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[LuckyNomad]

I lived on Oahu from 1997-2006. My parents still live there. Need to know stuff, just ask me.

[Tiger Beer]

[Dukey77777]

[LuckyNomad]

well, rent there is pretty high. Don't think that you'll show up and suddenly buy a house. If that were the case then everybody in the US would be living there. I lived with my parents until I left. Cheap rent is often between $1,000-2,000 a month. I lived on the nice side of the island(best looking, few tourists), which was about 20 minutes away from Honolulu.
As far as race is concerned, Hawaii is the exact opposite of Korea. I'd say at least half the population if not more, is made up of bi/tri/quad and multiracial people. Me being one of them. So everybody marrying everybody else and everybody being multi-ethnic is normal. If you a purely white and not born in Hawaii, you would be at the low end of the totem pole. The word "waegookin," will be replaced by the words, "Haoli or Mainlander." They mean the same thing as waegookin but people won't point or stare at you. I notice that a lot of people on this board dislike Korean culture and mock their way of doing things. DO NOT do that in Hawaii.
Crime is extremely low even though there are 800,000 people living on Oahu. It's probably the safest place in the US.
Jobs that I worked were KFC(when I was in highschool), being a preschool teacher, and working graveyard shift at a gas station. The pay for all of those was low.Obviously. Most jobs are in the tourist industry. I'm not sure what kind of skills you have or what you want to do.
It's always summer(when is starts getting to be in the 60's on the farenheit scale, I felt like I was freezing).
It was a really nice place to live, but after so many years of being there, I was starting to go batty and needed to move on. Tropical beaches are nice until you've seen them 2,000,000 times.

[Tiger Beer]

LuckyNomad,

So do you miss Hawaii now? I've heard of Island Fever, but it seems like once you got off the island, you'd miss it. Then again I grew up in one of those snow-filled climates, and have no desire to ever live in a snow-intense climate again.

I've heard a lot about the haole thing, I've never been bothered much by being a waegookin myself, so hopefully being a haole wouldn't effect me much either. I am curious though, white guy with filipina wife living in Hawaii, would probably be a big plus, I'd imagine, right? As opposed to a haole couple that would just show up. Anyways.

Thanks for the Hawaii insight. My last time in Honolulu I was standing at a bus stop on Nuuanu Street reading a book while standing there. There was also an Asian guy. A very local looking guy just started hammering the Asian guy "why did you move to Hawaii?", "where are you from?", "what is wrong with the place you came from?", and "why don't you go back?". I was reading a novel and just sitting there listening to the barrage. Previously I'd thought Asian and Local were aligned, but after that realized that Asians get the same thing if they aren't local. I guess since I was standing there reading a book, he gave me the benefit of the doubt that I might have been local? - not sure. He really had his choice on that one.

[victorology]

I was born and raised in Hawaii. That haole thing depends a lot on where you choose to hang out and what situations you get yourself in. The safe bet. Don't act dumb and you won't be harassed. A lot of abuse would come while you're in school where you have no choice but to associate with groups of locals who want to pick on Haoles.