>The average cost of rent for a person here on Oahu in Honolulu is 74% of the average salary. Want to own a home? Average monthly mortgage cost is 118% of average salary. In other words you can rent and be broke forever and you can't ever buy a place. I see 4 or more people living in a 1 room studio apt all the time. Santa Cruz California -- where the rent is 82% of average salary - is the only city worse in the USA right now.

And then they complain that everything's expensive - personal trainers, babysitting, barber etc. That's because all those people have to live very far away, out of the zone from which they were priced out.