Moving to HAWAII in 2024? What to ACTUALLY expect.

[@RealHomerSimp2025]

Gas is still $1 less than California.

[@aluisious]

Also who cares what gas costs in Hawaii? What are you going to do, drive laps around the island? It's not like living in Texas or Montana.

[@kbanghart]

​@@aluisiousThat's for sure, I would never live in Texas unless I gotta really, really good job. I live near Sacramento, California and fortunately I get to work from home most of the time

[@brandonmoskos9149]

Moving there this Saturday. Have a one-way flight. 😁😁

[@livinginhonolulu]

awesome! Let me know if I can help.

[@brandonmoskos9149]

@livinginhonolulu Going to start looking for a place this weekend. Working for Queens

[@TylerKelley-bi7mx]

See ya in 2 months 🎉😂

[@livinginhonolulu]

@@TylerKelley-bi7mx amazing!

[@brandonmoskos9149]

Life has been great since I moved here on 8/3! Love it here.

[@electriquenikki]

Thank you SO much for this wonderful overview! I was shocked at how affordable condos are in different areas of Hawaii. I saw that some of the HOA's can be quite high but looks like lots of options!!!

[@waronfood]

I'm glad you found it helpful. Yes, HOA's can be very high, but it varies significantly between buildings, depending on age and how well it's managed.

[@ChuggaMugga69]

Me and a couple friends want to move to Honolulu later this year. We are currently preparing and planning everything we would need. This is a helpful video I may come back to use

[@livinginhonolulu]

Awesome, thanks! Let me know if I can help.

[@TattzByAli]

Moving Down there July 30th!! Excited and Ready for it!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽☝🏽☝🏽

[@livinginhonolulu]

awesome!

[@OreoZCookie2020]

What are you doing for work

[@TattzByAli]

@@OreoZCookie2020 I will be working at Skin Design Tattoo Studio under Robert Pho

[@kbanghart]

​@@OreoZCookie2020I have a family member moving to Oahu, they have a remote job so can work anywhere there's a good connection. I'm so jealous. In fact, trying to figure out how to stop being jealous lol.

[@TylerKelley-bi7mx]

Was it worth it?

[@shellyellisherrington2986]

Loved your video. Thank you ever so much for the information. Looking very forward to being a new resident in Alohaville. Mahalo❤

[@livinginhonolulu]

Glad it was helpful!

[@OreoZCookie2020]

I'll be finish with school next year as an X ray tech. Is there hospitals and clinics in need for one? Plan on moving my family to one of the Islands once i graduate.

[@livinginhonolulu]

Yes, there are 99 jobs I see on ziprecruiter for Radiology technologists in Hawaii. Let me know if I can be of help when you are ready!

[@pinegd1]

"Familiarity breeds contempt." A paradise for visitors can be a hell for residents that must deal with long term problems.

[@j.r.3945]

Yeah Puerto Rico going thru that rn

[@bill2066]

Lived Hawaii for 26 yrs. Could never move back, even if I wanted to. Just too expensive and risky.

[@jagervolant7871]

What’s risky about it? LOL

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

@@jagervolant7871 The odds of falling into homelessness like so many others. AND crime has REALLY become bad here, so there’s that too.

[@dustinmiller2775]

​@@jagervolant7871It was methed up for YEARS

[@bill2066]

@@dustinmiller2775 method?

[@maisy54135]

​@@bill2066He means drugs, methamphetamine (crystal meth).

[@reaganenglish]

Enjoyed the video. Thanks for the share !!!

[@livinginhonolulu]

Thank you for watching and sharing your feedback!

[@kristopherknapp1707]

I might move there with my wife from the the Philippines. It would be a nice compromise. I was looking at condos and surprisingly they arent that expensive. At least no worse than mystic Connecticut. I know some hawaiians here too. They work for my company. My company actually has a plant in Honolulu too. Im a supervisor transferring is easy.

[@livinginhonolulu]

That's awesome! When you are ready, please schedule a call here: bit.ly/callduc I'd love to help.

Why even comment? You added NOTHING of value. You're just showing off. 😑

[@alaylaanajacks5647]

Not a good idea. You'll be broke. A good compromise would be the mainland

[@electriquenikki]

Right??!! I was shocked at how affordable condos for sale are in hawaii, took me completely by surprise, so nice

[@Robert-eg2oy]

Hawaii has 21 army installations that they no longer need. Those installations can be turned over to the Hawaiian people for more living space.

[@alaylaanajacks5647]

It has one army base not 21 and all the homes are full

[@justinbussing338]

maybe some day its kinda pricey when I was there for a month for work

[@alaylaanajacks5647]

Driivng all around oahu is way less then 3hrs. I can do it in an hour when we lived there in 2021.

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

There’s a reason about 90% of videos about moving to Hawai’i are by realtors… they want the commission. I would suggest anyone considering moving to Hawai’i should get the “truth” from someone who isn’t incentivized by a commission.

[@Penta_Penguin_237]

Thank you again for your informed answer above.

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

@@Penta_Penguin_237 You’re very welcome.

[@liliavicol9433]

What would you advise a young couple that wish to benefit from the inflow of 6 mo leases on the market, to move temporarily to explore the nature bounty of the islands and do some work in the service industry meantime?

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

@@liliavicol9433 I’m not sure we have an inflow of 6 month leases on the market, generally speaking our leases are by the year in my experience… maybe you could find that on Airbnb… but be warned, locals here (& really a lot of places that have a lot of tourism traffic) are really trying to put a stop to Airbnbs. I don’t know what kinds of service jobs you’re referring to, or what island(s) you intend to visit, that would be the determining factor honestly, because some islands are cheaper than others… those islands also tend to not have as many jobs as the other islands. I’m not really clear on what you’re asking, but if you’re asking if I think that’s doable… depending on the job(s) you get, IF it were possible, money would be very tight I don’t imagine you would have a lot of time to explore, with how much work you’ll be having to do just to pay rent. Most locals here work multiple jobs just to barely scrape by OR live with family members and split the bills.

[@sunrayrosin7181]

It’s investors and people who choose to make their income taking financial value out of lands and homes they don’t live on or work on who have ruined Hawaii for all the people who were born and raised in Hawaii. Proove me wrong.

[@aluisious]

No, you're right.

[@kbanghart]

​@@aluisiousThis is why I probably won't ever move there, my wife and daughter feel this way which is of course, correct. Also, I'm jealous because a family member just moved there and is able to work remote, So of course in my mind she is enjoying going to the beach everyday after work, etc LOL

[@stevenleonard8212]

Can the big island use a plumber ..im 39 and looking to change my life up..currently in pittsburgh pa and need a refresh!..went to kona in october 23 and just have an urge to give back and live a different life

[@livinginhonolulu]

I think good plumbers are needed everywhere. There's a lot of new development going on there, so that could be a good opportunity to connect with developers.

[@marknewton6984]

Just go.

[@stevenleonard8212]

@@marknewton6984 you think so?..

[@marknewton6984]

Yes. Hawaii or Florida. Why not? 😎

[@kbanghart]

​@@marknewton6984ugh definitely not Florida

[@philjorgensen1950]

Aloha from Idaho. I have a HI RE License through 2024, and lived on Oahu and Maui 2x each from 2008-2022. Need help?

[@livinginhonolulu]

Sure, please send me an email at [e-mail]

[@alaylaanajacks5647]

Kayak is the worse to use. It over prices flights. Best prices for flights are directly from the airlines or skyscanner.

[@livinginhonolulu]

Or use points and miles if possible with tools like AwardTool or PointsYeah. For cash fares, I like Google Flights, which has an extension called PointsPath to see some award redemptions.

[@j.r.3945]

Tbh not far off from New York

[@alaylaanajacks5647]

Gas prices in hawaii is the same if not less then california

[@exlost245]

Im a filipino and planning to relocate to hawaii once i get my greencard

[@livinginhonolulu]

Awesome! There's a sizable Filipino community here.

[@blueberry4082]

You don’t help with rentals, right? Do you have any tips to start with?

[@Penta_Penguin_237]

Please Sir I need your precious opinion: I am 31 from Italy, In 2 years I will have 3 degrees, currently speak fluently 5 languages while I have studied 8 and I work as firmware developer in a French multinational company. Do you think I have a chance within the next two years to land a job in the tech sector in Hawaii? The 5 languages I speak: Italian, English, French, German, Chinese. Plus I have knowledge of Japanese, Spanish and Russian. The 3 degrees: Languages and cultures, Robotics, Applied artificial intelligence. The tech degrees have been undertaken under the stricter requirements of an international university in Germany.

[@livinginhonolulu]

I think you can get a remote job and work from anywhere, at which point you can choose to do so in Hawaii. AI is in demand now.

[@Penta_Penguin_237]

@@livinginhonolulu Thank you Sir! Well the best thing for me would be to work maybe a day or 2 remote but for the rest I want and I need a company to work in. Are there tech opportunities in Hawaii?

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

Not many tech jobs, no. And the few tech jobs there are will already be filled. Hawai’i has a lot of people who have to work multiple jobs to barely get by, so there’s not many jobs here. Hawai’i is also known for low paying jobs. The languages you mentioned won’t be of much of any help in job seeking, aside from Chinese, which may be a small help, but not much. Most of our international tourists (which is the sector languages would be helpful in) are not from China, they’re mostly from Japan. So if you are very fluent in Japanese, that would be helpful, but it’s a competitive market and a lot of people speak Japanese fluently here (we also have a lot of Japanese people who live here & I know from personal experience that companies will hire Asians in the tourism sector above other ethnicities because they feel people from Japan are more comfortable with them). You should also be aware that tourism doesn’t pay well at all, unless you’re in management maybe, but even then you’ll have to do that full time AND get other part time jobs, to afford living here. Just a note: it was determined recently that a single person with no children needs to earn $112,000 USD a year to comfortably get by in Hawai’i… you can’t earn that in tech and definitely not in the tourism industry. If you can earn that working remotely, then you could afford to live here, but I’ll be honest, you won’t be able to earn that easily here, you’d have to work multiple jobs just to get by, and what’s the point of living here if all you do is work and sleep and never get to enjoy living here? Note: most people here earn between $35,000 - $67,000 a USD a year (because there’s not much jobs and the jobs there are don’t pay much). The only way we can get by is by living with our families and splitting the costs. For someone who doesn’t have a family, you will have a very hard time affording living here. I would suggest you consider Thailand, Vietnam or the Philippines where the languages you mentioned would be more helpful in getting a job. Those countries have a high demand for people who can speak European languages because most of their tourists are from Europe and America.

[@Penta_Penguin_237]

@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Thank you, thank you and one more time thank you. This is life changing information. I will opt to Australia, New Zealand, Florida, Texas or California. Again thank you for each word of your reply.

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

@@Penta_Penguin_237 You’re very welcome. A lot of people move here because no one told them the truth & they end up homeless and living on the street and they get stuck here because they can’t afford a plane ticket to leave. I hate to see that happen if I can help it. I hope you find a place that works out for you.

[@achunable]

❤

[@kailani808]

Long story short….DON’T!

[@Turtlephartz]

No worries the same walking stick I came with is the same one that I’ll leave with.

[@AR-ly7yt]

Expect to be broke

[@HappyHermitt]

The problem is most Hawaiians dont participate in ekections. Self interested people count on them not voting, and get easy wins. The people are miserable and not represented because they refuse to participate. So they blame Haoles and tourists. If they want real change, they have to change. The damage is so bad that it wont change in a week, but its a start. Not voting has consequences. No matter how bad they dont want to be a part of the system, they are. They might as well participate. In 2016, the people spoke, and it shocked the establishment with a Trump win. Id love to see Hawaiians win and get real representation. The people that vote, and win, care more about the turtles and environment more than the plight of the people. Vote for true representation or quit complaining.

[@lawrencedaos3481]

NO DON'T MOVE TO ANY HAWAIIAN ISLANDS DON'T LISTEN TO HIM . MOVE WERE HE COMES FROM JAPAN , CHINA MAYBE KOREA THAT'S WERE YOU MOVE TO .

[@livinginhonolulu]

I'm from Vietnam, and Hawaii is way better.

[@Amalekkkkk]

As a Canadian can I put down payment and get a mortgage ? In Hawaii ?

[@livinginhonolulu]

Yes, it's possible. Send me a text or email and I can hook you up with a lender to chat more.

[@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

You should be aware that the state is considering banning foreign buyers… that’s something realtors won’t tell you, because they just want the commission.

[@aluisious]

@@livinginhonolulu Get a real job.

[@IuliaCovasan-nn7fh]

​@@livinginhonolulu what is your email address