If I'm buying an island, I'm also buying the government.

Also worth noting is that politically, they might be even more anti development than the Californians you’re used to. 

Undisciplined

charts_and_numbers

International Housing Affordability, eleven markets "impossibly unaffordable"

k00b

A friend of mine grew up on the big island, and explained how things like furniture is twice as expensive so many homes are sold furnished.

Maybe when we get autonomous ships and planes, I can have my Shenzhen-like Hawaiian island.

> Hawaii is actually used for a lot of ag research. Because of the long growing year, they can do several harvests per year rather than just one, which speeds up field trial work.

I didn't know that. It makes me think of @ov1_kenobi who had a community farm there.