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Well, I have $3500 in savings. My girlfriend doesn't have any savings.
$3,500 savings is a recipe for homelessness.
You need to take your monthly living expense (between you and your gf) and multiply that by six at a bare minimum. Figure rent at $1,500 for a low end small studio incl utilities. Add 60% to all the other COL expenses you currently incur in Orlando. Assuming that's another $1,500/mo, you're at $3,000. That $3K is just for both of you to survive with a roof over your head. Multiply that by six and you get $18K. That would be the bare minimum savings you should have before moving. And you should have a job lined up before getting on a plane as well.
Anything less will set you up for possible homelessness. I've never heard of a day trader with zero savings. Hopefully she has some ambition and smarts in her or she'll drag you down like a ton of bricks and make your life miserable.
Well Hawaii was her idea. I don't really care where we move. I suggested Alabama but she thought it might be too cold up there for her.
At the end of the day, I do what my girlfriend tells me to.
Well, since you seem to have come on this forum to merely argue with all of the advice that we are sharing with you, and since your girlfriend is the one making these seemingly uninformed decisions for the two of you, perhaps she should be the one on the forum. Especially since her grasp on reality seems to come from video games!
Well, we've lived in Florida our whole lives, and we've seen people move here with no money or plan.
If we had to put up with that, why shouldn't we be able to do the same thing in Hawaii? Don't we at least deserve that?
Well, you'd be doing the same in Hawaii as the snowbirds do in Florida. Although the folks migrating to Florida are at least going somewhere with a probable lower cost of living than where they came from.
For what it's worth, the cost of living in Orlando is below the average US cost of living. Hawaii is one of the top three, so figure you'll need more than twice as much money to live the same way you are in Florida.
How about living somewhere else in Florida? Apparently you're in a not-so-good part of town, are there any other areas which are better? What about somewhere like Key Biscayne or somewhere on the water? Apalachicola is supposed to be nice, if you want the other side of the state. You'd be able to go look at those places easily, too, and moving there would be tons easier. Can you take your girlfriend on a mini-vacation to the other places in Florida and see if she'd like them better? You'd not have to tell her you were considering moving there, just go and visit the beach there and then ask her if she thought it would be nicer to live there than Orlando.
Well, we also put Hawaii on our list because not only do we want somewhere warm, we are tired of having to listen to Spanish spoken everywhere we go here in Orlando. I even took my girlfriend to DMV and they were speaking Spanish over the PA. Not English. We couldn't believe it. We thought we there would be less Spanish in Hawail.
^ I don't think you've ever been to Orlando? There are kick in robberies at the apts on Kirkman Road. And home invasions. You don't have to leave your home to be a victim here.
There is crime in Hawaii as well. As a matter of fact the drug (meth) problem used to be terrible and I doubt it has gotten better.
Well, we've lived in Florida our whole lives, and we've seen people move here with no money or plan.
If we had to put up with that, why shouldn't we be able to do the same thing in Hawaii? Don't we at least deserve that?
Dude. You are clueless. If you love to Florida with no money and it doesn't work out it costs a couple of tanks of gas to drive anywhere in the lower 48/mainland. In Hawaii it will cost two plane tickets. What do those cost now? $1000 per person?
Don't forget. You have $3500 and lets round it up to $4k...
Tickets:$800(2)
Rent: $3000(first/last/deposit).
You have $200 until you find a job...good luck. Utilities are t cheap.
Where is your bail out money? Furniture?
I lived in Southern California for some time in college. Would you like to guess the percentage of people who speak Spanish? I even believe one of the official languages is Spanish in cal.
I'm sure the same can be said for New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc. I was merely responding to the OP's question about whether English was spoken in Hawaii.
I didn't get into the finer points of pidgin and the many languages spoken here.
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