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I spent eight years in Honolulu, 70s and 90s, courtesy of the Air Force, and I loved it. The weather on the leeward side is as close to perfect as anywhere on Earth. I'm a black man, and I found the racial dynamics about as good as could be expected as well. My daughter went to elementary school there in the early 90s, loved it, and coming to the Mainland proved a racial shock that she's still not fully recovered from.
If you have the money to shield you from the financial liabilities, there's nowhere better to be IMO. But it takes a lot of money.
Maybe I'm totally wrong, and I guess it depends where you live in Hawaii, but all that nearly perfect weather all year long. Sun, warm, ocean, nature. Is it nearly a 'perfect'/ideal life living there?
I thought so too, until I watched a few Homestead Rescue shows there. Floods, fires, and slugs that spread parasites.
Maybe compared to Leeward locations, but compared to just about everywhere else in America, Hawaii's climate probably has the least variation, at least in terms of temperature, maybe not precipitation. Even the the all time high and low temperatures for Hawaii as a state are much closer than most other states. Whether you're talking about the state as a whole, or a particular location (eg. Honolulu), I still say Hawaii has the least temperature variation of any state.
Agreed. My location varies between an extreme low of around 55F to a high of 87F.
Neither too hot or cold to require AC or heating. IMO, that's a big plus. For others, maybe not so much.
Flash floods, but not really much in the way of river floods because there are so few in the state.
Fires are uncommon, and when they occur it's brush fires rather than forest fires.
Rat lung disease tends to be overhyped. Actual cases are rare, with 5 in the last two years.
No snakes, no bears or other predators, but you did leave out hurricanes, earthquakes and lava flows!
Hurricanes are more rare in Hawaii than the southeast of the Mainland (has to do with Hawaii being at a lower latitude). Lava flows are only on the Big Island, as are most earthquakes, and the likelihood of the ground trying to hurt you is still higher in California.
Maybe I'm totally wrong, and I guess it depends where you live in Hawaii, but all that nearly perfect weather all year long. Sun, warm, ocean, nature. Is it nearly a 'perfect'/ideal life living there?
You sound like many people who move to Montana en masse. They then find out people there still have jobs and their problems tend to follow them. Quite a few end up homeless in the bigger cities since they thought it would be paradise and didn't think things true. Admittedly I've never lived in Hawaii but I do know it's very expensive and people there still have to work. They aren't on the beach all the live long day
You sound like many people who move to Montana en masse. They then find out people there still have jobs and their problems tend to follow them. Quite a few end up homeless in the bigger cities since they thought it would be paradise and didn't think things true. Admittedly I've never lived in Hawaii but I do know it's very expensive and people there still have to work. They aren't on the beach all the live long day
Not all day, but a lot of working people manage to get to the beach quite often. Some make it a regular part of their day.
I commuted to work by bicycle every day of the year. About two or three times a week my wife would meet me after work at the beach with a picnic dinner. We'd sit in beach chairs and eat while my daughter played in the surf.
Hawaii is the perfect place for a relaxing vacation. Sitting in a chair at the beach while someone brings you drinks as you contemplate which restaurant to go for dinner is heaven. I loved it. But. Ya gotta spend. Like, a lot.
We lived in Nassau, Bahamas for three years in the early 80s and eventually that small-island feel can be claustrophobic. Add that to astronomical prices, shortages and bugs (bugs, bugs), and we were happy to return to CT.
That said, Hawaii has a different "vibe" (an overused term) and I'd go back to visit in a heartbeat. After robbing a bank.
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