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Urban Honolulu, HI
re: Before you move here consider this:
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7/17/2021I have to agree with this guy. I lived in Honolulu for 12 years and on the Big island for 2 years. Im a mainland haole, as we are referred to and thats the most polite thing you will hear. Usually you are that dumb f-----g haole or even worse.
I started a landscaping business there in 1976 with 4 employees, ended up with 105 employees 12 years later when I sold the business and moved back to the continental US. As I was the only caucasian with a business that size doing landscaping and landscape maintenance, it was impossible to bid on any government contracts Those are very profitable and haoles need not apply. So I did only large condominium projects of which there are many on Oahu. The word often came back to me in backhanded compliments such as" we know he;s a god d----d haole, but his guys show up on time and they do a good job". That was high praise.
In 1977, I had bought a 1975 Porsche 911 for a personal car. I drove a Toyota pickup all week for work, never drove the 911 for business. On a Saturday, I was going up the freeway to Mililani to see some friends. A local lady friend had told me that the local cops would harass me driving a Porsche so she told me to be very careful and also gave me a SHOPO (state of Hawaii police officers assn) sticker to put on the back bumper thinking it would keep me out of trouble As I drove along, I noticed a black coupe coming up behind me with blue lights flashing in the grill. The driver motioned me to pull over which I did. When I asked what was the problem, he asked me where I got the SHOPO sticker. I refused to tell him. When He asked for my license, I asked to see his badge, He claimed he didnt have it with him so I refused to show him my license and got back in my car, He asked me to follow him to the nearest police station in Wahiawa where he would prove his identity. I told him to forget it and left. At the time I lived in Honolulu, where I had 2 underground parking spaces. The Porsche was equiped with the latest (at that time) anti theft device. When I came down on the following Monday morning to drive my Toyota to work, my Porsche was gone. It was found 2 weeks later in the Kailua dump on the Windward side totally stripped.. I couldnt prove it but I knew who had the knowhow and ability to steal that car.
Unfortunately for them, in the 2 years I had Had the car, it had gone up in value , so when the insurance paid me off, I had enough to buy a 1976 911 which was even nicer.
When you live in Hawaii as a Caucasian, you learn to see what racial discrimination looks like first hand, close up , every day. It doesnt matter how polite or how unaggressive you try to act, you are marked by your skin color and you are hated by some, detested by most and put up with by almost all locals. And its not like we are talking about some really outstanding people here. Most are uneducated and resentful. They have a "kill a haole" day in the local schools which are the breeding grounds for all of the hatred for caucasians along with what the kids are taught at home by their parents.
Very few locals have any sense of patriotism towards their own country,the USA, some even preferring to regard Japan as their real home country.Young military guys ,alone, are frequent targets of beatings by gangs of young locals who rarely attack one on one, preferring the safety of the many against the few.
I could go on and on but you get the idea.I hated Hawaii after 12 years and sold my business just to get out. I met a lot of nice people there but that couldnt makeup for the terrible racism and anti American sentiment I found there. And now its a lot worse so I thank God I got out.............Bruce in AZ