A seemingly terrific bargain at first, there are some drawbacks as you dig deeper. Is this Big Island home for you?
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A seemingly terrific bargain at first, there are some drawbacks as you dig deeper. Is this Big Island home for you?
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Great article! While we absolutely ❤️ Hawaii, we are smart enough to acknowledge that living on an island isn’t for us. So, we’ll continue to visit but we’re not calling the moving van!
Aloha
My wife & I plan to retire in Kauai this summer. I have spent about 10 years researching this move. The best advice I can give anyone is to join the Ohana Cohort created by Peter Kay. Go to ohana.livinginhawaii.com/ Zoom classes are held once a week for several weeks. The classes are brutally honest about what it’s like for a Haole from the Mainland to move to Hawaii. Topics include: cost of living/budgets, relocating, employment, understanding/appreciating the culture and environment
Paying for advice for real? Or just advertising? Just saying
You lost me at centipedes…. LOL. I imagine at this point, the seller is thinking the property alone is worth that *shrugs shoulders.
I am curious to start comparing the cost of power to San Diego now. I have wanted to relocate to the Island for years and now it seems the Island is cheaper than San Diego!!! Even our gas has been more expensive for a few months now and getting worse.
Back to the article though, they did a nice job with the layout….views from all rooms! HAHAH
Wow people must not ever look at home listings on BI… There is a number of listing just like this one and cheaper too!!! Just be prepared for the unseen daily costs that come with these off grid homes!!!
I would move to Kauai because there is no other place on earth were I feel the calm of heart, I feel when I am on the island.
It began with my first visit in 2010 and every year sense then, (except 2020 and 21 of course) and the feeling gets stronger with each visit. I’m a bit anxious for our trip this year, hoping that the changes on the island don’t cause a change to my heart.
We feel the same way about Maui. We’ve been coming every year since 1998 (except 2020). We went back in December 2021, and while things had changed a bit, it was still the island we fell in love with. We love Kauai and thr Big Island as well, but Maui has our heart
My husband and I fell in love with the Big Island. We spent many vacations in Kauai but when we came here, we lost our hearts. Now we live on the Big Island. We came here because we wanted to live more simply, closer to nature, and we downsized quite a bit too. We found a church that we love here. We love the weather. We definitely love less traffic and crowds, we are from Southern California. We plan on making the Big Island our final destination!
Born/raised on the Waianae Coast. Now for 16yrs, I live in Texas. It’s not Hawaii but Texas has been good to us. Maybe people move there because of the perfect weather, or the simplicity of life there. It could be the diversity of cultures, having friends of different cultures, you learn so much about each other, like sharing foods, lifestyles all good stuff like that. Hopefully they feel the Aloha Spirit. Hawaii my home I miss you so much with tears falling.
My ohana and I would move to HI in a heartbeat if we could make it work, as long as we were living better than just scraping by. It’s not the cheapest place to live, but it may very well be the most beautiful.
My wife and I visited for 13 days in Feb 2019 celebrating our 10 year anniversary, and cannot wait to go back.
Mahalo, BOH, for keeping us informed of a place we love very much.
Hi Peterparker.
Thanks. We’re glad to hear you are planning on returning again.
Aloha.
Fun article that gets you thinking about the possibilities.
More food for thought: the Bureau of Labor Statistics states San Diego has the country’s highest electricity rates.
bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices_selectedareas_table.htm
The question is why?
We live in San Diego and have gone to solar panels for this very reason.
Hi Tony.
Thanks. Information isn’t totally accurate. We are paying a combined rate of about $0.40/kwh. Perhaps Honolulu is less.
Aloha.
This would be a palace for any one of our millions living in the streets. Just saying that there are a lot of people living in the US who can’t even imagine there own home. Be grateful for what you have. Lucky live Kaua’i