move to hawaii

saving $150.00 from each paycheck- will be moving in july 2010 with my best friend. Will live in Oahu and get residency in a year then go to UH. I was born in Hawaii but moved to Washington state when i was little. I still have family there and always felt like it was home. Want to move back and be surrounded by things i love and positive attitudes.

The wife and I are exploring all options as I plan to separate from the military in October of 2010. Hawaii seems to be the most inviting one to me. Although it is a long way off it gives us plenty of time to plan this move by buffing up our savings account. If we do this I will attend UH full time with assistance by the post 9/11 GI bill which will cover 100% of tuition and fees. Additionally it will also provide us with a monthly living allowance of 2200 per month for 36 months / 4 years of school. My wife will work full time in our first year to gain residency for in-state tuition rates, and I will join the Hickam guard / reserve so I get in-state tuition rates from the get go. This will also allow us to shop on the commissary and bx which will help save money. It looks like we will be able to get away with buying a small palce close to the UH campus anywhere from 800-1200 dollars/month, so really the only question mark is what kind of jobs we will be able to land. I spent my time in the military as a weather forecaster which isn’t very marketable on the outside and my wife has worked jobs such as disney, front desk at a hotel, and a cashier. We have plenty of money in savings, but just because we have it doesn’t mean we want to burn through it trying to survive in Hawaii. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

is beautiful. Visited Oahu in the summer of 2007 when I was 15? And fell in love with it the minute I stepped off the plane. It was really amazing, so different from upstate New York where I’m from. It was unreal how different I felt when I was there.

I got the chance to visit because my older sister attended HPU and during the last couple of weeks she had until her graduation, she asked us to come visit.

I’d love to live in Hawaii someday. I guess we’ll see.

My fiance and I are getting married in September. We live in LA, both have our whole lives, and HATE what the city has become; overcrowded, dirty, expensive, and exhausting! Everything is a task, going to the beach, going to the store, going to work. My family lives in Hawaii and the islands have always beckoned. Now it is time to go there and change our life. We both will go back to school, work, and start our lives together in our new home.

Next time I write here, it will be to record the completion of this goal.

For now, it is the scene at the end of the first season, and the second season is already in the works.

We had the drama, the dog drama. Our dog will be following us later. I cried. But it is going to be good for him. He is with my very good friend and her son, and they are delighted to have him. He is thrilled because he gets to roam their land and look after them.

What happened: his papers expired and we had to start fresh. When we come back at Thanksgiving, he will be ready for Hawaii and Hawaii for him.

And the house has just a little more to go. R got very ill and it has been so tough these last two weeks. He went river rafting and came back with something wrong. Still very tired. And I dropped a bed frame on my fingers and literally lost my grip for a couple of days. But we are doing better. And we leave day after tomorrow.

It has been so tough a time I booked us into a hotel at the airport the night before we leave, so we won’t miss our flight due to a traffic episode.

Tomorrow we sever our ties here with the internet, so until we are set up in Hawaii, I will drop in via cell phone.

A hui hou!

My wife and I are looking into moving to Hawaii. Any ideas where to begin, or advise?

Turns out we are not leaving Monday after all. The dog needs to go back to the vet first and get updated. And it turns out he can’t fly with us anyway as he goes on a cargo plane. And it costs big bucks. It turns out this move is expensive. Far easier to go without animals or possessions. But things are what they are, and the dog and the stuff come along.

Mr M has had the flu and that has been weird. He is on the mend and so far I seem to have avoided it. But it is a nasty one. He is usually amiable and kind, but the flu affected his personality. Made for a tough few days for both of us.

It turns out we can’t take extra baggage on the flight and can’t ship it cargo either, so now have too much stuff to bring along, and another dilemma. Sadly the stuff we are bringing is all the stuff we wanted right away, so… lots of work to figure out the shipping.

But we are moving to Hawaii before this week is over!

Tomorrow the furniture leaves. The next day we transfer the remainder of the stuff to various locations and clean, and the next day we finish cleaning and sleep somewhere, maybe the airbed.

Monday we get on the plane and Monday we will have moved to Hawaii.

My boyfriend is going to be stationed there for the Army, so I plan on moving there to be closer to him!

My dream is to live in Hilo. I originally planned to move there with my youngest daughter Lydia, after my oldest daughter graduates(she doesn’t want to change schools anymore)I have a bit of wanderlust and never stay anywhere too long. Even though my Lydie passed away in 2007, I still dream of living there. Summer 2012 is the plan.

I will be visiting Hilo for a week next month.