HAWAII is not "THE MAINLAND"

[@bb_alexander5385]

Solid solid video. Truth 100% I’m from mainland and you hit the points of living here from mainland right on head. I already seems so many people come here thinking this place will heal them but in the end they are back on mainland because of what you said. Hawaii without family ties and solid work it will make you want to leave. Most importantly when moving here is establishing both of those first. Otherwise your time is counting down.

[@jftalarico]

Having just moved to Oahu, I can confirm all of these points, but especially the "small town" sentiment. We moved from a city in NY with a population of around 150k (650k with all of the suburbs). Honolulu feels VERY similar in terms of being able to navigate thru the city and the general attitude of the residents. Unlike other larger cities in NY > 1M people, or even Boston (and especially NYC), those larger East Coast cities feel like you're constantly doing battle just to get on and off a highway. And the East Coast attitude you encounter on a daily basis is more competitive than cooperative.

[@movingtohawaii]

Thank you for the comment 🤙🏽

[@CLee-qh3er]

Just remember this ain’t da mainland. Drive wit aloha. No battle.

[@pdeforest]

I have been coming to Hawaii for 40 years. I love the land and the people. I have been on Oahu since Covid. I agree with everything you said. But I have never had rock fever. I wake up every morning in love with the place. I hope I never lose that.

[@Tr0nzoid]

Anyone I knew in Hawaii or talked to from Hawaii used the term Mainland for the whole of the continental United States.

[@SomeOne-mp6ym]

That's correct. Don't know what he is talking about.

[@movingtohawaii]

The “continent” thing is more recent in certain Hawaiian circles. I say mainland 🤷‍♂️🤙🏽

[@JessicaHolmes]

Hawaiian from Alameda, CA 🤍 I moved to Ō’ahu after graduating high school to attend UH Mānoa, and although I had never been to Honolulu (we always went Big Island growing up to visit family), I immediately felt “at home,” especially in Mānoa Valley, because it was so similar to Alameda. City, but small town. Everybody knows everybody. Right on with this video. Love your content!

[@SandraBrooks-m5q]

Great video. Good information. Thank you. 😊

[@dealman3312]

Couldn’t agree with the info more brotha. Its good for people to know some of the weeds of the subject

[@wandasanchez551]

Love living in Alameda. Small town feeling. I travel from frequently from my island to your island. Have family on Oahu

[@Quacker701]

We live in a dr horton home, built in early 2011. They cut corners and used cheap building materials. Lots of ppl still having issues.

[@wikolib6821]

Broadcasting from Costco Hawaii Kai. Cool. My local wife and I moved to "da continent", i.e. "the mainland" when we retired. Can drive not fly, much better supply chain and much better availability of goods and services, much better quality of housing and much more affordable, much lower cost of living, much better availability of medical care and services (very important for us retired folks), much better quality of life. Not going to disclose where we are, but it's pretty awesome. "Choose carefully" as the crusader said in Indiana Jones. Love Hawaii, but those are our facts, Jack. Edit: And, the traffic on Oahu is nuts, as well as Kauai and Maui. Big Island not as much but west side traffic is bad. Where we are the traffic has been great but it's starting to get heavier because it's becoming "discovered".

[@movingtohawaii]

I want to know where. How cold is it?

[@minh8080]

Forget Sodastream. Just go get one co2 bottle and an adapter. You can KZbin it.

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

This is so informative. Thank you!

[@movingtohawaii]

You are welcome. Glad you found it informative!

[@mindlab780ab6]

Cheeehoo! 🤙🏼

[@movingtohawaii]

Yesssah

[@DutchInman]

Summary it all up, only the strong will survive.😊

[@TitoEdwards]

Good job braddah Derek! "The land will heal me", LOL. . . on another note, is Hawaii ever going to tax those from the mainland that have a second home in Hawaii. Or tax the AirBNB folks? They take a lot of inventory out of the market and it drives up prices for locals trying to purchase a home. My friends still on Kauai and Oahu complain about these two points (and me too. . .I got priced out, stayed on mainland).

[@calebbliss8626]

I am from Colorado (I was born in South Carolina but my family has been in Colorado since around the 40s) and my wife and I moved to Maui around a year ago to be around her family who also moved here from Colorado. I can say that in Colorado hardly anyone has outside dogs year round but tons of people do here which was definitely kind of a culture shock to me. Tbh though the biggest culture shock to me was how many people never use a turn signal here 😂😂

[@Jose_Jimenez]

I built our 2400 sqft home here in Fresno, CA for $92 / sqft back in 2000. Had I been living in Hawaii, I'd still be working and paying for a little shack.

[@carlover4239]

Yeah but we both know Fresno is….. well, Fresno.

[@goorant]

​@@carlover4239amen

[@movingtohawaii]

Haha both are accurate here. Fresno is close to sequoia national park though and that’s cool

[@goorant]

@movingtohawaii but we surf so, it's like being a skier n living, in well, fresno. We can follow the season by driving a t most 60 miles. N s e w shores

[@Jose_Jimenez]

@@carlover4239 Whaaaaaat?

[@stevencamacho6474]

the anchor thing is huge wirh UH students. every semester it seems half or more of the kids from california went back home and were replaced with more kids from california

[@movingtohawaii]

This makes sense although it’s prob true elsewhere too for young kids Leaving home

[@DutchInman]

We all agree with you, however, not only is Hawaii anyway in any shape any form as California or anywhere else for that matter. I know this may sound awkward to those who are new to our islands , more than anything else now you are mine, and Island’s not California, but different parts of Asia as you will see in Japan, etc., go figure that. Actually we are seeing more Asian business owners , as well as land owners and a few other parts of the world coming in to do business here in Hawaii. One of the biggest problem we have for situations that we put our self in. Is that when these visitors come here the end of trying to tell us how to live , what we should be doing that’s not right, how to raise our families, how to raise our animals, how to manage our soil in our land, how to manage our oceans in resources, and we’ve been doing this for many generations. We don’t need their help , as Island born and raised , we don’t agree. If you continue to move forward with the master plan to rebuild Hawaii, then we will also be on a path culture destruction, and our history loss. Think about it.😢

[@squeento]

On the Big Island, we call the mainland Aye-merica. When mainlanders reference their home, they always say, "back in the states "😂

[@onekewlbraddah8460]

well duh

[@hilly971]

No forget you are limited on banks as well.

[@duke613]

Dogs always belong in the house with the family.

[@jaquima36]

Oprah, Bezos, and the Rock agree with you on wealth storage

[@movingtohawaii]

Yea.. 🙁

[@Lkdnh]

Don't forget Zuckerberg and my guess 75% of the Kakaako Condos are out of state owners.

[@jaquima36]

@@Lkdnh it’s not supposed to be an exhaustive list. My family is indigenous to North America and we are the first generations not raised on the Rez. Take the best land and move the locals to the poorest pieces and make sure they can’t buy or beg their way out.

[@Lkdnh]

@@jaquima36 Relax, my comment was not intended to criticize yours. Your experience sounds like what is starting to happen in Hawaii. Our politicians have to make Hawaii less attractive to buyers not intending to live in the property.

[@jaquima36]

@@Lkdnh I’m not anxious. No reason to relax.

[@dustinmiller2775]

It IS in The United States, though. 💯

[@fijiunlimited4503]

Hawaii has more in common with S.E Asia than it does the mainland / N. America.😂

[@SomeOne-mp6ym]

Explain.

[@garygrassler09]

I got lucky to get paid to live in Hawaii haha

[@RhiaSky]

Military?

[@MokuleiaVibes]

That’s not going to sit well with kānaka . Kind of feels insensitive to the locals who struggle to even be able to stay on their own ‘Aina and end up priced out of paradise and forced to move to continent just to survive. A little humble pie might be a good thing to learn if you live here.

[@garygrassler09]

@ 😂😂😂

[@garygrassler09]

@ humble pie? I literally said lucky. Calm down it was 15 years ago.

[@kellygregg3688]

It's often times worse on the main island oahu

[@OLHDHs]

Comparisons are odius !!! 😢😢😢

[@movingtohawaii]

1. I had to look up “odious”. 2. Why?

[@keaka560]

It is no longer referred to as the mainland. If you are truly from here, you never call another place “mainland”. It is the continent

[@Jose_Jimenez]

Another great video. The only thing I miss in Hawaii is family. The only option for kids nowadays is to go to college on the Mainland, and hopefully get a good job and buy a home. A very nice home can still be gotten for $400k.

[@goorant]

But u sound like bj penn😂

[@movingtohawaii]

I always get comments that I look like BJ, but not that I sound like him 😂

[@KinokoCardano]

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