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Originally Posted by AviationGuy
I've seen the run down Honolulu neighborhoods. And my sister lives on the Big Island. There are big areas in the uplands of the Big Island where the back roads are lined with shacks, debris, tents, etc.. Miles and miles of it, all away from the main highways. It's out of sight, out of mind I guess.
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My sister used to live in Hawaii, first in Honolulu "proper," then in Pearl City. She lived there for about 10 years before moving back to California. Anyway, visiting her and doing all the touristy stuff when she first moved there, some time later I spent a few weeks with her later, staying at her house, doing the regular day-to-day things, like errands, grocery shopping, etc. We went through a lot of non-touristy areas, but again, they didn't strike me as particularly poverty-stricken. You did see houses that can qualify as "shack"-looking, but it was more because of the smaller size and the building materials (cinderblock, even corrugated tin roofs); they were modest, obviously lower income, but nothing that seemed out of the ordinary, not like it was a cardboard box with no electricity or running water or anything. Granted, she and her family moved back to California in 2011-ish, so a lot might have changed since then?
Hehe her biggest complaint when she lived there was that they didn't have a lot of the stores she was used to. It seemed EVERYONE shopped at Walmart. When I was helping her put away her kids' toys, I noticed some Container Store bins, and I said "Oh, I didn't know they had Container Store in Hawaii." And she said in a very annoyed voice, "NO, they DON'T have Container Store here in Hawaii." Haha!