What subdivision has best weather

[Bonnie Lee]

I live on 20th off Paradise which is also a banana belt. Driving down the hill rain seems to stop around 23rd and looks like it's raining around 18th. 20th stays much drier than the highway.

Bonnie Lee

[SoCal_to_Hawaii]

Thanks to all for the input. I think we will look somewhere between 5th and the coast.

[AKpilot]

Wow, cool map! Hope everyone's doing well. It's a cool damp summer (ha ha ha) here in Alaska. Booo.

AKpilot

We're all here, because we're not all there!

[terracore]

Yeah all my Alaskan friends tell me I got out just in time.

[jlgerk]

"What subdivision has best weather"
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The one your in

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[MovingtoPahoa]

A Sincere Mahalo to thread contributors; more valuable & pertinent info here than I've found in the past month sitting at my keyboard. Without, hopefully, being a Thread Invader, I'd like to ask a few related questions.
As background, my wife and I have been visiting HPP etc for nearly 10 years; always staying in amazingly reasonable ocean front houses & moving on primarily due to property sales; rather than discontent.
My wife is retiring within the next 1-12 months and we thing it advisable to visit when the weather is at its "worst" (as opposed to wonderful February). Based upon comments here, would September or October be advisable?
One more Q & I'll clam-up. We'd love to own a house located ocean front, but such is not within our means. We've recently seen a couple of listings, in what we've found to be super friendly neighborhoods, that appear quite attractive. Acknowledging a massive amount of subjectivity, are either of these two worthy of "get on a plane now before you miss the opportunity of a lifetime"?
http://www.hilobrokers.com/cgi-bin/hb?!4...dbv8K9dtT8 or http://tinyurl.com/cbhmfmu
http://www.hilobrokers.com/cgi-bin/hb?!0...unen140br0 or http://tinyurl.com/czlmv3m
Many more questions on the way (especially retiree health care), but promise I'll start my own thread from now on!

[Wao nahele kane]

I wouldn't call any of the listings an opportunity of a lifetime.
The listing on Papio is a problem because Papio serves as a main road to Old government Beach Road which has the Waa Waa subdivision and serves as a connective between Kapoho and Hawaiian Shores. If that wasn't bad enough, the home owners on Papio put in speed bumps which are a double edge sword with regard to peace and safety. If memory serves me, that house has a speed bump right in front of it, thus the noise of slowing, bumping and accelerating will be a real pain to listen to. Interestingly a few houses went up for sale shortly after the speed bumps were installed and very likely it was some of the people eho had the bumps installed, realizing they made a huge mistake, the one you're asking about being one of them. As a former developer, I can tell you that speed bumps next to houses are a rookie mistake and to be avoided at all cost. Considering the culprit who had them installed, it's not surprising such a stupid thing would be done, reacting without true research. Bottom line, the shores house will NOT be peaceful and buying on any main connective is most often a poor choice for a home unless you're a truck driver, holding out for commercial zoning and or deaf. I couldn't tell you anything about the other place.
Good luck.

E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.

[MovingtoPahoa]

Appreciate the response & info Wao nahele kane; will definitely take your observations into consideration. I tried to get street view to work, but no luck; however, I did find this very nice (and personally appealing)Papio Park video on YouTube . The house is in the background at the beginning (++). We've twice rented a fantastic place just a block away on Welea & really like the neighborhood. Without professing expertise, I'd guess an equivalent quality house, with similar ocean proximity would be quite a bit more expensive most other places in Hawaii.

[MovingtoPahoa]

Oops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaO99BjNvIk

[Hotzcatz]

Don't buy a house when you haven't lived in the area for at least a few months first. There are micro-climates, there are neighors, there are the neighbor's roosters, there are coqui frogs, there are traffic patterns, there are just way too many variables to be able to buy a place and get a nice one from a distance. I'm not saying you won't, you might, but I'm saying if you do find a nice house it will be luck and not first hand knowledge if you do. You also may buy the house you found online and live in it for six months just to discover that you really would have preferred being two miles over. You'll get a much better house if you are living in the area before you buy it and considering the cost and hassle of moving, it's worth the expense and time of renting for six months first. What house you choose to buy will make a huge impact on your life.

If you find the perfect lot and want to build a house, it might be nice to work with a local designer who will understand things such as that the wide eaves are for keeping the sun off the house, not the rain. They will know about tradewinds, post and pier, available materials, etc. Plopping a kit house down isn't always the easiest answer to live with afterwards.

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