The answer is most. Why is that? Please save your money and find your place in the 48. Let the BI sink, without you, into the ocean where it belongs."