I hope you realize that Hawaii is a very expensive place to live because they have to import almost everything. So you have to add shipping costs to the stuff you need to live on.There aren t many jobs and there s very little industry.The biggest job maker in Hawaii is tourism. The second biggest is pot. And right now it might be switched.Since you are moving with young kids, who will your support be? As a parent you generally need people to help you out from time to time.Are you caucasian? Because some places can be racist towards caucasians as Hawaii is predominantly asian and they resent whites.MHO
when i lived in hawaii these were the cons:milk was $8 a gallongas was almost $4 a gallona lot of racism especially in schoolsexpensive housingnow these are the pros:best place to livefunexcitinglots of jobsvariety of culturesonce in a lifetime experiencebeautifulcure depressioni wish i lived there still
Are you independently wealthy?Do you have a secure job offer there? otherwise, don t do it.This is friendly advice. I ve known lots of families try this and not make it Hawaii, suffering lots of financial hardship.
ok 1st you should think about the bad things and the good things if you ride the plane or whatever transportation then you have to see if you you have enough money to rent a house if not go in a hoteltry brain storm
Its the 3rd most expensive place in the US to live.. behind NYC and LA.PLUS everything has to be imported so products cost much more.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w058VpVl3��Jobs on the mainland are scarce, but Hawaii the jobs are more limited, and they are having cut backs too. You should have a job before making the move. With young children, you cant end up homeless. Hawaii is a dream vacation, and more would live there if it was doable. Make sure you research this very carefully, and dont just live in a fantasy. You have serious responsibilities.Hope your dreams come true ! This deals more with rent prices and other misc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLn0K5Pc5��http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecuUajvw3��
Aloha,The cost of living there is high. rental places for a 2 bedroom will cost you $1500 up and that does not include AC or a ceiling fan. If you don t have a job lined up be prepared for a rude awakening, unless you have money put away and I mean a lot of it (lotto). Everything is expensive including food and all the necessities like furniture, clothes, automobiles. As for eating out at a restaurant or getting a pizza, well forget it, the prices are so high you will only do that on special occassions. Try craigslist.org and click on Hawaii over to the right side of the page and go from there. Find a job and look for a place to live and have some friends lined up to welcome you there. Try Myspace and Facebook to make some contacts with potential Hawaiian friends. Don t drag these kids there and make them miserable because you want to chase a dream. Everyone thinks that moving there will be all kicked back and romantic, yes it can be but it can also be very hard on you and your expectations. I am from Kauai and moved to Dallas 6 years ago so I would not have to end up on welfare. I visit every 2 years and that is enough for me because I always end up broke. I had no friends or relatives here and it was hard but I made it with a job and money I had saved up. I made lots of friends since but one particular friend here told me a year ago that after meeting me and looking at my photo s she had decided to sell everything and move to Maui. This friend hasn t been outside the mainland since she was a small child and off to Hawaii she went. She has made it there 1 1/2 years but is now talking about moving back because she is lonely and exhausted with trying to make it there. It wasn t quite as cool an idea as she thought. She dragged her 2 boy s there and even though they have jobs and friends, they struggle as well because the community does not want people to move there and make it harder for the locals. Visit and go home. The tourist have made inflation hard on the locals and the Hawaiians have to suffer with the cost of living there. The island belongs to the locals and most companies there will hire a local first because they don t want to take a chance on hiring you because they know that tomorrow you may want to go home...as most do.
IF you already have a job lined up or your company is moving you AND you make a minimum of $100,000 a year you should will be alright. I make exactly $100,000 a year. I have 2 small kids with a stay-at-home wife. We own a crappy 3 bedroom townhouse with a mortgage/HOA fees/prop taxes/etc of about $3000/month. We own an SUV, so we pay a lot in gas - around $60/week. Basically, after all bills and necessities are paid we barely have anything left over. I MAKE $100,000 A YEAR AND CAN BARELY GET BY IN HAWAII. You have 3 kids and are 25. How much do you make? If you don t already have a job lined up then please, for you kid s sake, DON T MOVE HERE. Child care is ridiculous. First off, most places have waiting lists of around 6 - 12 months. For full time child care the cheapest we found was $600/month per kid. For you that would be $1200/month (assuming your 8 year old is in school). After this we decided my wife would just continue to stay home.Hawaii has a huge homeless problem. Many, many people that are homeless here HAVE JOBS! They just don t make enough to pay all the bills. Many of those people had pipe dreams of up-and-moving to beautiful Hawaii because the weather is nice, or because it seemed exciting. Sound familiar??
This is my standard answer that I give. There are good things about living in Hawaii and there are some not so good thing about living in in Hawaii.Hawaii is expensive. Ninety percent of everything is shipped in this is the main reason it cost more. Gas prices are coming down it is in the nigh three dollar range. Our unemployment rate is HIGH right now. I would not suggest moving here without a job/s. Many people have to work more then on job to survive. Hawaii is just as safe as anywhere else maybe safer. We have everything the mainland has except for a few restaurants and stores. The water that surrounds us does not make much of a difference.No Daylight Savings Time we never move out clock forward or back.We have an excellent bus system on Oahu. If you are willing to take the time then it will cut down on gas costs. You can have car but you might want to take the bus most of the time and use a car only when really needed.Hawaii is one of most culturally diverse place in America. We have several cultures here. Hawaiians being the most obvious. We also have a diverse Asian population; Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese (sp?). All these culture differ. And it is best if you learn the differences.If you love food Hawaii is one of the best places to be. Due to our many cultures we have many different kinds of food. Try them all.Since we have many different cultures in Hawaii there are many set of rules all of them slightly different. Make an effort to learn. When you make an effort to learn the the differences then you will be accepted.There is racism in Hawaii, racism is everywhere. Some of the racism is aimed at Whites. Racism at White is not all that common so you will get Whites saying that all Locals and or Hawaiian are racist. That is not true. The Locals and Hawaiians who are racist toward Whites tend to be racist against other cultures. Racism is not right. But it does exist.Not everybody who lives in Hawaii is Hawaiian. To be Hawaiian to must have Hawaiian blood. Or be of Hawaiian ancestry. If you are like me and have lived in Hawaii all their life but have no Hawaiian blood you are considered a Local.We also have a dialect of Pidgin Creole English. Or it is called Pidgin for short. This language was created during the plantation days. We had workers from all over Asia and the Pacific they all spoke different languages and the needed a way to communicate. So a new language grew and was created.There a some who hear Pidgin an the equate it with lack of intelligence. Do not do this!Then there is what can be called Rock Fever some people tend to feel trapped because they can t drive anywhere else but Hawaii. There is no way you can drive into another state.If you need to fly home to the Mainland then 1) take more time because you have to fly over an ocean first. 2) Will cost more because you have to fly