I agree with Kenji. Stayed in Makaha Valley the last time I visited. My fave area so far of many stays. I'd totally live there. Loved the vibe out there. Great video!

Moved here 1970. Some really dumb things have been done with traffic, namely dumb, dumb bus system. Used to take my girl over an hour to commute to school 10 miles away by bus. I drove her the first 3 miles in my car. Still one more hour left. Look at the freeway. See any busses? Just one bus on the freeway would remove 20 to 50 cars. But, no, gotta build rail that nobody, no, nobody will want to use. Dumb, again, and a boondoggle. This is my home, though, my forever home. You take the bad with the good and deal with it.

Lived on Maui for years then moved back here to Oahu due to rising costs on Maui. Everything said in this video is very accurate. Fresh meat from the mainland gets the bottom tier jobs but you prove yourself and quickly work your way up. I remember my first car on Maui was a $1400 Maui cruiser with running AC. Within a year I had worked up to a much better used car and by 3 years was in a new car. Thankfully the Islands have a way of spitting out new comers that try to bring their mainland attitude here. That's a no go. Great video!🎉❤🌺🌴

Punaluu is awesome n it's not a long drive to everything

I would kill to live in kahaluu!!!!

I could hear fireworks 24 7 n b happy as hell!!!!

Great videos!!! Glad to have come across you page cuz I’m only familiar with Waikiki not the outskirts of Hawaii.

Respectfully, MAHE is Gorgeous ❤. Hope to be Home soon. Aloha from NY.

Fireworks omg. Kailua-Kona July 4th back in 83 was insanity. Crazy crazy fun. Bottle rockets going horizontal instead of vertical. Aah the good old days✌️❤️

STILL CAN'T AFFORD IT WHAT A F. KING WASTE.

U know you're living in Paradise when the locals whinge about salt spray, occasional windyness and increased rust from the maritime climate

It’s good for our kids to know that there’s a big wide world out there and there’s more to life than Hawaii and Las Vegas.

Loved my time in Wahiawa! Ate at Maui Mike's twice in one week. Hit the Botanical Gardens. I jogged past that coffee shop in the mornings. My son and caught a movie and ate at Five Guys in Mililani. Woke up with the roosters hahahaha! Took Exit 8 (how we remembered where to go). Love the channel.

Don't move to kialua if have no hawaiian blood and are japaney and are especially Haole, you come and try invade the local traditions. Before my grandmother was full hawaiian they made her, my mother and her brothers from speaking the hawaiian language. Haoles looked down on the native hawaiians treated them like 2nd class citizens. Was it fair No it wasn't. US Goverment dosen't even believe in our sacred traditions they pollute our aquafilters with contaminated and only say SORRY.

Ain’t Vegas also hyper sexulized

So who are the ones dumbing the ting on the side of the road???

Holoholo Pakalolo

They hate micronesians.

If you Haole get yourself one tita and let her scrap for you.

Great video, just a clarification: homeowners can't 'defend' their home because hardening the coastline worsens coastal erosion and beach loss.

Love the video. I just moved to this area, about 2 and a half years ago. I love this area. 🤙🏽

Even Hoopilli goes hard with fireworks. We love it and my family comes from mainland every year now since we moved in! New years is awesome 🎉🎉🎉

Man, I live in the Puget Sound/ Seattle area, the prices are pretty much the same if not more in some places over here. Hell, I researched internet servide the other day and it would be half the cost of what I have available to me now. Some of the stuff you talk about was pretty universal, like gas prices and supply chain issue. I work in residential remodels, everyone was having trouble getting apppliances at this time. After a couple vacations there, my wife and are working on figuring out how to move over. I have absolutely fallen in love with the cutlure, people, and landscale. The concept of Aloha and traditonal Hawaiian beliefs have connectioned with me in ways Christianity and western culture never have. Thanks for the video, I already dealing with most of these negatices where I live now, hard to find a reason not to give it a shot.

I was born raise Makaha. Place is so busy now. Four houses on one lot these days. So loud now. Over building has ruin the islands for me.

I had a friend who was born and raised on the main island. I went to Hawaii for a month with her, her boyfriend, and my girlfriend. All her friends were super cool to me. But once we started drinking the male friends were really talking shit to her boyfriend, but my Scandinavian pail ass they had no problem with. The only time I was messed with I was jumping off the cliff at Waimea Bay. I was about to jump then a local guy my age said "a real man jumps from here" which was a good three feet from the cliff. So my pride got the better of me and I said, "cool I'm gonna go from here." then jumped from four feet away. I damn near skidded down into the water, but I proved my manhood to a total stranger. lol

Your childhood stories remind me of growing up in old Ewa plantation. I tell my kids these stories and they ask why they can't go do that kine stuff. I feel sad because get too many chronics and people with mental problems by where we live in Pearl City. And yeah, Popolo Boi's chicken is bomb! Nice dude too.

Oh, Sir, I am 68, just diagnosed with “advanced” female cancer. Glad I live in Northern Virginia, where I lucked into a luxury condo. A Bangladeshi man comes daily to care for me. Life’s good, but no treatments (too old?).

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Keep it real. You shouldn’t be selling fake titles of land and fake deeds for your fake career in real estate in Hawaii. All the fraudsters about to get their perceived properties liened . It’s all on the record. No annexation no 50th state. No treaty. War crimes. As the Hawaiian kingdom rises. We get to watch the fraudetsters and see exactly who’s selling land for the war criminals for insolvent banking instruments through corporate fraud supporting human trafficking and land trafficking. No say I didn’t comment. So busy trying to sell off lands that belong to allodial land owners. Watch when their careers end for such reasons such as war crimes, racketeering, exploitation, sedition, yup it’s call coming down the pipeline.

Very interesting conversation gentleman. I'm an old Korean dude from nyc that's never been to hawaii but have learned a lot observing channels like yours and having known some Koreans that moved over to the mainland. I feel that whites that grew up in Hawaii are in a unique position to understand the Asian experience in the mainland. And that part has always interested me. I literally typed in haole and your video was at the top lol. It used to be that guy that would be yelling at the tourists having a picnic lol.

Bra, you are not moving out of Mililani ! You not moving out you moving around ... out is a different district. Just saying ?

Baldwin Bears Maui. Used to get beat up all the time. Had a blast, still live here. All my friends are gone now or dead.

Yup:.: don’t lay on the horn…

hokas and uppababy stroller... sound like me LOL

Ayyyyyeeee that's a Render 808 painting on that back wall! Meeeeaaannnnn

First of all thank you brahda!! for the touring, filming, experience, breaking it down and explaining to everyone watching. Great memories, Waianae is a family friendly area, when you treat the people in that area with aloha, they will show you the aloha right back. It was funny that you were taking a drive on to orange street, I was born and raised in Makaha on orange street, up until 2001 when I turned 21, now 44 my parents decided I should move away to Alaska, so I did. I own my own house and have my own family, But lately been thinking about moving back home to Makaha when I retire. Much Mahalos again!! 🤙🤙🤙

More video of businesses and other places

Come to Waianae… Tattoo lady would fit in…

Hawaii is not cheap.. almost everything is shipped in from US Ports due to the Jones Act. Also taxed on everything and anything.. born & raised Native Hawaiian moved to NYC. I fly home 1-2x a year. Flts is expensive, cheaper to fly to Europe and stay in Airbnbs which Hawaii does not allow.

Great video, exceedingly valuable and useful knowledge transfer, thank you Sir.

So true!

The locals hate us.

Lived on Machado st and had family live throughout Kalihi. Guarantee you drove past my cousin Souza's house on kalihi st. Went to Kamehameha. I'm Portuguese Chinese Hawaii. Lots of Portuguese live in Kalihi and went to St Johns Catholic church. I too turn on/ off my Pidgin. When my kids were young they couldn't understsnd me talking pidgin. They older now and understand and talf some pidgin too. Good video.

Been there done dat. Moved to OREGON on 3 acres. Miss home but get 10 plate lunch places here. Outdoors is like a dream.

It does exist just like in every other place in the world.

Nice video. I grew up in the border of Kaimuki and Kahala so my home is walking distance from Kahala Mall. It is comparably modern in aesthetics to the homes in Kahala. We do have a carport but we also have a gate to block thieves and intruders. We have a Pomeranian and she stays in doors at all times but there are many dogs in my street that are left outside in their yard by the owners.

Even the red dirt reminds me of the gulf. XD

Sounds to me that you're comparing an ex-urban area compared with suburban or small town areas. Interesting.

Yokohama's connects to mokolea