Not Even Molten Lava Can Cool This Hot Housing Market

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

From an article about population reductions in American cities in Popular Mechanics:

“The projections suggest that, by 2100, all states will have cities facing some type of depopulation, except the District of Columbia and Hawaii,” the authors wrote.

[terracore]

Popular Mechanics also projected we'd have flying cars to navigate our cloud cities by now.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

we'd have flying cars

If we really wanted one, PM told us how to build one for ourselves.
Wait, is that Chunkster’s car?

[ChunksterK]

Ours is Splittertarn camouflage with a Bundeswehr tank decal. The Frau wanted a Leopard 2 chassis, but eventually settled for a Toyota.

[Durian Fiend]

...  And the gold standard for remote or professional workers that didn't exist just a few years ago is everywhere now:  High speed internet.  We're also seeing multi-family generational migration.  People are looking to move here with their parents (or parents looking to move here with their adult children).  They are generally looking for something with more than one dwelling on it.  They are looking here because "Hawaii" but also they could never afford such a living scenario in their own towns, even with multiple incomes.  They don't move back after a few years to care for their parents or whatever because they brought them with.

A good analysis.  

The climate is becoming drier too, making the area more attractive for a greater number of people.

[leilanidude]

The climate is becoming drier too, making the area more attractive for a greater number of people.
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Still getting 120-140 inches of rain a year in Leilani...

[MarkP]

We get 180" per year in Eden Roc. Personally I could get by with less.

[terracore]

I've spoken to a number of old timers and universally they have described the "Hilo side" as being much wetter 30 years ago. I don't know if this is some Mandela Effect or if it was actually wetter or perceived wetter. I lived in SE Alaska for 15 years and although where I lived got less rain than here, it FELT like it was more. Maybe we got 1 inch of rain in a week but it was a drizzle that never ended. People would take off work early if the sun came out. Here we can get an inch of rain by 7am and it's sunny the rest of the day. We got a lot of cruise ship tourists and inevitably they would ask, "Does it always rain like this?" No! Sometimes it snows.

[Durian Fiend]

I've spoken to a number of old timers and universally they have described the "Hilo side" as being much wetter 30 years ago.  I don't know if this is some Mandela Effect or if it was actually wetter or perceived wetter.  I lived in SE Alaska for 15 years and although where I lived got less rain than here, it FELT like it was more.  Maybe we got 1 inch of rain in a week but it was a drizzle that never ended.  People would take off work early if the sun came out.  Here we can get an inch of rain by 7am and it's sunny the rest of the day.  We got a lot of cruise ship tourists and inevitably they would ask, "Does it always rain like this?"  No!  Sometimes it snows.

Yes, it's a matter of record.  Not only total yearly rainfall, the number of consistently wet periods as you're referring to here also has decreased, in my opinion, over the past 30 years.   


Figure 6: Observed changes (compared to the 1951–1980 average; horizontal black line) in annual precipitation for 5 long-term reporting stations in Hawai‘i from 1950 to 2020: Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i (red line); Honolulu, O‘ahu (blue line); Ho‘olehua, Molokai‘i (orange line); Kahului, Maui (yellow line); and Hilo, Island of Hawai‘i (green line). Annual precipitation varies greatly from year to year; however, overall amounts have decreased since 1950 at all 5 stations. Hilo has seen the greatest decrease of 14 inches across the period of record. Sources: CISESS and NOAA NCEI. Data: GHCN-Daily.

https://statesummaries.ncics.org/chapter/hi/

[Durian Fiend]

"Land in an active lava zone, it turns out, is relatively cheap".

I wonder why?

I would argue that land in Puna is no longer cheap.  Prices have skyrocketed in the last few years.