A lot of people move here, and then spend a lot of time complaining about Hawaiʻ i. Now people are doing that and then posting lists of the complaints on various websites. So, not to be behind-hand, here is my own list of ten frustrating things about living in Hawaiʻ i:
- People in the contiguous states believing the websites, not you, when you tell them shipping times.
- All the businesses which will not ship to Hawaiʻ i.
- Getting 3 a.m. telemarketing calls from the East Coast of North America.
- Welcoming a new neighbor who has just moved here from a city, listening to them talk about how they love Hawaiʻ i and then watching them bulldoze and pave over everything Hawaiian in their new home.
- Regulations imposed by legislators in DC which do not take into account the fact that we are tropical islands, not contiguous continent.
- Listening to some of your friends/ʻ ohana grumble about “haoles ruining da ʻ āina” while they spray Roundup or used motor oil on practically everything in sight.
- The cultural disenfranchisement of so many of our ʻʻ ohana, which leads to crime.
- People who call every ʻ ili mākuʻ e person “local” whether they are from here or not, and thinking every ʻ ilikea person, from here or not, is “haole.”
- Airfare.
- Airports.