Ich lebe in Kauai und poste dies, um zu sehen, was andere darüber denken. Ich habe auf Maui gelebt, als die Brände ausbrachen und die Pandemie durchlebten. Ich habe dort zwischen 2016 und 2023 einen dramatischen Wandel erlebt. Viele Einheimische wurden aggressiv und unhöflich gegenüber Touristen, so dass die Gesamtzahl auch zwei Jahre später aufgrund viraler Videos in den sozialen Medien, in denen Erfahrungen geteilt wurden, immer noch rückläufig war.
Kauai ist in den letzten Jahren sehr gespalten, da der Zustrom wohlhabender Menschen hierher zieht und die Kosten für alles in die Höhe treibt, während die Löhne nahezu gleich bleiben. Überall herrscht Personalmangel und die meiste Zeit ist es überbucht. Um einen PCP-Termin zu bekommen, ist eine Wartezeit von einigen Monaten erforderlich.
Ich habe im Moment freien Wohnraum und spare gerade Geld, während ich überlege, ob ich Kauai während meiner Reise als Heimatbasis behalten möchte oder ob ich einfach ganz weggehe und zurückkomme, wenn ich es wirklich vermisse.
https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-middle-class-visitors-declining-21204477.php?
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I live on Kauai and I’m posting this to see how others feel about this. I was living on Maui when the fires happened and through the pandemic. I saw a dramatic shift happen between 2016 and 2023 there. Many locals were becoming aggressive and rude towards tourists, to the point where the overall numbers are still down 2 years later due to viral videos on social media sharing experiences.
Kauai has gotten very divided in recent years due to the influx of wealthy people moving here driving the cost of everything up while the wages have stayed close to the same. Everywhere is short staffed and most of the time over booked. Getting a PCP appointment requires a few month wait period.
I have free housing right now and am currently just saving money while I figure out if I want to keep Kauai as a Homebase while I travel or do I just leave altogether and come back when I really miss it.
My cousin and her husband went around 2019, and they stayed about a week. They told me for just the two of them, to really have a true Hawaii experience and actually visit the islands, take it all in, cost them about $10,000. My jaw about dropped, but thinking about it with flights, lodging, food, excursions, it made sense.
I can’t see a couple being able to do that for less than $12,500 or more now.
You can swap out Hawaii for Disneyworld or ski towns.
Yeah, don’t forget to throw in $800+ airplane tickets, which become $2000 tickets during school break.
Inflation is up and the middle class isn’t going to spend like it use to as cost of living is up. Only people that are, are people that are willing to go into debt or are what many would consider wealthy.
I’m glad I got to see Hawaii in the mid-2000’s before the beaches were littered (literally) with used meth pipes. My wife had a conference to attend there in 2023 and the difference was night and day. The locals really don’t want tourists there anyway, so stop traveling to Hawaii. Seriously. It’s that easy.
Honestly, that’s not horrible?
Like I’d guess hotels run $150-$200, meals probably $60-$80. That doesn’t seem super unreasonable to me.
Now we haven’t talked airfare or other transportation yet.
I loved on Oahu from ’85 to ’95, and i haven’t been back since. Zero interest in it. It was expensive to live there 40 years ago, and i got really sick to death if being called ‚tourist “ and „haole“ everywhere i went.
It was not a place that was welcoming or friendly, just a superficial veneer of tolerance from people working in tourism jobs. Go to a grocery store or Costco and you had to have a thick skin.