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This is the second of three posts about our 2025 Hawai'i trip. The first post is here.
I'm getting more used to Hawai'i. I don't bat an eye at all the surfer dues and beach bunnies wandering into shapes in their swimwear, nor do I think "But it's December!" when I walk out into another 25ºC sunny day. I suspect a big portion of it, though, is that this is my ideal food situation--Japanese food is plentiful and easy to get, and if I wanted to live on fish and rice and pickles and fruit, it would be very easy for me to do so here. Not cheap, of course, because nothing on Hawai'i is cheap, but easy.
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sashagee is already trying to convince me to move here, half joking and half serious. There's a variety of problems with that. For example, there already aren't enough jobs for the people who do live here--over half of all native Hawai'ians live outside of Hawai'i--which puts a damper on any attempt to build a life here. My sister wanderluster_kp, who makes more than I do as a veterinary surgeon, is almost priced out of buying a house. She could afford it, but it'd lead to either an hour-long commute if she lived further away or having to completely give up travel if she bought something closer, andshe's not really willing to do either of those things. She also told us that the public schools here are not super great, which is something we have to really worry about now that we have Laila, and the Jewish community is almost nonexistent (0.5% of residents). But man does the food perfectly fit what I want to eat.
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I'm getting more used to Hawai'i. I don't bat an eye at all the surfer dues and beach bunnies wandering into shapes in their swimwear, nor do I think "But it's December!" when I walk out into another 25ºC sunny day. I suspect a big portion of it, though, is that this is my ideal food situation--Japanese food is plentiful and easy to get, and if I wanted to live on fish and rice and pickles and fruit, it would be very easy for me to do so here. Not cheap, of course, because nothing on Hawai'i is cheap, but easy.
sashagee is already trying to convince me to move here, half joking and half serious. There's a variety of problems with that. For example, there already aren't enough jobs for the people who do live here--over half of all native Hawai'ians live outside of Hawai'i--which puts a damper on any attempt to build a life here. My sister wanderluster_kp, who makes more than I do as a veterinary surgeon, is almost priced out of buying a house. She could afford it, but it'd lead to either an hour-long commute if she lived further away or having to completely give up travel if she bought something closer, andshe's not really willing to do either of those things. She also told us that the public schools here are not super great, which is something we have to really worry about now that we have Laila, and the Jewish community is almost nonexistent (0.5% of residents). But man does the food perfectly fit what I want to eat. ( Friday )
( Saturday )
( Sunday )
