What Are The Safest Places To Live In Hawaii?

[hotzcatz]

We had a burglar in our neighborhood back in '02 or '03. He was going into people's houses and taking things, got the whole neighborhood upset. When they caught him, a lot of the folks went to the trial and explained to the judge how scared they'd been. That burglar got one hundred and sixty eight consecutive years with no hope of parole. (Apparently, he'd done this before and drugs were involved.) We haven't had a burglar in our neighborhood since. However, we are also a small town on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island so strangers are very visible here and that might keep burglars away, too.

[MiggyRivera]

I am a young girl that is finishing school in my hometown,Chicago but i am very interested in Hawaii.I am looking for someplace with friendly people.A place where I can maybe grow a family one day.Any ideas?

[Mahrie]

I live in a NO crime area, but... it's a fire hazard, we have raging fires every year in or near our area, as with most forested areas in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada. I know of nowhere on Earth (and I've seen most of the planet) that doesn't have inherent dangers.

We live in a remote area at 5,000 ft in BC's spectacular Coastal Mountains. It's extraordinarily beautiful, peaceful, quiet, pristine, and a true wilderness area. It's a three-hour drive to the closest one-horse town on a road that doesn't qualify as a 'real' road. Several people 'Fall off the mountain,' as they say, every year - to their deaths, of course.

People here don't lock their doors, I know I don't, and everyone owns at least one shotgun, and usually several. Many people own dogs. While my general outlook and personal philosophy is pacifistic, I believe that there is truth in the saying, 'An armed society is a polite society,' but at the same time I thank God that it won't always be this way.

Most of Canada's Northland, contrary to what most Americans think, I've noticed, is ruled by a stringent code of ethics, and violating another's space (think 'home' or 'property,' or even 'placer claim') will get you shot - period. Troublemakers in Northern Canada usually... ahem... disappear. There are tens of thousands of acres of forest in which to bury a stranger, not pleasant, but true. It's still very much a frontier mentality up here, but then everybody knows that so we have few troubles, and none in the past ten years that I can recall. The only incident that I'm aware of involved city kids siphoning gas from local trucks. It didn't last long.

The remote parts of the Hawaiian Islands are reasonably safe too, according the the police departments I talked to while researching my latest novels (a seven-novel series due to be released in three weeks). Apparently, drug addiction and petty theft keep them the busiest, but the incidence of violent crime is low in all rural areas. Again, the denser the population, the higher the incidence of crime, but it's still little-league crime if compared to what people here call the mainland, and Hawai'i's pristine beauty has the added bonus of warmth and sunshine.

I'm proactive and believe in attaining to proficiency in the Martial Arts, which would definitely discourage most rapists, muggers, and personal attackers - wherever one lives.

Hope this helps.

Love, Mahrie.