{"id":15410,"date":"2021-06-22T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livinginhawaii.com\/?p=15410"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:10:47","slug":"how-do-islanders-afford-the-high-cost-of-living-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livinginhawaii.com\/admin\/how-do-islanders-afford-the-high-cost-of-living-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"How do islanders afford the high cost of life in Hawaii?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>We created this page &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livinginhawaii.com\/living-in-hawaii\/whats-island-life-like\/afford-cost-of-living-in-hawaii\/\">Top 3 ways Hawaii residents afford the high cost of living<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":12981,"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":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How do islanders afford the high cost of living in Hawaii?","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":[4,2601,1011],"tags":[2442],"class_list":["post-15410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admin","category-cost-of-living","category-moving-to-hawaii","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 do islanders afford the high cost of life in Hawaii? 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