Comments on: How’s it going over there in Hawaii? http://www.hawaiihomesales.net/blog/hawaii-home-sales/hows-it-going-over-there-in-hawaii/104/ Hawaii real estate and home sales Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:00:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hawaiian Dee http://www.hawaiihomesales.net/blog/hawaii-home-sales/hows-it-going-over-there-in-hawaii/104/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Hawaiian Dee Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:20:05 +0000 http://www.hawaiihomesales.net/blog/hawaii-home-sales/hows-it-going-over-there-in-hawaii/104/#comment-253 YES! We are truly feeling the recession here in Hawaii. Everything is IMPORTED.....and importing costs FUEL and fuel is going up up and up gas is now at $4 or more ($4.23 where I live) jobs are less, food, gas, rent, prices all have gone up....airline prices are way up its bad here..... YES! We are truly feeling the recession here in Hawaii.

Everything is IMPORTED…..and importing costs FUEL and fuel is going up up and up

gas is now at $4 or more ($4.23 where I live)

jobs are less, food, gas, rent, prices all have gone up….airline prices are way up

its bad here…..

]]> By: inka http://www.hawaiihomesales.net/blog/hawaii-home-sales/hows-it-going-over-there-in-hawaii/104/comment-page-1/#comment-252 inka Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:14:11 +0000 http://www.hawaiihomesales.net/blog/hawaii-home-sales/hows-it-going-over-there-in-hawaii/104/#comment-252 Yes we feel it too. Gas prices are way up and so are housing and food prices. It's true that almost everything is more expensive in Hawaii than on the mainland, especially groceries. I have a small one-bedroom apartment and it costs $1,200 a month plus $150 for utilities (and the apartment was unfurnished when I moved in). Rents keep increasing but the salaries don't. Many people have 2 or 3 jobs to afford Hawaii's high prices. The average house is still very expensive here, about $600,000, but it also has declined a bit in the last months (it had been as high as $650,000 before). Yes we feel it too. Gas prices are way up and so are housing and food prices. It’s true that almost everything is more expensive in Hawaii than on the mainland, especially groceries. I have a small one-bedroom apartment and it costs $1,200 a month plus $150 for utilities (and the apartment was unfurnished when I moved in). Rents keep increasing but the salaries don’t. Many people have 2 or 3 jobs to afford Hawaii’s high prices. The average house is still very expensive here, about $600,000, but it also has declined a bit in the last months (it had been as high as $650,000 before).

]]> By: Beckee http://www.hawaiihomesales.net/blog/hawaii-home-sales/hows-it-going-over-there-in-hawaii/104/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Beckee Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:50:28 +0000 http://www.hawaiihomesales.net/blog/hawaii-home-sales/hows-it-going-over-there-in-hawaii/104/#comment-251 I live on Molokai, and the largest private employer on the island closed up shop in April. That's also when Aloha Airlines and ATA abruptly ceased operations. In shaky economic times, the risk that your airline might fold and strand you in Hawaii doesn't exactly make people want to book vacations. I've heard tell of a hotel on the Big Island where recent bookings have fallen off more than they did after 9-11 (You may remember that no planes but military planes were flying for a few days back then). And you rarely hear anything about Hawaii in the news, anyway. When you hear that Honolulu or Maui has the most expensive gas in the nation, you don't hear about Molokai ($4.599) or Lanai, where gas prices will be over $5 this week. We've been fighting the crystal meth epidemic over here for more than a decade, but you didn't hear about it in North America until it began to spread in small towns in the midwest! And how much did you hear about the various movements for Hawaiian Sovereignty before you visited? The long-brewing disputes over water rights? The truth is, for mainland media outlets to provide extensive coverage of Hawaii, they'd have to send correspondents out here, and they can't afford to send correstpondents out here. But they learned long ago that their readership is not interested. In a newsroom on the US east coast, they used to ***** a joke about how many people from each nationality would have to be killed in a tragedy to make the front page. The punchline was that -all- the Pacific Islanders would have to die to make A-1. The cost and standard of living in Hawaii have been issues for a very long time. Most of the land over here is owned by a handful of entitites, many the estates of the children of the original missionaries. Lots of folks who grow up in Hawaii live with their parents into their thirties and forties, even while they have their own children. Or they move to Las Vegas. There are so many Native Hawaiians in Vegas right now that there are 14 halau hula (hula schools) in Nevada. I live on Molokai, and the largest private employer on the island closed up shop in April. That’s also when Aloha Airlines and ATA abruptly ceased operations. In shaky economic times, the risk that your airline might fold and strand you in Hawaii doesn’t exactly make people want to book vacations.

I’ve heard tell of a hotel on the Big Island where recent bookings have fallen off more than they did after 9-11 (You may remember that no planes but military planes were flying for a few days back then).

And you rarely hear anything about Hawaii in the news, anyway. When you hear that Honolulu or Maui has the most expensive gas in the nation, you don’t hear about Molokai ($4.599) or Lanai, where gas prices will be over $5 this week.

We’ve been fighting the crystal meth epidemic over here for more than a decade, but you didn’t hear about it in North America until it began to spread in small towns in the midwest!

And how much did you hear about the various movements for Hawaiian Sovereignty before you visited? The long-brewing disputes over water rights? The truth is, for mainland media outlets to provide extensive coverage of Hawaii, they’d have to send correspondents out here, and they can’t afford to send correstpondents out here. But they learned long ago that their readership is not interested. In a newsroom on the US east coast, they used to ***** a joke about how many people from each nationality would have to be killed in a tragedy to make the front page. The punchline was that -all- the Pacific Islanders would have to die to make A-1.

The cost and standard of living in Hawaii have been issues for a very long time. Most of the land over here is owned by a handful of entitites, many the estates of the children of the original missionaries. Lots of folks who grow up in Hawaii live with their parents into their thirties and forties, even while they have their own children. Or they move to Las Vegas. There are so many Native Hawaiians in Vegas right now that there are 14 halau hula (hula schools) in Nevada.

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