>>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.
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>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.

Everything IS more expensive on Oahu though -- the food prices are insane and everything is expensive. Keep in mind that you gotta ship to a tiny island in middle of nowhere -so the costs of stuff gets nuts.