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On some parts of Oahu people have to get up at 5am to get to work by 8am. The freeways look like parking lots during rush hours that can stretch a normally 30 minute commute into a two hour crawl. We know of friends that moved to LA from Honolulu and they think Honolulu is worse. Various national reports show Hawaii’s traffic as some of the nation’s worst.
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Image may have been resized or cropped from original Sunday morning traffic by kimubert is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Yes, even our Sunday morning drives are packed in! Reason #5 you should not move to Hawaii: First time home ownership nearly impossible Hawaii has the high costs of big mainland cities with pay scales of small isolated towns and that’s a double whammy that’s hard to swallow. Many people from big mainland cities say that Honolulu’s cost of living is similar to where they live which is true, but when those people compare what they will be paid to do the same job in Honolulu they are understandably shocked by the pay cut. So you really end up taking a double-hit: first you get hurt due to a much higher cost of living than nearly any other city and then you get whacked with a pay cut. Expect a 20% cut in pay or more from what you’re making on the mainland. Reason #4 you should not move to Hawaii: Pay is below national averages despite much higher cost of living.īecause everyone wants to live here and is willing to work for less (admittedly this is just our guess and not a data research-backed conclusion), the result is that jobs here pay much less than their mainland counterparts. Should you live in Hawaii? Take the quiz! And we haven’t even talked about buying a house yet. So combine this with the $150k income to start and you’re up to $200k/yr in gross income. If you have two children, you’re talking $34k/yr and that’s after taxes so about $45k-$50k/yr of your gross income will go to paying for private school. In 2021 you can expect to pay around $17k/year per student. The problem with private schools is that due to high demand, it’s expensive. In 2018 WalletHub ranked Hawaii #39 overall and #43 for “Quality”. Hawaii’s public school system usually sits near the bottom of various national rankings. Hawaii has one of the largest capacity (per-capita) of private schools in the nation and that’s because parents try to avoid Hawaii’s public schools if they can. Reason #3 you should not move to Hawaii: Near the bottom in public education And once you get past that, you’ll need to build trust and respect in the community to get customers and that becomes a big catch-22: You need customers to build trust and respect but you need trust and respect to get customers. If the business is in a regulated industry, you’ll have to deal with very long streams of red tape.
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It’s just that you will have a much, much harder time starting and running a business here than almost anywhere else. It’s not impossible though as Hawaii has thousands of successful small family businesses. If you’ve dreamed owning a business, Hawaii is going to make it many, many times harder for you to succeed. On various rankings, Hawaii nearly always comes at the bottom of the list in terms of starting a business. Reason #2 you should not move to Hawaii: One of the worst places to start a business Unless you’re already a multi-millionaire. If you can stay here for the long term you can work your way up, but on day one be prepared to live a vastly downgraded lifestyle. If you’re going to live in Hawaii, you need to be prepared to live a lifestyle of comparative poverty. And if you have a larger family, you’ll need more and possibly a lot more income. Put it simply, in Hawaii as of 2019 you need to be earning at least $150k a year to have what on the mainland can be had for $75k/yr. Many family work several jobs, live paycheck to paycheck, have substandard (by mainland comparison) housing conditions, very little expendable income and at any moment are living on the financial edge. The “middle class” in Hawaii lives at what their mainland counterparts would consider poverty levels. Image may have been resized or cropped from original.