{"id":13083,"date":"2019-04-16T06:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livinginhawaii.com\/?p=13083"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:10:48","slug":"how-on-earth-can-you-afford-living-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livinginhawaii.com\/hawaii\/moving-to-hawaii\/how-on-earth-can-you-afford-living-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"How on earth can you afford living in Hawaii?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most people vacationing in Hawaii, all it takes is one trip to the grocery store or a quick scan of the real estate classifieds to get hit with extreme sticker shock.\u00a0 Yes, not only is it super expensive to live here, but most jobs pay significantly less than their mainland counterparts.\u00a0 So the inevitable question arises: <a href=\"\/living-in-hawaii\/whats-island-life-like\/afford-cost-of-living-in-hawaii\/\">how do you folks do it<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Our local girl Aina was born and raised here and took many of these things for granted.\u00a0 Now she shares them with you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-aligncenter\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"\/living-in-hawaii\/whats-island-life-like\/afford-cost-of-living-in-hawaii\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Read: &#8220;Top 3 ways Hawaii residents afford the high cost of living&#8221; now<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most people vacationing in Hawaii, all it takes is  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":12987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2601,1011,2390],"tags":[2442],"class_list":["post-13083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cost-of-living","category-moving-to-hawaii","category-newsletter","tag-cost-of-living-hawaii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How on earth can you afford living in Hawaii? 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