Question for those who moved back to Hawaii!!Thanks.?

"Take me back! Back to da kine!" I went to UH for 4 years and lived on Capitol Hill for three and a half. I missed Hawaii everyday. I joined a halau, and that helped a little bit. About halfway through I realized I needed to find a career that would take me back to Hawaii, so I went for certification in elementary ed. After all that, Honolulu wasn't going to be Hawaii enough for me, so I accepted a job on Molokai. Four years later, I'm supposed to be packing. Student populations are shrinking, teacher positions are being cut every year, and more Molokai folks are getting their teacher credential. Tomorrow is my last day working with the schools on this island. I'll be working with a cluster of schools on Maui in streamlining and strengthening the supports offered to students. I'll also be working with consultants from Edison Schools, as our schools face restructuring for failing to meet "Adequate Yearly Progress" under No Child Left Behind. I'm certainly happier than I was in DC! I was there for 9-11, the anthrax scare, the Beltway Sniper, shelter-in-place drills in the schools...Molokai has been a welcome change of pace. I'm more worried about the impact of an energy shock on a tourist based economy than I am the price of my own commute ($4.599 on Molokai, $4.409 on Maui). Rents are still outrageously expensive, I don't drink milk ($7.99 a gallon, last I looked), and I may never be able to buy a home on Maui (median price single-family home, $603,000 on Maui in April). But there isn't any place on earth I'd rather be than Hawaii Nei! "All over, mo' bettah, Molokai, I will return!"

i moved to georgia about a year and a half ago...we are planning to move back to hawaii in aug!!! and i will be very happy!! we moved to georgia cause my husband is in the mililtary..i was born and raised in hawaii all of my family is there so it will be very exciting to be going home...i miss everything about hawaii...the people, the food, the weather, the smell and even the ocean....

This is a statement more than an answer, regarding Beckee. You are too good to be true! Do you enjoy living in your land of hypocrisy, and pretentsious fraudulency? Or is it, that your American values are so deeply rooted in tradition, that you have some kind of hate for the Canadian people. Why was it accpetable for you to follow your dream ("find a career that would take me back to Hawaii"), but mine, to own property and to live there, wrong? You are a mainland transplant, (for your own selfish reason) that tells Hawaiian youth, and other prospective transplants, that what you yourself have done is wrong. Anyone else see the glaring double standard? Just because the profession you chose, however nobel it may be, will not be able to afford you the luxury of buying a home there, does not mean you have to discourage others from doing so! Again maybe its jealousy that a 23 year old male, from Canada, is earning triple what you make in a single year(an infinitesimal $46,161) without any of your praised "higher education". When I do buy my house there, maybe in a few years, shall I look you up? Maybe I can supplement your income with a house keeping job? I dont pay much, but possibly it can keep that learned mind going with some milk money, Sweetie. ---------------------- Negativity towards America? Lady you need to get off that crack pipe and lay off the botox. I actually like America, slightly, but its dumbshits like you that ruin the whole damn country. But I do appreciate your attitude, pretending you are Hawaiian. I know, along with anyone with half a brain, that you are a big phoney and you need to get laid more by your erectile disfunctionate husband. By the way, Im not in your "Land", this is the internet (an old senile person like you probably cant grasp that fact) so I will stay here as long as I please. You both act as if you act with the wishes of the "true Hawaiian's" in mind, but if this was the case, wouldnt you support their cause of separation from your home country. Im sure Hawaiians dont prefer Americans coming and taking their land over Canadians. Its such a shame as well that you both have to be so jealous of my home country. Its like what yours could be if you retard republican pawns werent caught up in a game of "follow the leader". It guess it just bothers me that both of you are so fake, right down to the core, but yet people dont know any better than to listen to you. By the way, your wrestling son is a homo, and Im pretty sure I nailed your youngest daughter! Ta for now my sweet! Or should I saw Aloha like you, ya phoney!:P Oh and thanks for that thumbs up whoever you are!

This is directed at DIDYAKNOW...I typically wouldn't even acknowledge such condescension and nastiness...but one thing I have truly come to love about OUR Honolulu Forum is the complete LACK of those two aforementioned negative qualities...we seem to be an upbeat POSITIVE group...and would like to keep it that way...now I'm not sure where BECKEE went "wrong" and seemed to offend you so deeply...but your RANT is not welcome here so take it back to CANADA...And don't even get me started on your negativity toward America...Remember, my sweet...YOU ARE A GUEST IN OUR LAND...ACT WITH SOME DIPLOMACY OR GO HOME...ALOHA!

Thanks for the comments!!