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Originally Posted by hotzcatz
Plumeria20, you are planning on moving to Oahu and renting first, aren't you?
It's almost impossible to find the best place from the mainland over the internet. Buying somewhere locks you into where ever you buy, at least, without a lot of hassle with selling and buying another place. If you move over and rent for about six months, you'll have a much better idea of which neighborhood you really like.
For all we know, you'll visit one of the other islands and prefer them instead. Renting for six months first gives you time to look around and see what you want to do and where you want to have easy access. Oahu has scads of traffic and even the other islands are beginning to experience traffic as well. If you want to take up such as surfing in your retirement, well, then, you'd want to be near a nice surfing beach, wouldn't you?
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hotzcatz,
Right, we’d rent first. We’d need to sell our place in sCal too.
Home ownership seems to be too much of responsibility.
I miss the islands, but Honolulu is no longer the same place I grew up in.
Plumeria20
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