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Grocery shopping in Hawaii has been proven itself to be more expensive in the islands compared to anywhere else. Your general commodities are more expensive like milk and eggs, and the excise tax in the islands weighs its burden on small middle class families. In addition to these higher prices, the availability of cheaper alternatives is little to none.<\/p>\n

We wrote this post: “Why Hawaii is way more expensive than big mainland cities<\/a>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grocery shopping in Hawaii has been proven itself to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":12711,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2442],"class_list":["post-15423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admin","tag-cost-of-living-hawaii"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy Hawaii is more expensive than the mainland - Living in Hawaii<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Hawaii is more expensive than the mainland - 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