I don't live there but some friends do and they report that they love it and are thriving, so your comment is inaccurate and this is just another clickbait video.
Well I live here also. B I has hardly any Beaches and the majority of the people are Snow Birds or Retirees. But we still need more Tech Jobs. And Just Jobs.!! Housing is about half as much $. And we have the Wettest City in the United States.
@@gersonhay984 the NE windward side including Hilo is very wet, because the adiabatic cooling wrings the water out of moist trade winds where those are forced up and over 13,000+ feet Mauna Kea, dormant volcano. The west leeward slopes are quite dry and because adiabatic drying occurs as trade winds flow down the mountain slopes, the air is compressed and heated making the relative humidity much lower. In those 13 western US states those hot dry winds are called Chinook and Diablo.
Why no specifics? Pearl Harbor is a rare, amazing harbor. That makes it the trade hub. With the addition of the military base and government jobs, it is natural the international airport is there. Transportation is the cornerstone of wealth generation.
My dad's family is all on the Big Island. Most locals don't want more people to move there. The traffic(which didn't exist when I was a kid visiting there) is ridiculous and so is the trashing of what was once an absolute paradise. All for the almighty dollar which hardly makes it into the hands of longtime locals! That goes for most of the other islands too.
Hilo’s not very big by mainland standards, whereas if you go to Oahu there’s more sprawl and cities running together. Even Kauai feels more crowded after the BI. You drive out of Hilo in a few minutes and you’re in the country, not a continuous build up of towns.
I live on the Big Island, moved from Oahu in 1991. A big factor is the lack of good paying jobs, so my husband and I flew (commuted) to Oahu for over 20 years to be able to live on the BI. That was when it was more affordable. Loved Aloha Airlines..now that is a wonderful Local airline.
i went to the big island for a couple months and couldnt believe how sparsely populated it is. Found that very shocking. For a long distance hiker it was amazing, hardly saw a soul between each town, more like Village.
@@Squid-t2v me too, 2 months. Much of south part is Hawaii:I Volcanoes Nat'l Park, protected from real estate developers, due to higher risk of future lava flows burning everything down. Both tall mnts are uninhabitable above 9000 feet. In winter 1980 astronomers were snowbound on Mauna Kea. Few minutes after falling asleep, their brains awaked them when blood oxygen levels dropped to dangerously low concentrations. Within days snowplow drivers rescued them from 13,000 feet high observatories. 1 huge ranch and US military dominated the saddle region near hwy 200.
I may have missed it, but it's important to mention that the main campus of the University of Hawaii is also on the island of Oahu and thus is a major source of employment and draws an international student and faculty population.
This guy is wrong! I live on the Big Island and Born on the island of Oahu, but live on the Big island for 40 years.. The Big island has a population of 200,000 people double in the 30 + years.. Life is slower here compare to Oahu and Maui! Still have the lower home prices compare to all the other islands..not many high paying jobs…
None of the other islands have Oahu’s excellent natural ports (Pearl Harbor, Ala Moana, and Kaneohe Bay), which gives it a tremendous advantage. The Big Island has no such bays. Its coastline is very geologically immature so it would be a massive undertaking to build out infrastructure there.
Curious that you completely failed to mention Puuwai in this video. Also, Molokai has a small population because that island is considered a "safe haven" for the native population and has discouraged tourism.
Alot of us live here but believe what you want, people who don't live or ever visited here think we still live in grass shacks, i still never seen a grass shack home myself and i lived here all my life.
Agriculture used to even out the populations. Sugar and pineapple plantations existed long before tourism and employed lots of people on the outer islands, especially the "Big Island" of Hawaii. Competition from the Philippines and Central America killed those industries. Many decedents of those workers moved to Oahu for work. Not judging if it was a good or bad thing, just a big factor not mentioned in the video.
Yes, many things that are pertinent were not mentioned, and many inaccuracies and exclusions as well. Nothing like the experience of being there on the ground to know the real truths of this amazing place.
Hawaii need exemptions from the Feds to bring down the cost of living! There are 8 military bases on Oahu, Hawaii is very valuable stategically to America but sorely under appreciated. Help us out!!!
@@GNMi79 From the shipping cost of goods and product from the mainland to the islands! We pay up to 3 times as much for stuff compared to people living on the mainland!
Born and raised on Oahu, Kahaluu area, me and my friends miss the “old” hawaii pre 2012 before the internet advertised the place even more. Now everyone knows my hiking trails, and our city and county love it. F them!! They are selling property like it’s dope, and letting “free” market supply and demand dynamics price out the locals. That way they can just say it’s no ones fault, it’s just basic supply and demand… which makes them look college-educated also! Most of my friends and people from high school had to leave the islands to find jobs and afford rent, with or without college. Oahu has now become a place for retired boomers and wealthier foreigners from Asia. Less and less locals and the culture has become more and more hustle+money. This place will soon be more compareable to Singapore, Dubai, or LA. Living on Oahu is now a way to say “I’m rich enough”. Living on outer islands such as Big Island is a way to avoid Oahu’s hustle and money culture, and actually feel like you are in Hawaii.
Kahoolawe is uninhabitable because not only is it littered with bombs they destroyed the water table you’d have to ship in fresh water from another island or build a desalination plant.
Travel is expensive all over the US. I live in South Jersey, but my company office is in Manhattan. It costs about $75 to use public transportation to travel between South Jersey and Manhattan. Thank God I work from home!! Thank you, Jesus 🙏🏼
Bad try. Plenty of humans live on Big Islands . Only small % of land has been covered by new lava flows since 1800. Plenty of oxisols soils available for sugar cane.
You fail to grasp that they have so much money they don’t have to care about losing a few properties to coastal erosion. Multimillion dollar homes are always falling into the world’s oceans every year. The elites don’t think like you because they can afford not to. Get it now, Brian trust?
The charges of bias are real, but from the perspective of western civilization this is fair. There is the same situation in Indonesia where more than half of everyone lives on the island of Java, the most populated island in the world. When it comes to trade it's hard to get wealthy trading only coconuts. It causes people to gather to build industry. On the other hand, the Big Island is capable of so much more, but trade hasn't been kind to the island. Sugar was not competitive, but there was no problem growing sugar. I hear much of beef and milk get exported from the island, and costs are incredible even though the island is quite productive here. Unfortunately, the major hub, Hilo, despite being a beautiful city, has had to deal with heavy rains, volcanoes, and tsunamis. I'm sure the native islanders could give a more complete details if they wanted. I only lived there two years. It is a beautiful land with beautiful people.
Hawaiians aren't "indigenous". They're ocean-going migrants. There was another race of people present when those particular Polynesians arrived but they wiped them out. Hawaiian lore speaks of them.
@@southpondYes they are. What can one mention about Kona? It saw a lot of development due to tourism. A lot of it has remained rural. Some areas have farms some is lava drylands or forest. But the economic situation is the same as the rest of the other islands, where tourism is a big factor in jobs, costs, and housing.
Oahu is the "city". The other islands are the "country". Like anywhere else in the world if you are not a farmer you have to live on Oahu if you want to find work.
You do understand that he's not Hawaiian, don't you? Expecting an American to pronounce Hawaiian words with a Hawaiian accent, is about as big an exercise in futility, as trying to take down a bull elephant, while in musth, with a spitball.
Let's see. Oah'u has just 1 million, so there are 13 million people left. But no one lives on the other islands? Clearly you have NOT been to those islands. I have. The big island is pretty ope but a lot of people live there.
Rising see levels is not a factor as yet for populations on the Big Island. It’s economics. Jobs etc. Also people don’t realize the BI is mostly mountainous. People could live up in the interior if they wanted to build roads and put up with steep rough terrain, rain, fog, and cold. As it is there is a saddle road that goes through the mountains and no one has developed up there to live. There is village near Volcano that has grown but little over the last century. No work (except for the case of the national park) and not nice to live there. Then there is the volcanoes that have destroyed whole communities. It is not impossible at all. You need to find a job, and you need to pay high land prices and rents (like all Hawaii).
@@1dash133Yeah. This isn’t that big an area, and you’d have few people going there as it is so remote. The leprosy patients are dwindling as it is now treatable. People can visit with permission.
BS. Hardly empty. We lived 30 years on the Big Island. It became vastly overpopulated for us. An ant hill. This is misleading. We now reside in the New Mexican desert.
ferry transportation ended up being more expensive in the long run. there was a company that tried it. the ocean between the islands is very rough so the boats had to be built for it. the amount of people transported across wasn’t nearly as many as flying can transport. a lot of people got sea sick. the cars on the ferries can bring invasive species from one island to another. there’s big whale populations between some islands that the boats would have to avoid. the trip by boat also takes multiple hours compared to not even an hour by flight. overall it was a good idea prevented by nature and inefficiency
The Hawaii Superferry was launched in 2007. It could carry passengers and also had roll-on roll-off ability for vehicles. However, it went bankrupt in 2009 because the environmentalists killed it with lawsuits.
Imagining the islands are connected with bridges and highways: Big Highways from big island to Kauai (with big stopping areas, looking out to ocean, and dining shops and restaurents) that would be really something. You only need big highways connecting islands to islands ( four islands actually)
Only a small factor. Fewer people live on the Big Island because there are fewer jobs and cost of living is great like all the islands. Many developments for tourists though, which is where a lot of jobs come from. I lived there. While some areas did get wiped out by volcanoes that is a small impact on development compared to other factors. Very costly to develop there-imagine everything has to be shipped in, including developing water supplies. You can’t compare to development on the Mainland. The geography and geology is unique.
I live on the Big Island (Hawaii Island) The information provided in this video is not exactly true.
Many biased comments.
Good try, but you failed.
I don't live there but some friends do and they report that they love it and are thriving, so your comment is inaccurate and this is just another clickbait video.
Please be specific about what you consider to be untrue or biased. Otherwise, your comment itself seems biased.
Well I live here also. B I has hardly any Beaches and the majority of the people are Snow Birds or Retirees. But we still need more Tech Jobs. And Just Jobs.!! Housing is about half as much $. And we have the Wettest City in the United States.
It’s less than 10 minutes. So of course it’s gonna be very general and vague on many details.
@@gersonhay984 the NE windward side including Hilo is very wet, because the adiabatic cooling wrings the water out of moist trade winds where those are forced up and over 13,000+ feet Mauna Kea, dormant volcano. The west leeward slopes are quite dry and because adiabatic drying occurs as trade winds flow down the mountain slopes, the air is compressed and heated making the relative humidity much lower. In those 13 western US states those hot dry winds are called Chinook and Diablo.
Aloha from a person who lives on da Big Island. This video is comically full of misinformation🤙🏼
How so?
Examples? I want to learn.
@@peacecraft3449 too much to enumerate.
@bristleconepinus2378 Yeah I'm seeing people say that yet no one is giving a single answer.....
Why no specifics? Pearl Harbor is a rare, amazing harbor. That makes it the trade hub. With the addition of the military base and government jobs, it is natural the international airport is there.
Transportation is the cornerstone of wealth generation.
My dad's family is all on the Big Island. Most locals don't want more people to move there. The traffic(which didn't exist when I was a kid visiting there) is ridiculous and so is the trashing of what was once an absolute paradise. All for the almighty dollar which hardly makes it into the hands of longtime locals! That goes for most of the other islands too.
Hawaii's 2nd largest city is on the big island, Look up Hilo
He’s talking about population sizes of the respective islands.
Hilo’s not very big by mainland standards, whereas if you go to Oahu there’s more sprawl and cities running together. Even Kauai feels more crowded after the BI. You drive out of Hilo in a few minutes and you’re in the country, not a continuous build up of towns.
@@pcatful Yes, we live among villages not cities here on the Big Island.
If you want city life, then live on Oahu. Leave the other islands alone.
It’s funny that other islands thinks Oahu is all city 😂. We got the best of both worlds, city & country.
Climate change 🙄😂
If you want city life move to New York City!
I live on the Big Island, moved from Oahu in 1991. A big factor is the lack of good paying jobs, so my husband and I flew (commuted) to Oahu for over 20 years to be able to live on the BI. That was when it was more affordable. Loved Aloha Airlines..now that is a wonderful Local airline.
I remember the $25 island hopper fares on Aloha. Ah, those were the days...
Great video!
i went to the big island for a couple months and couldnt believe how sparsely populated it is. Found that very shocking. For a long distance hiker it was amazing, hardly saw a soul between each town, more like Village.
@@Squid-t2v me too, 2 months. Much of south part is Hawaii:I Volcanoes Nat'l Park, protected from real estate developers, due to higher risk of future lava flows burning everything down. Both tall mnts are uninhabitable above 9000 feet. In winter 1980 astronomers were snowbound on Mauna Kea. Few minutes after falling asleep, their brains awaked them when blood oxygen levels dropped to dangerously low concentrations. Within days snowplow drivers rescued them from 13,000 feet high observatories. 1 huge ranch and US military dominated the saddle region near hwy 200.
I may have missed it, but it's important to mention that the main campus of the University of Hawaii is also on the island of Oahu and thus is a major source of employment and draws an international student and faculty population.
@@elainemarie3013 been there, done that.
Why are you showing pictures of Kauai when taking about Maui?
Talking about Maui and showing Kauai
Well done video.
This guy is wrong!
I live on the Big Island and Born on the island of Oahu, but live on the Big island for 40 years..
The Big island has a population of 200,000 people double in the 30 + years..
Life is slower here compare to Oahu and Maui!
Still have the lower home prices compare to all the other islands..not many high paying jobs…
None of the other islands have Oahu’s excellent natural ports (Pearl Harbor, Ala Moana, and Kaneohe Bay), which gives it a tremendous advantage. The Big Island has no such bays. Its coastline is very geologically immature so it would be a massive undertaking to build out infrastructure there.
Hawaii is incredible! It doesn't need any more development.
I live on the Big Island and love it here.
Curious that you completely failed to mention Puuwai in this video. Also, Molokai has a small population because that island is considered a "safe haven" for the native population and has discouraged tourism.
Alot of us live here but believe what you want, people who don't live or ever visited here think we still live in grass shacks, i still never seen a grass shack home myself and i lived here all my life.
This is so true!
This is an accurate assessment as to why the population is concentrated on Oahu.
Agriculture used to even out the populations. Sugar and pineapple plantations existed long before tourism and employed lots of people on the outer islands, especially the "Big Island" of Hawaii. Competition from the Philippines and Central America killed those industries. Many decedents of those workers moved to Oahu for work. Not judging if it was a good or bad thing, just a big factor not mentioned in the video.
Yes, many things that are pertinent were not mentioned, and many inaccuracies and exclusions as well. Nothing like the experience of being there on the ground to know the real truths of this amazing place.
Another Hawaii video by someone who probably has never spent much time here and probably doesn't know anybody who is Hawaiian
Hawaii need exemptions from the Feds to bring down the cost of living! There are 8 military bases on Oahu, Hawaii is very valuable stategically to America but sorely under appreciated. Help us out!!!
@@GNMi79 From the shipping cost of goods and product from the mainland to the islands! We pay up to 3 times as much for stuff compared to people living on the mainland!
Born and raised on Oahu, Kahaluu area, me and my friends miss the “old” hawaii pre 2012 before the internet advertised the place even more. Now everyone knows my hiking trails, and our city and county love it. F them!! They are selling property like it’s dope, and letting “free” market supply and demand dynamics price out the locals. That way they can just say it’s no ones fault, it’s just basic supply and demand… which makes them look college-educated also! Most of my friends and people from high school had to leave the islands to find jobs and afford rent, with or without college. Oahu has now become a place for retired boomers and wealthier foreigners from Asia. Less and less locals and the culture has become more and more hustle+money. This place will soon be more compareable to Singapore, Dubai, or LA. Living on Oahu is now a way to say “I’m rich enough”. Living on outer islands such as Big Island is a way to avoid Oahu’s hustle and money culture, and actually feel like you are in Hawaii.
Kahoolawe is uninhabitable because not only is it littered with bombs they destroyed the water table you’d have to ship in fresh water from another island or build a desalination plant.
Yup. But desalination isn’t viable because of the brine waste it creates.
Wrong.
@ please explain I won’t be lectured by a haole on basic info
Hey narrator we do not want urban developement of any kind. It has ruined the islands
Travel is expensive all over the US.
I live in South Jersey, but my company office is in Manhattan. It costs about $75 to use public transportation to travel between South Jersey and Manhattan. Thank God I work from home!! Thank you, Jesus 🙏🏼
"rising sea levels"...is that why the elites constantly buy ocean front properties? Because of rising sea levels? 🤣🤣🤣
Bad try. Plenty of humans live on Big Islands . Only small % of land has been covered by new lava flows since 1800. Plenty of oxisols soils available for sugar cane.
You fail to grasp that they have so much money they don’t have to care about losing a few properties to coastal erosion. Multimillion dollar homes are always falling into the world’s oceans every year. The elites don’t think like you because they can afford not to. Get it now, Brian trust?
@@ronrenkoski8721 Except that no one knows exactly where the next lava flows will go or how big they’ll get. The risk factor alone is inhibiting.
@@crazyhawaiidrivers4310 Bingo
@@shacktime and controlling water levels is something you have never researched yet speak like u have … shoots I’m I talking to a. Bot
The charges of bias are real, but from the perspective of western civilization this is fair. There is the same situation in Indonesia where more than half of everyone lives on the island of Java, the most populated island in the world. When it comes to trade it's hard to get wealthy trading only coconuts. It causes people to gather to build industry. On the other hand, the Big Island is capable of so much more, but trade hasn't been kind to the island. Sugar was not competitive, but there was no problem growing sugar. I hear much of beef and milk get exported from the island, and costs are incredible even though the island is quite productive here. Unfortunately, the major hub, Hilo, despite being a beautiful city, has had to deal with heavy rains, volcanoes, and tsunamis.
I'm sure the native islanders could give a more complete details if they wanted. I only lived there two years. It is a beautiful land with beautiful people.
Mucho Gracias
Hawaiians aren't "indigenous". They're ocean-going migrants. There was another race of people present when those particular Polynesians arrived but they wiped them out. Hawaiian lore speaks of them.
Nothing about Kona. I've heard it's a fascinating if volcanic isle & I've seen the lava flows in documentaries. And there's the coffee...
Are you referring to the Kona section of the Big Island???
@@southpondYes they are. What can one mention about Kona? It saw a lot of development due to tourism. A lot of it has remained rural. Some areas have farms some is lava drylands or forest. But the economic situation is the same as the rest of the other islands, where tourism is a big factor in jobs, costs, and housing.
Oahu is the "city". The other islands are the "country". Like anywhere else in the world if you are not a farmer you have to live on Oahu if you want to find work.
It’s O’ahu, not “owahoo” and it’s Honolulu, not hanalulu ❤ mahalo!
You do understand that he's not Hawaiian, don't you? Expecting an American to pronounce Hawaiian words with a Hawaiian accent, is about as big an exercise in futility, as trying to take down a bull elephant, while in musth, with a spitball.
@ of course I do, that’s why I’m helping him
@@dawnatchison 👍
Let's see. Oah'u has just 1 million, so there are 13 million people left. But no one lives on the other islands? Clearly you have NOT been to those islands. I have. The big island is pretty ope but a lot of people live there.
The total population is 1.3 million, not 13 million.
You need to rewatch the video and pay attention this time.
Rising see levels is not a factor as yet for populations on the Big Island. It’s economics. Jobs etc. Also people don’t realize the BI is mostly mountainous. People could live up in the interior if they wanted to build roads and put up with steep rough terrain, rain, fog, and cold. As it is there is a saddle road that goes through the mountains and no one has developed up there to live. There is village near Volcano that has grown but little over the last century. No work (except for the case of the national park) and not nice to live there. Then there is the volcanoes that have destroyed whole communities. It is not impossible at all. You need to find a job, and you need to pay high land prices and rents (like all Hawaii).
Volcano Village is a wonderful place to live.
50 years on the Big Island. Misinformation, faulty conclusions and assumptions are the main features of this video.
Also there's a leprosy island you can't visit.
Kalaupapapa isn't an island.
@@1dash133Yeah. This isn’t that big an area, and you’d have few people going there as it is so remote. The leprosy patients are dwindling as it is now treatable. People can visit with permission.
The w in Kahoolawe is pronounced as a v.
Cause the last one was completely corrupt and run by a single family monopoly
BS. Hardly empty. We lived 30 years on the Big Island. It became vastly overpopulated for us. An ant hill. This is misleading. We now reside in the New Mexican desert.
Why not build a ferry network between the islands that could cut the cost of transportation between islands?
ferry transportation ended up being more expensive in the long run. there was a company that tried it. the ocean between the islands is very rough so the boats had to be built for it. the amount of people transported across wasn’t nearly as many as flying can transport. a lot of people got sea sick. the cars on the ferries can bring invasive species from one island to another. there’s big whale populations between some islands that the boats would have to avoid. the trip by boat also takes multiple hours compared to not even an hour by flight. overall it was a good idea prevented by nature and inefficiency
They've floated the idea and tried. A combination of environmental concerns and low use case killed it
Reallifelore does a video on that. Too much risk of spreading insect and other pests. It's also too far between and there are some nasty currents.
The Hawaii Superferry was launched in 2007. It could carry passengers and also had roll-on roll-off ability for vehicles. However, it went bankrupt in 2009 because the environmentalists killed it with lawsuits.
@@crazyhawaiidrivers4310 The environmentalists were the front. I lived in Hawaii for 30+ years. I am well aware of what's going on.
I thought it was about drinking water.
While not critical. Water supply is a factor due to the unique geology.
Imagining the islands are connected with bridges and highways: Big Highways from big island to Kauai (with big stopping areas, looking out to ocean, and dining shops and restaurents) that would be really something. You only need big highways connecting islands to islands ( four islands actually)
That would be pretty amazing engineering-wise. This is the open sea, not continental shelf or a bay.
This was a great video until he started proselytizing about global warming.
You need to do better research malahini😂😂😂😂😂
Hi: w in Hawaiian is pronounced as v ……..Kaho ‘olawe………MAHALOS 🤙🏽
*Nobody* lives there? Nobody. Buy a dictionary
Climate change 🙄 keep telling yourselves that! You are the ones that give thanks to the universe 😂
Believe this if you want stay away.
I live on the big island in my paid for home off the grid for free.
You need to do more homework 😮
Trump is like the big Island economically
Obviously it's because of the volcano
that's the gorilla in the room.
Only a small factor. Fewer people live on the Big Island because there are fewer jobs and cost of living is great like all the islands. Many developments for tourists though, which is where a lot of jobs come from. I lived there. While some areas did get wiped out by volcanoes that is a small impact on development compared to other factors. Very costly to develop there-imagine everything has to be shipped in, including developing water supplies. You can’t compare to development on the Mainland. The geography and geology is unique.
Don't move to Hawaii