Comments on: More Hawaii gripes

By: CG1

CG1 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:50:17 +0000

Ah-HAAAAA!!!! My instincts are alive and kicking. I visited HI for a week back around 2000. My impression? Everything in this blog was positively confirmed. We stayed in a nice hotel and drove around the island and the division between groups was immediately palpable. And the island (Oahu) was so small compared with the landmass of the mainland, I thought ‘man, I’d go nuts if I had to stick around this place all the time. What do these people do for a living other than cater to tourists and the military? Do they resent the military and whites?’ I saw shacks everywhere, which confirmed the idea that there are two classes in HI: extremely wealthy and everyone else who works to support them. And who’s in the crossfire? Tourists and temporary residents (the military) for looking like the wealthy class, even though the reality is those tourists and temp residents are probably seeing it once if ever and can barely afford it.

DOG hunts down criminals on HI. Most of them are strung out druggies. But think about it- no access to real financial advancement, nothing much to do, a feeling of being trapped on an island you can’t really enjoy that has been worn out by visitors, what else would you want to do other than drugs? I get it.

But the odd thing is, it’s so expensive to visit much less live there you have to wonder where all the money is going. Outside the tourist areas, where’s the progress all that money should bring? Where’s the infrastructure and beautiful public architecture? Shacks in the 21st century? Really?

The only people who could enjoy HI are tourists who are too drunk to notice how bad the place really is. I didn’t get drunk. Or, I should say, the crappy watered down drink I was served for $20 at that tacky lou-ow (however you spell it) didn’t have a chance in hell of getting me too drunk to notice what a terrible place HI is, and what a wonder it COULD be but isn’t.

By: ken price

ken price — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:19:09 +0000

I want to thank you all for the VERY enlightining comment’s[and I am sure they are truthful]you all have saved me f4om a very big mistake I have been thinking of[moving to hawaii/Maui.BTW, is Maui the same? email is kennethprice@q.com

By: dirk_steed

dirk_steed — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:06:16 +0000

Just came across this blog after googling “Hawaii Sucks” Thank you for re-affirming my sanity. If I brokedown and tore out my hair everytime I heard “Hawaii? Lucky you! Oh, you don’t like it? Whats YOUR problem?” I would have had a bloody scalp years ago.
Oh, and by the way, the bridge outside your work? Finally finished 12/10. Now they’re working on the other side…god knows how long that will take.

By: returning ex-military

returning ex-military — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:48:19 +0000

On returning to Hawaii, here are some of my observations:

1. Most Hawaii drivers are afflicted with CDS (can’t drive syndrome).
2. Due to the ’small town’ mentality here, many people don’t know to mind their own business. The flip side of this coin is that people presume to ‘know’ you; when in fact, they do not.
3. Many locals have never left the islands and have island tunnel vision (ITV). Anyone who has traveled, know we all live in a global community; but not someone afflicted with ITV. Thus a large part of the population are like Appalacian hillbillies . . . never been anywhere, can’t read and write English, etc.
4. Number 3 results in locals not having an understanding that people come from various upbringings and experiences. Thus, island tunnel vision . . . there’s a local and mainland dichotomy, with ‘mainland’ ways being totally unfathomable to local hillbillies.

There’s more, but I’ll stop here. Just think ‘island hillbilly’ and the way things are in Hawaii starts to become clear.

By: Timothy Hazlett

Timothy Hazlett — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:28:11 +0000

I was a military brat in the early ’70s. I have white tone skin. When I started the 7th grade is when I learned first hand of racism. I was bullied every day. The dark skin kids would group up and antagonize, rob and come up with any reason to give holies an unwelcome mat. I lived there for three years and to this day I’ve developed a prejudice and an untrust of Hawaiians in general. So the term holie represents a person without a soul? I guess they see me as souless. I am not surprised. I don’t want to ever go back.