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So, the wife and I are, at long last, ready to retire and move to our favorite place on earth: Puna...and, it's on fire. So, after a few weeks of researching our options and becoming amateur vulcanologists, we consider our options:
1) We have found the perfect house at a great price...in Hawaiian Shores. If we buy, are we stupid or merely insane?
2) Wait and see. Maybe Pele will show us what she is up to. Maybe housing prices will plummet. Maybe everyone will leave and we'll be lonely.
3) Find another Hawaiian island and a bigger pile of money.
4) Retire to Australia, our second-favorite place on earth, as well as one of the more geologically stable.
Any advice for this ignorant haole is greatly appreciated.
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Staright from the heart of Puna WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!! or just rent ( rent is cheap now in HELL :-) )
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Yes... don't buy... unless it's GIVEAWAY prices like a 200K house for 80K or something like that.
I think if you have a lot of money and you were OK with losing that Money if you gambled wrong. But if that money was you life savings ... forget it ... Rent. Tho, you roll your dice. Does the lava stop and start flowing on the south side? Or will it continue to threaten to cross 130 anywhere from pahoa - HPP? Kinda stressful living if you ask me. Doesn't really matter where it crosses 130 still be screwed ... don't think that RR/Beaches road is going to be a real alternative to 130. Won't happen. It's a evacuation route at best.
Good Luck! Welcome to Pahoa!
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Puna is a big district, perhaps consider something a little more out of the current flows field of view? As Darnok suggest... renting for a while is a wise thing to do, especially now.
If you like the warmer temps down low... northern side of HPP maybe or look south of rift from Kapoho to keeping North of Kalapana but you may end up all tucked away in here with the rest of us.
Best wishes.
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Wait.. if you play it right.. and the flow continues at its agonizingly slow pace.. you'll get hip to where the real potential areas of inundation are verses the ones people are going to flee in fear anyways and be able to pick properties up in those areas for a song methinks. Meanwhile rent and enjoy it here with the rest of us hellions.
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You might want to consider that there is no homeowners insurance available for all of Puna south of Ainaloa due to a moratorium….you wouldn't be able to get insurance for a house you buy now in Hawaiian Beaches.
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I agree, unless you have cash to buy a house, you can't buy in lower Puna !!
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Consider the island of Molokai, beautiful island to live on, very rural in nature.
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Australia is more geologically stable, But almost every living creature is trying to kill you.
