Living in Hawaii – Moving to Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Big Island

I got this email recently from a girl that is looking to move to Waikiki after she graduates. She asks a lot of questions, so there is a good opportunity to help a lot of people in a similar situation so I thought I’d try to knock this post out real quick before I get [...]

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I received a note from a woman that has a pretty good idea what her and her husband want when they move to the island of Maui. Her note is below, and my response is below that. * * * Hi Vern! Thanks for the great info you post on moving to HI. My husband [...]

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Ryan Ozawa is a well known blogger living on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, that I first came into contact with online about four years ago. His website, Hawaii Blog is one of the most widely read blogs about living in Hawaii that exist. I joined him on Google+ a while back. Today he posted [...]

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Here’s an email I received from a woman in Italy that is hoping to narrow the search down to just one of the Hawaiian Islands – Big Island or Oahu, for her husband, daughter, and their dog. Amazingly, she typed this all up on her iPhone! * * * Hello Vern, I really enjoy your [...]

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This is a photo of the West Maui Mountains. There always seems to be rain clouds above them, and it makes for some consistent rainbows. Maui is, to me, the best place to live in the Hawaiian Islands. Brian wrote me below, and told me just about everything I would have asked, so I’ll be [...]

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Here is an email I got pretty recently about a husband and wife looking to move to one of the islands, but kind of going back and forth about choosing either Maui or Oahu. I think this is a common problem, and one I’ve also beat myself up over for a while too. There are [...]

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I was looking at some of the population graphs Google gives for the islands. It gives a good overview of what is happening in the various counties in Hawaii for population growth. Before looking at this data, I would have thought the rate the islands are growing at, would be something like this. There doesn’t [...]

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