01-01-2010, 11:47 AM
No we are not discussing someone living in certain areas, but we ARE discussing cultural attitudes, tradition, overcrowding (mostly because people like us moved here in droves the last 5 years) and following safety laws.
Be safe. Do not pass on the right. Accept that the place you chose to live is impacted with too many cars to get to Hilo in a reasonable time and leave yourself enough "unreasonable extra" time to do what you need to do, get where you need to get and do so safely.
The point about living here for a year first is very good advice. If you had known of the overcrowding conditions on the roads during what has become "rush hour" and you don't like driving slowly in it, you could have made a better choice on location. There are many many things here that don't work the way they did "back home". That is part of the charm of moving out to this rural, remote island. You want freeways, go to Southern Calfornia. Here we have rinky dink roadways, old clunker cars, often driven by old clunker people that have done so for 40 years. This is their home and that is just the way it is.
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"
Be safe. Do not pass on the right. Accept that the place you chose to live is impacted with too many cars to get to Hilo in a reasonable time and leave yourself enough "unreasonable extra" time to do what you need to do, get where you need to get and do so safely.
The point about living here for a year first is very good advice. If you had known of the overcrowding conditions on the roads during what has become "rush hour" and you don't like driving slowly in it, you could have made a better choice on location. There are many many things here that don't work the way they did "back home". That is part of the charm of moving out to this rural, remote island. You want freeways, go to Southern Calfornia. Here we have rinky dink roadways, old clunker cars, often driven by old clunker people that have done so for 40 years. This is their home and that is just the way it is.
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"