I grew up on a Pacific Island, Taiwan, and moved to the US when I was 6 yo. We also moved back there when I was in HS and finished HS there and went to college at UCLA.
My wife and I married in 1996 and in 1999, we decided to move to Hawaii while we were younger and not as a retirement place. She had lived her whole life in CA and never lived on an island. The climate is warm and moist and our complexions are always better when we live here. So we tried it out and moved here and bought a condo back in 1999.
We have moved back and forth but have stayed our longest spell since 2004. It is very hard to find rewarding work here in Hawaii but we have made some money in real estate.
We miss much of the variety of living in a large city, and fly over to Honolulu occasionally to sample big city life. We do often see rainbows and now are getting rain in the evenings almost everyday. The west side of each island usually gets much less rain than the eastern sides of all the islands. That is why you see the lush rain forests on the north and eastern side of each island.
Hawaii is a beautiful paradise to live in and we really enjoy being in the ocean, swimming with turtles and dolphins. In fact, I am going with a friend this morning to go diving at a location where 80 dolphins were reported yesterday.
A hui ho…. (til we meet again)