Comments on: What Are the Social Problems in Hawaii?

By: Peter Kay

Peter Kay — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:34:49 +0000

In reply to Wendy vranceschini. Yes that's the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Thank you for sharing!

By: Wendy vranceschini

Wendy vranceschini — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:00:08 +0000

When we were there it was a celebration for Elvis’s birthday, as we both loved Elvis it was great hearing all his music, going to the pink palace I think it was called

By: Mrs Wendy Franceschini

Mrs Wendy Franceschini — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:54:04 +0000

My husband and I went to Hawaii some years ago, mainly Waikiki it was beautiful, and the people were lovely, my husband has passed on, he was ill and in a wheelchair when we went there, but so many people helped out, he always wanted to go back‍

By: Peter Kay

Peter Kay — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 10:25:50 +0000

In reply to Amelia. I would not allow myself to be interrupted and I would not surrender my views and beliefs

By: Amelia

Amelia — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 09:47:28 +0000

In reply to Jojo. how would you feel if your entire life was interrupted by people who told you that your views and beliefs were wrong.

By: Bill Mey

Bill Mey — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 04:28:31 +0000

In reply to Darren. Hawaii is a state in the US stop acting like it's yours. I can move to California, Texas, Nebraska, Alaska and Hawaii. All a state in the US. If tourism didn't exist the homeless rate would be 50 percent it's NOT your state it's ours!!

By: Peter Kay

Peter Kay — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:16:16 +0000

In reply to Jim Ellis. Each island can be very different. This perspective was from one living on Oahu

By: Jim Ellis

Jim Ellis — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 10:29:28 +0000

Not even a mention of the big island. Wow

By: Peter Kay

Peter Kay — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:58:42 +0000

In reply to nohi. Use the contact form and I'll email you back right after that. If you got my newsletter you could just reply to that.

By: nohi

nohi — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:47:21 +0000

In reply to Peter Kay. I would love to write a article or something for you. Do you have any way i could contact you regarding this? like a email or something? ( i am replying to your other comment but i had a hard time replying to that one so i am using this reply to the comment about writing a article )

By: Peter Kay

Peter Kay — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:53:55 +0000

In reply to nohi.

I’m so glad you responded. How about if you write an article? Would you want to do that? I’d love to post it here and give you credit for it. Each of us brings our own story and perspective and I’d love to publish yours.

BTW: pls note at the bottom of this article – I myself did not personally write it. But this doesn’t matter – I’d love you to write something.

By: nohi

nohi — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:22:09 +0000

In reply to Peter Kay.

If your article is to Preserve the beauty of Hawaii, both physical and spiritual, by educating and acclimating those that have newly arrived but you are telling them to go to hawai’i and one of the reasons why hawai’i isnt beautifl anymore is due to tourists and the way they are like how they use the land for profit it is an act of enviromental crimes and in hawai’i us kanaka use the land and we also give back to the land because we believe that ” He Ali’i Ka ‘Ä€ina; He KauwÄ ke Kanaka ” and in simple form this means treat the land as a chief because the land provides for us. I think in your article you should have a section relating to the ” €˜Äina” or the land and maybe some of the “loina hawaii” or hawaiian customs because as a hawaiian i would want the people moving here to know about the customs and culture instead of learning about the traffic and the homeless. You should educate yourself in things like the customs and you should educate your readers that too many hawaiians would appreciate you for that I am a sixteen year old going to a Hawaiian immersion school and maybe I can teach you about the loina and customs of the island and culture I am not trying to be mean or anything i am just trying to educate the uneducated or miss-educated in things relating to my native culture and to just bring awareness in a way

By: Peter Kay

Peter Kay — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:59:20 +0000

In reply to nohi. First, I agree. For you, this website is a waste of time. It's not for you. Read the Mission and Purpose. Thanks for sharing your opinion. At the end of the day with websites like mine and others, all we can do is share our own perspective. Whether it's someone of Mediterranean ancestry moving to hawaii, or whether it's someone of native Hawaiian ancestry being born and raised in hawaii. Everyone has different perspectives and it's interesting to see all them, like yours..

By: nohi

nohi — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:45:12 +0000

in my opinion i think your whole website is a waste of time as a real “local” not someone that moved to hawai’i. I am a native hawaiian surrounded in the rich culture. You say Hawaii’s roads aren’t big enough but really hawai’i wasn’t made to provide for this many people.Your whole website is about living in “Hawai’i” but in reality it’s just you talking and giving advice on how to live on O’ahu. Most of the things in your article is like a “survival guide” on how to live in on the island of O’ahu but as a person i view it as common sense.. like obviously someone’s gonna call if you’re parked on the property but most of the time when that happens it’s from a “white person” uneducated about the loina of kapu aloha or it’s a really pissed hawaiian that probably just had a bad day.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 07:20:13 +0000

Like anywhere there are pros and cons. For me the pros are the weather, quality of life in general, diverse population, outdoors/beaches, etc. The cons are the cost of living (housing, food, etc.), limited supply of quality good paying jobs (compared to mainland metropolitan areas), the pace may be too slow for some. There are many kind people here, and some low brows. I would generally characterize the people here as down to earth and rooted. Large homeless population. Your attitude and respect is everything here, very important. As the saying goes: “This ain’t the mainland”. I’ve met some very nice locals, and a few unhappy haters. By the way I’m not haole.
As long as you are a good person and have a good attitude, you can build your OWN friends & support with like minded people.

By: Alan Mcghee

Alan Mcghee — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 03:13:07 +0000

Just got back from 12 days with my wife and two two grown daughters, on Oahu, Hawaii, Maui.. had a great time, never met a rude person, etcfor the “natives” who hate whites and dont want us moving therewhen we travel, my family is very respectful of other cultures, and the local environment..I can’t imagine saying I don’t want blacks moving from Georgia to Florida? You were the first orioles on that rock, and you won’t be the lastYou’re part of the USA, like it or not, and no one has to “immigrate” to your state it’s just as much my state as yours!!!!

Welcome to the 21st Century.

By: Gail Griffin

Gail Griffin — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 18:37:13 +0000

In reply to Hoonuu. Yes those Christian missionaries. If they hadn't the Hawaiians could still have human sacrifice. I think the race of people called Kauwa were the original Marquesans that found the islands first, but the Tahitians over threw them and kept them separate. One group taking over another. Sound familiar??? And the new Hawaiians were divided into classes. Not all Ali'i. Makaainana had to fall to the ground when the chiefs came by or otherwise!! Sacrifice!! Damn the missionaries.

By: Myst

Myst — Sat, 15 May 2021 02:24:47 +0000

In reply to Wesley Haleomano-Ahuna. Hawaii is part of the USA, not mainlanders. How discriminating. We don't own the land, it owns us! Retreat and become an independent island/country. Every and I mean every human on this earth comes from a history that includes oppression of some sort unfortunately. Move forward or shut it!

By: Peter Kay

Peter Kay — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 04:32:33 +0000

In reply to Peter kinahan. Thank you Peter for your contribution - your story has been echoed by many, sadly.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:57:56 +0000

In reply to Audrey. Stop feeding the hate you moron.As a local, I've lived here all my life.It's people like you that mess Hawaii up. It's people like you, that's turning this place into a shithole. Knock it off.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:53:07 +0000

Written by an ignorant person. Yes, most people don’t like stupid. Most people don’t. Yes, we use racial slurs, who doesn’t. If you don’t like it, don’t come. We don’t need any more liberals here mucking up our island home. You’ve done so much damage here. We are culturally diverse and yes you need a thick skin to live here. If you don’t you need to find a different place to live.

There’s a local sayiing don’t mess with the ‘aina, or don’t mess with the land. You mainlanders want to make us just like yourselves. Stop, just stop,.

By: Peter kinahan

Peter kinahan — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:16:45 +0000

we wanted to do a substantial investment in Hawaii helping in transportation, homeless affordable housing, and pollution. The main obstacle was that politicians were greedy and had their own agenda (that did not work) and were constantly fighting their rivals and opponents.. Rather than helping their constituents they were involved in battles with rivals and boycotting any initiative. My great friend’s late wife was in love with Hawaii. She passed away 11 years ago and he wanted to invest because he felt connected because of the love for his wife, His wife would have disliked what we witnessed and our experts saw: more than 10,000 people homeless, 70,000 short of socially affordable housing, pollution of the island and the plastic in the ocean, dirty beaches, lack of environmentally clean and affordable transportation. lack of local agriculture and lack of less expensive produce, he felt that within 5 years Hawaii could be energy independent (avoid the 3 Billion a year import of oil) en social housing could be solved without it costing anything to society. Now that tourism is gone it will become worse. The politicians could not care less. it seems to be a normal routine and it appears that the spirit of aloha is gone end that even who self proclaim to care about Hawaii, its environment and issues react in what we would call negative passive manner. Why should they do something about it?My friend invested a lot of time in it and lost a lot of money but also some reputation in it.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 07:37:49 +0000

In reply to Kealohi. Kingdoms are meant to fall duhh get on with the times

By: The Chad

The Chad — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:16:30 +0000

I’ve been living here all my life but i haven’t had any problems (im a white local)

By: Friedrich Kass

Friedrich Kass — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:00:17 +0000

In reply to Kealohi. Hawaii has changed in the last decades so much, life and everything isnt as Beautiful as people may think! It was a sunshine state once, but now there are so many poor and homeless people here in Honolulu and elshewere in Hawaii. I dont really know what is going on here?

By: Kapena Kaipo

Kapena Kaipo — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:54:16 +0000

In reply to person. The overthrow of Queen liliuokalani was so long ago get over ! The only reason you have a bad attitude is because you hate white people plain and simple. Local haole lived here all my life on Kauai 50 yrs. Hawaiians is okay. Japanese Filipinos and Portuguese act like they're Hawaiian and their shit doesn't stink fuck these guys

By: Kealohi

Kealohi — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 23:47:28 +0000

In reply to person. true that

By: person

person — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:39:09 +0000

you guys illeglally overthrew our queen so that why we’re mean to you guys DUH

By: person

person — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:37:57 +0000

i dont see why some of these are problems

By: Audrey

Audrey — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:50:47 +0000

In reply to Hoonuu.

SRB427’s wife here, I can’t blame you at all about your anger from what people of power had done to your culture. Hawaii was always a place I admired and want to visit. You know the story with native Americans in our Mainland. The settlers from Europe around 300 yrs. ago did the same damage to this country. Took away the native American way of life. I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, moved to upstate New York years ago. Okay this is my homeland, but I do enjoy traveling this planet. Planet Earth is our home for everyone. Wish your original ways of life and the origins of culture from your ancestors never changed. I love travel, not always have money to afford that, but whenever I can and have been around, but never visited Hawaii yet, and still considering, financially permitting. In my heart, believe in visiting nations around the world without imposing on them and respecting the residence and making new friends. The main reasons for the world’s problems are bureaucrats, the power hungry suits and ties, robes and silk, whatever. We little folks vote for leaders to work with them for the common good. But greed gets in the way too often with power hungry morons. I just started learning about Hawaii’s problems, never knew how bad things are there, but still far from bad than Detroit. Many good Detroiters are working to save the city. Please do your part in saving your Hawaii, you probably are and have been, stand your ground. That’s what we are doing against some of Trump’s policies. Our Mainland is a nation for all nations, but we need to maintain the responsibility of not imposing on one another’s cultures, having the freedom of religion, abolishing hate. Yeah, I’m angry too.——Audy

By: Hoonuu

Hoonuu — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 05:42:11 +0000

The only reason we have a bad attitude is because our Kingdom was overthrown illegally by the so called missionaries and banded our culture and language so that we lost our practices,values and language.

By: Raine

Raine — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:30:18 +0000

Hello,
My daughter and I will be moving there in July. I have read some of the posts and I’m sorry some of the Native Hawaiian people don’t want outsiders and suggest we stay where we’re raised. Anyone who grows and wants to expand their horizons, learn about other areas of the world, experience new cultures will move, sorry.
Anyway, I came to Oahu by myself on my birthday about 3 years ago and honestly if my children were with me I would have left all of my belongings where they were and stayed. The people I met were amazing. I will never forget the tour I took, the guide called himself “Uncle Roy” and said we were all “cousin”, so much for the person/s that do not want outsiders. “Uncle Roy” said we were all bound together because we are all human beings, we all bleed red blood so we are all one family, that mentality just stayed with me. I began to look at people I didn’t know, not as strangers, but as “cousins” I just didn’t meet yet, being there for such a short period of time changed me. Not only did my outlook change, but my ears stopped ringing. I have been hearing noises that no one else hears for over 25 years and just being in Hawaii for 4 days, it had stopped. It was funny, I woke up at 3 in the morning, thinking it was 7am and just kept tugging at my ears, I thought something was wrong because it was quiet. I was so used to hear this constant buzzing/humming that when it was gone I thought I was losing my hearing. When I realized it was the ringing that was gone I was beyond happy, as stupid as this may sound, I said to myself “so this is what peace and quiet sounds like, I didn’t remember”. That peace and quiet was short lived, in a day, after I was back in Colorado, the ringing/buzzing/humming was back and louder than ever. I don’t what part of Hawaii we’re going to but we’ll be there soon. I’m selling everything I own, looking for a church, and a humble, safe place for me and my daughter.

By: Wesley Haleomano-Ahuna

Wesley Haleomano-Ahuna — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:56:50 +0000

How dare you post that people should try to move here!! you’re part of the problem!! Why did you move here? us who are born and raised have a hard time because of immigration from the US mainland. We can’t afford our homes, jobs are low paying, high cost of rents to rent to you people made us have to move because you have no problem paying these prices. Thanks for nothing. stay where you are raised and don’t come ruin our lives. we don’t want to move to the mainland but some have to move to crappy places over these to stay alive and have a house.

By: Peter Kay

Peter Kay — Fri, 06 May 2016 02:45:24 +0000

In reply to sophia.

It sure seems that way. I spoke to several social workers who said that some mainland states “help” get their homeless on to planes here with directions on how to get to the nearest public assistance office once they land in Hawaii.

Conversely, I’ve also found stories about Hawaii officials buying 1-way flights back so perhaps it goes both ways.

By: sophia

sophia — Fri, 06 May 2016 01:49:07 +0000

homeless…not to mention the mainland sends homeless here because they won’t survive your winters!

By: DocV

DocV — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:16:06 +0000

In reply to Mr. Julius.

Thank you for your information…im looking into possibly moving there or medical missions, don’t know anyone over there but my heart is heavy in helping people there…God Bless You All…

By: Vern Lovic

Vern Lovic — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:43:36 +0000

In reply to Kristina.

I left windows open and never had a problem. Take your stuff with you – and have someone to watch your bag (someone you bring) when you go in the water. There is no other way. Really the beaches should have locked lockers for people – to make it secure – and have it guarded… that way everyone can go in the water at the same time, not be watching bags / valuables.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:01:26 +0000

Hello! I have a quick question. You said to avoid your windows being smashed / things being stolen. You roll your windows down / take your vauluables in a backpack. If going to the beach or anywhere you had to leave, what would you do with your back pack if you had your wallet and all that in there? And is having a locked glovebox in your vehicle a good idea to stash you vauluables in?
Thank you!

By: Mr. Julius

Mr. Julius — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:33:27 +0000

In reply to heather. hi heather... tons of places to volunteer just go to the aloha united way website to help you connect to different places. just google it. :)

By: Vern

Vern — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:39:48 +0000

In reply to heather.

Great idea… I don’t know of any. Hopefully someone will chime in here…

By: heather

heather — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:09:14 +0000

My husband and I will be going to Hawaii in a couple of weeks for our 5 year anniversary. I’ve been there a couple of times and it is one of my favorite places I’ve ever been to in the world. I thought maybe this time we could kind of give back to the community for allowing us to visit such an amazing place, so I was wondering if anyone knew of a community service project we could help with — something the community could really use help with, like maybe a homeless shelter or an orphanage or school or something. Let me know if you know of anything! Thanks.

Heather

By: Kauaibrad

Kauaibrad — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:26:17 +0000

Kauai has slow traffic through Kapaa when the island is busy.