{"id":15427,"date":"2021-06-22T17:42:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T03:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livinginhawaii.com\/?p=15427"},"modified":"2025-02-18T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:14:49","slug":"how-much-money-is-enough-to-live-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livinginhawaii.com\/admin\/how-much-money-is-enough-to-live-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Money Is Enough to live in Hawaii?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is about how much money is enough to move to and live in Hawaii, updated for 2021. Could a single person make it by bringing $3,000 in a bank account? If you arrived in Hawaii and made $20,000 per year with your job, could you live like that?In general things cost a lot more in Hawaii than they do on the mainland. Shipping food over the ocean in boats (or planes) is one reason for this, but another is that grocers have to maintain huge stocks of food in warehouses to keep food on the shelves all the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livinginhawaii.com\/how-much-money-is-enough\/\">How Much Money Is Enough to live in Hawaii<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is about how much money is enough to  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":6387,"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-15427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admin","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 Much Money Is Enough to live in Hawaii? 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