>Met a guy at a wedding this summer, he flew in with his
>family from Hawaii. He quit a well-paying software job in
>Michigan to go grow coffee beans (and a little bit of pot) in
>Hawaii. He had to borrow a tie for the wedding because he
>didn't own one.
>
>That guy pretty much fucked up my life for a good month. "Why
>am I not growing coffee beans on a Hawaiian island? Why do I
>own multiple ties, instead of multiple jet skis? Why am I
>paying more in rent than that guy spends on his mortgage?"

Everything has to be imported onto the island basically.
School options for kids arent great. I mean I guess you can send them to Private school, but in Hawaii there's also a very strange/strained dynamic between locals and "expats" or non-locals.

Lots of Asian diversity but not a huge population of black folks.