I Ventured Into The Shocking Ghettos Of Hawaii
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- This doesn't look like Hawaii. It looks like somewhere in the third world.
In this video, I explore the poor and dangerous neighborhoods on Oahu. #hawaii #realestate
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I think many watch your videos because they can identify with and understand the lower income areas more than the fancy, expensive places. yeah, it's nice to see beautiful, expensive neighborhoods. But that feels out of reach for many. The "run down" places just seem more real.
You don't know what a Quonset hut is? Anyway it is a legacy of the military. You won't find upscale homes around military installations.
@@csr2120 Nick's a Millennial who wasn't around when _Gomer Pyle, USMC_ was on air.
I can't handle the islands and Honolulu OAHU IS NOT THE BIGGEST OR LARGEST ISLAND ITS THE BIG ISLAND HAWAII,🎉HAWAII..GO BAC WHERE U CAME FROM AND TAKE YOUR FRIENDS WITH U PLEASE,HAWAII IS FOR HAWAIIANS NOT MAINLANDERS
Take pictures from where U live not hea I should pay for those VIDEOS
😫 I live in the hood of Hawaii but it's what I can afford and it's not THE WORST i could do here. I feel pretty blessed to have the apartment I have.
I just left town. I lived near Central Middle school.. once my daughter got out of the nightmare called Royal she was set to go to Central. I got the f*** out of Hawaii. I'm not putting her through that.
Our views are from the Outside of the housing, so many different lives and different situations with in the homes that are good and bad, just like everywhere. There is also prejudice every where, every Country, every state, every city, every town. So Hawaii isn't any different, and people who vacation here hopefully aren't so blind that they don't realize that poverty exists everywhere. I think we need to focus on fighting drugs and alcohol abuse, mental Illness etc, these things are very connected to helping create poverty. Thanks for doing this video and sharing it with us ❤🙏
Ocean point?
@Lopezflies888 I hear ya. I did the same for my family the tail end of 2016. Left the state and never went back.
@@88amona For me, a former Floridian, it is sad to leave what was once paradise. The tourism factories (corporations) came in a took away the beauty. I know we used to complain about the snowbirds but I know they provided income for many. I feel your pain for having to leave to go to another place. Hopefully not LA of Vegas. You might be going from bad to worse. Best of luck and hope you are living the life you want outside of where you were.
Don’t sell your land clean it up and enjoy the beauty that surrounds you. You can be poor and still take pride in property.
Sell your land to someone that appreciates it . If You aint doing anything with it but Complaining that the White man is keeping you down
It takes money and time to fix up a house, money and time these people don't have. Local people also have the attitude of by 'n by. They are just enjoying life the way it is.
You are confusing the Locals of Hawaii with the Amish of Pennsylvania and the Midwest.
time and money to pick up trash???????
@@barbaracalhau4168i THINK you mean “bum’by”, as in “by & by” as in ‘eventually’. it’s basically ‘pidgin’ english.
Half barrel buildings are Quonset huts…used extensively around WW2 by the military. We spend $3400 for a 650 sq foot house with no yard. Location is good, but not possible to make it here. Impossible for the true Hawaiian citizens to make it here.
A month?
Orka Winfrey is counting on that.
@@jeffrobodine8579 who the f is orka
@@djzrobzombie2813Oprah
California too😂
This is why when tourists talk about “I want to live here”, locals laugh.
I lived on Kauai for a year when I was 18 and only 1k in my bank account. It really is doable if really want it.
I live in Hawaii.
A lot of these homes in Waianae and other parts you visited cost upwards of 700k-1 million depending on how close it is to town. So it might look ghetto on the outside, but the people who own the land might have a million dollar net worth on paper due to their house and very low property taxes that allow them to stay.
You have middle class and even upper middle class living alongside people living below the poverty line who are renting section 8 or stay with family in their already paid off homes.
That's why you see a lot of nice lifted trucks parked in front of a 1 story run down 2bed build half a century ago.
I'm an electrician in the union, journeyman pays around 120k a year full time and a lot of my coworkers live Waianae or kalihi. There's a lot of violence compared to the rest of the island but nowhere near as bad as the rough neighborhoods in cali.
Exactly. If someone wanted out of Hawaiian "slums" they could literally sell their property and get a million and live like a king in a cheaper state like West Virginia for example with low cost of living!
@@juliemanarin4127 the culture is different on mainland. They might speak the same language but it's like telling an American to move to canada or Australia. Most people who move come back. A lot of times they're successful by working and saving on the mainland and come here to buy a house.
🤬💬 If you look at his other videos, Clips. As he makes his rounds around the island, he's only looking for negative, and stays focus. On people's hardship, nothing but negative criticism. He gives the island people, not places or things. Can you see or hear him say anything positive about anything? This is why (Howley's or White's) are disliked. or should I say? Hated? It's people like him and other youtubers that go there and criticize people's hardship, but he's the worst. He mentioned he's from North Carolina. Too bad he didn't make any of those remarks out loud or the local people: would have shin checked him and gave him another permanent scar. , he'll put his wife's in danger over there, or somewhere else. they'll see this video and remember. Him You'll see him on the local or national news. And those are some Mighty. big boys and girls. Those girls would have had his wife join the party, too. When I was there, there was a military white guy. And 2 blacks White. look identical like that Russian guy who fought Rocky in the movie. Me and 2 local girls we were in Kaneohe in oahu. That white dude started talking S💩 putting the 2 girls down with F#%? Up
Jokes. for no reason, so I put him down with a few of my own. The girl.
started laughing, and so did his military Black buddies at the end. I said to him, "How do you like me now?" He automatically wanted to fight. He stood around (6'3"=250)he looks like a weight lifter. I'm(5'11"= 195. At the time I said to him, let it go. We're out to have a good time He said no. I'm about to F#%? U up"?!! So I started removing my shirt off. My body is blasted with tattoos from head toe. His 2 black friends seen all my tattoos & said oh your from the hood then told him he was on his own. I told him I'm not from here. I'm from California. I made a quick prayer to the Lord to see me through this He was big and healthy.💪 So we squared up. I faked I was going to throw a punch Instead i kick him in his nuts. Wrap my legs behind his legs and flip him At the same time with my hand Pushing up on his throat As I pushed him Backwards to the ground. I allowed him to get back up and ask him did he have enough. He said no"!! So I did the same Thinking he wasn't going to expect that again.and got him back on the ground again this time. I kicked him few times in his ribs and in his head. I asked him. Did he have Enough he said yes.🥹
He asked Why were we fighting"😵💫? If he only knew. What I knew What I had learned. from older brother Held two different degrees of black belt & new tyboxing are dad. Also, he trained us in boxing, He learned that before going to the Marines, we lived in the hood. So for old (Nicky,) it just a matter of time, somebody will hear him or remember him from videos, he makes And the sad thing is that his wife is going to pay for his Stupidity.🥴💥👊🏿✌️ Out.
My Nana was born in Hawaii and raised in Kalihi was in that neighborhood and was there Pearl Harbor time I miss the family bbq's short rib, mac salad w/sticky rice :(
@@RaveN_EDM I live in Makaha and saw a lot for sale that’s 100ftx150ft for $900K! Big enough to put a two room tent on! Nowhere near enough for a home. I couldn’t believe almost a million bucks for a tiny lot!
The reason the house was up high on blocks, is because they are planning to put legs underneath it. Doing so will make their flood and possibly even fire damage insurance a lot cheaper. You can see this kind of construction all along the Texas Coastal Bend region, but very popular driving from Aransas Pass, all over Rockport - Fulton, houses all around Copano Bay, Lamar, and Holiday Beach.
The poor find it much cheaper to not make improvements to their property or their neighborhood, which helps them to avoid higher property taxes and may even help them out getting charity. Screwing the entitlement system is a real problem and more should be done to disqualify many who are professional freeloaders.
In my neighborhood, I routinely go on walks with a trash bag and pick up trash. Today, I helped two neighbors trim their trees using my equipment. I even got a free beer out of the deal. But I care about how my neighborhood looks and I do a lot to help it look fantastic, even scatter grass seed in bare spots. So, my point is, that a neighborhood is only as good as the people who live there. They obviously could be doing something to make it look better if they really cared.
Not just people who live there but the landlords. Some tenants don't want it to get fixed up because that would mean they need to move out and that's what's going to happen once they get most places renovated. Do you own your home?
@@house_greyjoy absolutely. You aren't going to believe this, but I realized what you shared and came back to add it to my comment. Property owners; especially land lords benefit from a crappy looking property, because it does save them on property value taxes.
I'm a minimalist, so I do own, but nothing showy. I keep it clean, nice, but not to show off. There is no trash in my neighborhood or unkept looking places, because I make sure of it and people routinely cut their lawns. We all could do more to beautify the world. I can't begin to count how many trees I've planted or seeds I've scattered.
@@WilliamCooper-l6f Anyone that owns a home, that improves it, will have their property taxes increase. In my city they actually have a 'right' to inspect inside properties and rate everything. If you put in an expensive kitchen, bathroom, improve the finishes....your property taxes are going up. Any improvement, inside or out, including yards, may/will increase your property value, which increases your property taxes. It's a Catch-22.
I've figured out how to work the system... through utube videos🎉 my paperwork/online game is legit son... Now I'm tax free and income of 53,000 plus medical and housing...I quit my damn job and retired. Good luck friends more and more are following our path.😊
You are right! And good that you help out your less fortunate neighbors
Oahu is not the largest island, the big island of Hawaii is the largest island, I lived there.
That’s what I thought. Thanks
Oahu is the largest by population.
I thought so,
It's the most populated .
Exactly my thoughts
looks like old military buildings they used during World War II, those half barrel houses are called Quonset huts
Had choke in Ewa Beach back when I was growing up
Wthose use to be old world war 2 barracks
Yeah I remember those things from way back in the day. LOL
like gomer pyle
Yep. The surplus was sold off to the public.
Born and raised Oahu, 47 years old grew up in EWA Plantation now living in KAPOLEI. This is the Waianae Coast, rich in land and look at the beautiful Waianae mountain range! You were right when you said these are the last ones holding out. It appears they’re trying to turn West Side like how East Side Hawaii Kai and Hawaii Loa Ridge is. So glad you captured all this‼️ In years to come, it’ll turn gentrified. Sad. Mahalo Nick 👋🏽
People please do fact check.
These places he showed are not the ghetto. It’s a part of the island of Oahu where us blue collar people live. Have some respect. Aloha 🤙🏽
If anything what gives him the right to film all of this, n talk down on our islands.😢
Period
Tell you what, leave all your valuable belongings in your car, and leave your car there for 24 hrs with the windows down. Let me know if its ghetto or not.
Oahu’s poor areas look prosperous in comparison to many mainland slums.
A $5000 house in Gary, Indiana would cost $500,000 for ai comparable one in Hawaii.
@@jeffrobodine8579 and I'll take the one that's literally as far away as possible, AND located in paradise. Enjoy Gary?
P.S., not everyone is as led by the hivemind and chooses florida 2.0, aka Maui. Lava does a good job at ensuring the plague of modernity doesn't spread too far.
@@Kaleki935 Lava is only on the Big Island since it’s the youngest island with active volcanos. Yes, our slums definitely are waaaay better than eating pagpag in the Philippines 😢
Yes indeed
I agree. I'm in Los Angeles, Cali. And the so called slums of Hawaii are far more pleasant and still a paradise in comparison to the many areas in Southern and Northern Cali. Downtown LA is uninhabitable with homelessness and drugs all over.
My father left a farm in North Carolina and joined the Army in the 1930s. They stationed him in Hawaii.
I was born in 1970, he told me that he didn't serve anyone. He loved his country, but hated the military, because he watched them collapse the Kingdom of Hawaii in his lifetime.
Gee , and I always thought it was the Japanese business men
all the USA did to hawaii was give them modern technology. its the native hawaiians that made it the dump it is.
Nothing worse than a traitor
I didn't get it...😮
Hawaii sucks. Big time
$55k a year is comfortable living in the heartland of America. It's just plain crazy $55k a year in Hawaii is considered poverty.
well remember now, just about EVERYTHING comes from offshore; construction materials, cars, clothing, MOST foodstuffs, basic necessities, electronics, books, luxury goods…you name it, it’s coming from somewhere ELSE. shipping costs have skyrocketed too. & the public transportation system is a killing joke. in terms of livelihood you have tourism, construction trades, education system (ANOTHER grim joke over there), the military, corporate agriculture & criminal activity. not much else. 🫤
@babagalacticus Unless I was a Hawaiian native or a billionaire, living in Hawaii seems like a lose/lose situation through my eyes.
IKR?
That would be considered poverty in California too.
55k works just fine. Thats like 4500 a month. Honestly, 1500-1800 1bd/1bth appartment.2 people with combined income works great.
I left Hawai'i in 2010 & never went back. Born on Maui & lived on Big Island, O'ahu & Kauai😢 I can't afford to live at home anymore 😩
I got tired of the struggle 😞
Feel Ya, Sis! Left in '13 after 18 years... traded it in for Florida, which was not such a good trade-off, especially now that it's also starting to become too costly to live here, but is a cesspool of blind Right-Wing cult worship.
my heart breaks for you brother really & TRULY. got a brother-in-law & his family there with 2 female teens (i’m a “calabash uncle” i guess) who works as an aviation mechanic. they bought awhile ago, have a nice property with a LOT of “sweat equity” & i honestly don’t know how they do it. but i’ve seen many of my wife’s cousins & nephews have to move stateside. it’s obscene. 🤙🏽
Where did you end up? It is terrible you had to leave your home...same crap in California. I unfortunately live in Chicago 😢
Yep🤙
4:59 5:03 5:04 @@babagalacticus
I think it's funny that the BBC published an article about natives hating outsiders.
The BBC once sent a correspondent to Hawaii, named James Cook. Someone had a sense of humour...
Those mountains are just breath taking... I admire these people for standing their ground.
It’s their land they deserve to stand up for it especially since the government is trying to get rid of them
it’s really not so much about “standing their ground” as practicality. say you sell you plot for even THREE mil? THEN what? buy ANOTHER place? 3 mil wouldn’t last a family of even FOUR very long out there. move to VEGAS & work in “hospitality industry”? ugh, probably doing that already & at least it’s in fresh air with sweet beaches & family & friends all around & a culture they understand. these ppl are TRAPPED. & now with climate destruction wreaking havoc just about EVERYWHERE on the planet, why die of heat & thirst in the desert.
“standing their ground”; you make one funny joke there buggah. 😹
Quonset Point in Rhode Island was manufacturing such structures, which they called Quonset Huts for WWII.
First DESIGNED there, yes, but manufactured everywhere during the war.
Bet the designers put in a lot of overtime coming up with that design.
Loved them while stationed in Korea. Pretty cool design.
Thank you for showing us the true America. The government neglected this former beautiful island. It is so sad😢!
And poisoned the water. Red Hill.
I was born and raised in Hawaii! If I could afford to move back home, I would!
High fructose corn syrup destroyed the cane business. It's 100x sweeter and toxic.
I was born and raised here in Hawaii, in Kaawa to be exact but I can honestly say that this place is just getting worse and worse. So many people are being priced out of paradise and some that are more unfortunate and can't save the money up to even leave just become homeless. The state and county are some of the most corrupt in the nation. My hometown hasn't changed much but everywhere around me has. The places I used to have fun as a kid have turned into crime hotspots, people are more violent now, crime is on the rise, local businesses are closing hourly, and it's all going to shit.
😭
Thanks for sharing the facts. It's the same everywhere in the USA. A single person can't afford a roof, and water, sewer costs.
Sad we all need to pray for Hawaii.❤
Sorry to hear that...
Yep unfortunately it’s like this in most countries now it sux, the world is only for the rich now 😢
My dad was in the Navy and was stationed there in 1962... Just after he served in the Bay of pigs.... I remember going in one of those half barrel houses, vaguely, on the military base in Honolulu Hawaii... I loved being there as a little kid... I would walk around barefoot, which I wouldn't do here in New Jersey.... I remember shopping at the wigwam.... I started kindergarten there and my teacher's name was Mrs.
fujimoto...Our family came back to the mainland in 1966, Lakehurst naval Base New Jersey, to be closer to our relatives... My father served in the Vietnam Nam war twice when he was serving in Lakehurst, NJ. I guess living in Hawaii wasn't too expensive to live in at the time because we lived in the military housing.... We liked living there, and didn't want to leave.... We had these lizards that would live underneath our refrigerator and they would come out and greet me often....🌴🏝️🦎 We had banana and coconut trees in our yard, and a nice Bush of Jasmine...
We also lived in Navy housing in Halawa until they built the highway and aloha stadium and we had to move out…
Very poor Filipinos?omg
@@lettyiloreta5765 Yes before, Now new Generation of Filipinos are Lawyers, Doctors, Nurses, Realtors etc, They have a Good Reputation of Being Honest and Hard Working. Not like the others that came later on. Their parents worked so hard and cared for their children.
I lived on Ft.Ruger 62-67
I Like the "humans" keep out....Animals welcome....I feel the same.
maybe that is for any animals that read English??
@@catchasindog Brillenschlangen
@@Klapauzius-369 am unfamiliar with that term
Humans are animals.
Humans meaning squatters!!
15 years, your friend is still a newbie.
😂 yep! So true
Was gonna post the same thing!
Yes, he still a malahini!
What is wrong with you? Seriously this is so disrespectful. This is like going onto reservations and talking crap about how people live and disrespect the situation colonization has put them in. These people are making do with what they have and can afford because so many outsiders are buying property and local people can’t afford to be homeowners. And just cause your friend has lived here for 15 years doesn’t give him the right. Did you ever think what if someone sees their own home watching your video. Leave these people alone, you wanna do something why don’t you find some way to build affordable housing for local families. Don’t put them on display like a circus side show!
Stand your ground, Hawaii 💙
It's hawaiian style houses doesn't mean it's poor.
Looks to be slummy style houses, from not caring about oneself or their living conditions!
@@charlieneal8253these houses are at least 600k for single family homes, most closer to 1 million.
Construction costs are extremely high, labor and materials. A lot of people have to do it themselves or don't do it at all.
Pretty much it's the land has values.
@@charlieneal8253calling this the slums you diffenlty never seen slums
@@charlieneal8253
Another Arrogant ⚪-🗑️!!!
Born and raised in Hawaii. Grew up on the Waianae side. The west side has always been one of the many the low-income areas of the island. I graduated 1988 and went into the navy. I just had to get away from there. Some of the people I grew up love that side, and will never leave, but back then it wasn't as bad as it is now. It has REALLY gone down hill with the homelessness, and even-lower-than-before income that a lot of people live with now. It went from being a shit town to an even shitter town over the last three or four decades.
Waianae - "Why-ah-nye" or "Why-nye" Nye as in Bill Nye
Waipahu - "Why-pa-hoo"
Wahiawa - Wah-he-ah-wah
Kalihi - "Kah-lee-he"
And it's Mayor Wright housing. Not Major Wright. Named after one of the Mayors from a long time ago.
Born n raised too. I went back the last 3 years and took my kids and left because hell no I'm putting him through todays Hawaii and the DOE. I was giggling at his words to But close enough. His tone is actually more respectful during this video than the other videos. But he gave some cold hard facts. I know many people don't really want to go to Hawaii anymore. Hawaii was different 20 years ago
Thank you for your service. Born and raised in ewa beach and still here. Much has progressed here in the ewa plains but of course like all things hawaii it’s expensive to live here. Next to bad governing and politics the natives sure make it worse. Anti American agenda makes me feel like an outsider or a true haole. Vow to never leave the islands because of my fondness but when shit hits the fan with the natives will have to move. Being born here makes me an American, however they claimed Hawaii isn’t American but rather forced. So what does that make me? Hawaiian? Instead of rising up and making their land a beautiful place to live for their families they choose to fight an unending winless fight. And that’s why they don’t progress.
Same story as you, I grew up waianae, makaha to be exact, graduated from waianae highschool and joined the navy. Did my time and wanted to move back to hawaii.. decided not to because of the cost of living.
@@ephtea614 *Kah-lee-hee* 😂🤙
I loved the episodes of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” taking down the tropical hillbillies of Hawaii.
Good afternoon from Papua New Guinea. I enjoyed watching your contents.
Could it be the 1% is trying to get all poor people of the island to keep it for themself ?!!
Lots of elite super bunkers getting installed. Do they know something?
Nah, couldn't be. I think Oprah and friends would like to invite all their Island neighbors over for a barbecue and car give away.
Good luck to them trying to get native Hawaiians off the island.
Typical dumb remark
Bing poor doesnt mean you have to live in and be a pile garbage.
I’ve seen houses on Freeport Bahamas with junk cars on blocks in the front yard. The street was one block from a beautiful azure blue ocean. Even if you’re poor you can at least pick up a broom and clean up your environment.
Poor is a mindset. Born that way.
If they picked up a broom they might become not poor...
Its military housing from ww2
Quanset huts?
@@thecw301yes the military used them all over the world .
@@user-wy1dl2me2p Quonsets are quite a bit bigger, & made of reinforced corrugated steel. Are these inspired BY Quonsets, or the inspiration FOR Quonsets? Either way, they're just Huts.
It's not all military housing, I live here I know.
@@Solo_adv sometimes they are used for storage , they are all over the Pacific islands .
Everyplace has its ghettos. There’s also a lot of nice neighborhoods too. There are a lot of high schools ranked top 2000 out of 25,000 schools in the nation, so must not be that bad to raise a family here.
You would be surprised that despite how run down many of these communities look, the people who live there are very close to one another and often look out for each other. It’s not as “lawless” as you might think it is. This is coming from someone who grew up in these places. It’s sad that we all have to struggle but when you struggle together, you make lots of family and many of which may not even be related to you. I would do it all over again if I had a choice.
Hey Nick , you did it again! You saw a little store in the Island Hood, told the Japanese Lady it was "Cool!" Then shaded it by saying it was a " Hood-Billy Country Market"! 😂😂😂😅😅😅😂😂🎥😂😂😂😂
Exactly why we hate tourists... Fakest people with the foulest intentions...
Nothin wrong with a hoodbilly country market
@@NickJohnson never heard it said that way...hilarious!☺
@@LogicalReasoning-b8t Stay Cool ~
Throw shade and support your local Hood Billy Country markets and Backwood Bodegas! 😉
This is so sad. 😢 I've been warning all my friends about what's been happening to Hawaii since 2013! This is what humans do to one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and it's horrible to see parts of the island in such distress! 😱🙏🏻😢
The human race seems to trash everything everywhere 😮
@@rayb.6537 I know that. I was just saying since I went here in 2013.
@@rayb.6537 I know It's been going on much longer than that. 👍
yeah but its not just the tourists, look at the trash that the local residents leave around
@@Amberlys94 I agree but you need to understand all this stuff is kind of before my time I was born in 94 but I get it.
It's odd that people that are "down on their luck" drive better vehicles than I do !!
Maybe cause it’s the housing that’s expensive
😮
In Hawaii it is very common for many generations to live under one roof. Husband and wife with their 20 something year old son and his girlfriend with their small children all living in one house... Sometimes one of the wife's or husbands parents live with them too.. generally it is these 20 or 30 something year olds living rent free in their parents homes who drive the nice lifted expensive new Toyota trucks and SUVs
I noticed that too. Boats, 1 ton new model trucks. Crazy
Most of these single family homes he drove by cost over 700k. It might look like a dump but land is very expensive. Looks like a ghetto until you realize that there's a 40k truck parked in front of a 700k house and the guy living there might be a electrician or carpenter making over 100k a year.
Epic video! It's cool to see the world inside out. When Steve told me you guys were doing this video I was pumped. Steve is a great dude, best friends for 40 years. I'm glad you guys got to meet and do something so epic. Much love, God bless.
Obviously you don't know Hawaii
Is there a need to-???🤔
I seen it too when I went. and to answer ur question, Hawaii drivers are very courteous! They respect each other on the road for the most part.
HA! You gotta be kidding, must neva been on farrington hwy. No mo aloha in hawaii
I'm curious how long ago that was
@@Lopezflies888 It was LAST YEAR!
@@firewarrior35 That wasn't my experience when I went lol LMAO Maybe it was a good day
People are so distracted with their cells , be careful. Then get the tourist who get mesmerized by the mountains and cross the center line. True story.
You keep saying Asian or Filipino. Many of the families living in public housing, or areas like Waipahu, are Micronesian. And you’re 100% correct about colonization. If the federal government pulled out of Hawaii, it’d be third world in about 6 months.
Dem got plenty Asians too
@@Lopezflies888 Yeah and you what a Caucasian ?
Hawaii is a MELTING POT actually. Also a lot of Military bases = A lot of Military families all around and Veterans that retire here if they can afford it.
@@coshyno A lot of Asian women and some men do.
The Asians like Filipinos are taking up over the islands not the micros or kanaka Hawaiians.
Quonset Huts, probably for military use in WWII
English immigrants used to live in them when they came to Australia. Many returned home. Hot
I lived in a Wainanae Quonset hut in the mid 70's ,$60 a month, free pakalolo and Hawaiian music from my neighbors. Lualualei Valley. I may have seen the street in this video.
Just what I was gonna say
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
That was my thought
If it reminds you of native American Indian reservation slums, the situation is similar. The natives get displaced and their lands stolen, resulting in...
Dear Nick,
Thank a lot for the videos and all the efforts you take.
You clips are just great and super interesting.
All the best from Germany!
Cheers, Hans
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@@NickJohnsonfranz
Poor Filipinos in Hawaii are still richer there than if they were back home… at least they have benefits.
Cock fighting, bull fighting, blood sports. Asian blood sports, disregard fur human life.
I know a Filipino family who were given permission to live on part of a nice piece of land, built a prefab that looks great for $1000. That’s rich.
Forgot to mention, that’s in. Cebu
I heard the Filipinos stick together the grandparents parents kids live together and buy houses together
It's sad to see that it hasn't changed much in the 30 years since I was stationed there in 1994, 95, and 96.
These islands have ZERO economy because they're strictly tourist destinations. If I was well off and wanted to retire, this would be a beautiful place to live. But if I had to make an income there, I'd be f***ed and depressed. 😅
What I say too lol. If I win millions of lottery definitely
In 2001, I moved to Washington state right after the teacher strike. You could say Cayetano drove me to leave. Lol Leaving Honolulu was the best move that I have ever made. I was born and raised in Makiki. When lived in Honolulu, I had a one-bedroom apartment on Pensacola St. which costed me $164,000 in 1990. In Wasington, I bought 2 houses. Now, I live in Bellevue equal to Kahala or Hawaii Kai. Honolulu's tax base is so small. I was sick of educators getting no respect, similar to what cops are getting in Democrat run cities.
I live in oceanview Hawaii big island. These slums look way better than where I live. Oceanview is known for as “the Wild West” where anything goes. Most people live in un permitted pallet homes and tents. Most people don’t have running water.The amount of drug use,dog/rooster fighting,corrupt cops that look the other way,and dead bodies always being found is pretty unbelievable. Vacant cars everywhere. Getting robbed is a normal occurrence.Guns being shot is a normal thing you hear pretty much every other day. Packs of feral dogs roam the streets and attack people and the mental health problems and drug issues are rampant.
HELLO NICK FROM ALBANIA RESPECT YOU.
Wipe-a-hoo, lmao Nick you got me rolling with that pronunciation
Locals will hold on for dear life until the rich folks force them out--one way or another.
It's not even Haoles anymore. They are the ones running things and trying to make things right. The crazy Rich Asians from China and Korea are the ones sneakily buying up land
You need to know that many of the poor areas you showed are called Hawaiian Homelands. Available for Hawaiian people only. The houses and land are long-term leases. People who live there cannot sell them for a million bucks. There is a very long waiting list to get into one of these properties---like 20-30 years.
Kahili?!!?!?!? It is pronounced KA Lee hee. You clearly didn't bother doing your homework before filming. You ought to be EMBARRASSED of yourself! You are a prime example of someone who doesn't IMMERSE yourself in your work. Leave Hawaii and never come back!
I thought the hawaiian homeland is niihau I heard pure Hawaiians are gigantic is this true
First off, those are old military Quonset huts. Some are quite clean on the inside. My mom was a single parent with 4 kids close in age. I worked from the age of 14 as did my siblings. We went to public schools in rough neighborhoods. We lived way in the rainforest. I worked on the beaches and Kuhio Park terrace. Low income housing. Hawaii was my home. Island education isn’t available to all after high school. I went to the mainland to get a further education and married an Alaskan and didn’t go home. My husband wouldn’t get a good job in the islands. My sister and brother in law got their mainland education and went home. My brother in law is part Hawaiian. He did have a tough time getting a job that paid generously. My sister worked hard as a teacher. Many Ohana either work for the government or tourist industries. Neither pay that well. Things cost lots of money but this is the home of my friends, family and classmates. They work the best they can and know how to survive. They love their aina. I miss and love the islands. I have many Ohana in the islands. There is always crime there but Oregon isn’t any better. Very expensive too. Our house was bought in OR for 36 thousand and now worth 1/2 a million. My sister’s house is now worth a million now. Food expensive here. More expensive in Hawaii. Mainland food is shipped in. There is always living on local food. Ohana here and there learn to survive.
I lived in the islands on and off since 1947. My home.
Hawaii is incredibly overrated. Don't let the travel industry and the chamber of commerce lie to you. Its no paradise.
No big draw for me. Too far from the East Coast & the rain. Don’t dig that whole Locals Only crap
Was born there and lived for a short time, only draw is childhood memories; after that, its just another human inhabited American dump . . .
Ahhhh... but at least unlike North Korea you don't have a bunch of "Minders" following every step you take and restricting "Where" and "When" you can go and "Who" you can engage in free & open conversations with!
I'm certain that the tourist Hawaii areas are quite different then the down scale regions-???🤔
I was blessed to visit Hawaii twice both times to Oahu and The Big Island. Once in the mid-90s and then again in 2002. The first trip was for a travel magazine touting the first 747 service from New York City to Oahu non-stop. First class. The one and only time I've been on first class. And it was plush. Upon landing in Oahu I stayed at a major hotel and given a tour of many tourist sites and a helicopter ride, etc. But I was fortunate to meet up with a local who worked at the hotel during my downtime. We clicked and she took me to her neighborhood, which looks a lot like one of "the hoods" full of native Islanders. We went to a local eatery and played pool and went bowling. And honestly it was the best time I had after spending so much time in tourist traps and high-end places. Being able to meet with and talk to people who live work a day lives on an expensive island that caters to tourism is really eye-opening. You see everything from a different perspective.
During my 2002 trip again I went to some of the tourist spots like Mauna Kea and Pearl Harbor, but also went with a colleague in the same industry I was in who worked locally, and we went to Costco of all places that had just opened on the island. And it was a traffic jam of humanity there. And one of the things I remember was being able to buy macadamia nuts dirt cheap compared to the mainland. And what they call "a plate lunch" that they even had at McDonald's - choice of protein (teriyaki beef or kalua pork), two scoops of rice, and a scoop of macaroni salad. 😁
Beautiful people and beautiful scenery, rich culture. Even in the most humble of places.
Sounds like a once in a lifetime adventure. Very cool you got a natives perspective
There isn’t a housing issue because newbies don’t want them built.
1. Federal, state, and county governments own a lot of land.
2. Big landowners mean at least 85% of the land isn’t really available for new development.
3. Some of the land is zoned for agriculture.
4. Maui had about 14 square miles dedicated to housing before Lahaina.
5. It takes a long time to get permits approved for housing.
Affordability is an issue. Only 20% of the people in Hawaii can afford an average house. A lot of that is employers that hold down wages because they have leverage:
Wherever the white man goes it's FOUL
I’m a tourist who just paid a visit to Waianae. Yes, it is a low income neighborhood with an unhoused community AND the area was beautiful. I watched the sunset at Pokai Bay park and it was gorgeous. The setting sun made the Kamaile’Unu Ridge shine like a priceless neckless. The park was full of families playing on the beach. Waianae is also home to the EE Waianae Solar Project, which provides enough clean energy to provide power for 27,000 homes! Yes, there is adversity to overcome but there is also much beauty in Waianae!
Visit KPT (Kuhio Park Terrace) next time to see the Samoan gangs, than let me know how you feel.
In 2000, I visited Honolulu for three days, and then Lahaina, Maui, for another four days. It was magical. The recent fires broke my heart. 😢❤️
My home burned in the Lahaina wild fires 😢
Makes you wonder how much worse this country’s gotta get before things get better
We haven't even relegalized slavery yet. Buckle up.
It will never get better. This was there plan and it all started with covid. People will lose there minds when it all goes down. I pray for us all. Enjoy your life today. New world order.
@@donedeal8385or perhaps we have and it’s just branded a different way now 🤔
@@donedeal8385 It's still the same, with enough money you can buy whatever you want and I mean whatever. Diddy tried convincing everyone he had talent but deep down you knew he was a dirtbag and guess what time revealed.
as long as people who are in power are there, there will never ever be changes.
Most people in public housing are working full time. You'll find a lot of Hawaiian Micronesians and Samoans. They work really hard just to maintain their existance.
A lot of them are working no time too I lived in town LOL right down the street in fact most of them are working no time
@@Lopezflies888 🤣🤣🤣
@@GNMi79 The opportunities are better in Hawaii but their original lifestyle was better back in their own countries. The American lifestyle is often traumatizing for them and they're over represented in the prison systems and homeless shelters in the islands. They are communal people. They'll borrow their American neighbors things and then be shocked when they're arrested for theft.
@patriciaanndemello4652 there are many peoples, often not of Caucasian descent, that don't do well in Western Civilization. They do better in the ways of their ancestors
The rent even in the slums is around 2k per month. If they are not working then they end up homeless and sleeping in the bushes.
Like how you record so we can actually absorb the views and see what we're looking at. On top of that you don't berate people or their lives while you're making clicks and likes off of them. Plus the bits of history/info, really great🏝🌈🌦
Shouldn't be talking like that because we r good people . We love our land Shouldn't be talking bad about us. That's why mainland people no more respect . Respect please we love our land and I'm proud to be hawaiian . God never put us here to be perfect remember that
I see mainly old cars with really expensive Rims… priorities people.
When you nothing much to live for, maybe a little bling on your rim is just the thing to turn your frown upside down.
Dude be prepared for some little menehune hatred comments coming from locals! I just left that Island it's so full of hate and ignorance and they don't know how to run anything in the government's corrupt I'm so thankful and relieved to be gone and living a good life! They can have the island the only people there who can have a good life are the extremely rich
yea I don't like islands either, fun at first, or maybe if you were born there.. but the best part is getting off the island and back to mainland, that's just me
massively overpriced isolationists society. very weird, they can have all of it I agree
did you suffer meeting Lazy Maisey?
Rich and the wealthy
Same story in Guam. Poverty, ignorance and hatred is in the DNA of the local tropical hillbillies.
Proof that most people in a place do not benefit from tourism. Then there is the issue of the impacts of land speculation and political corruption. Native Hawaiians should be able to afford to live there.
Low iq and drugs are a problem.
Hi Nick n ALL !!! ❤ 🕊 ThankYou4Sharing N MuchLove N EnJOY your night!!!
You too Sherri!
Thank you for this channel, so interesting to see all these places.
The Appalachia of Hawaii. 😔
Hawaii was overtaken by the US and Japan and became commercialized and pushed locals out. The worst part is the locals serve the tourists who treat them like crap and those tourists are so audacious they think they are supporting the local Hawaiians. Hawaii would have been fine if left alone and would have just been a quiet fishing island with beautiful nature.
Agreed!!!!
Just another reason for you to bash America
Babooze, Oahu not the largest island in Hawaii.
It is in population
Hey nick, Filipinos don’t live in those apartments, they lived in those 10 bedroom houses with other families. And Filipinos are not poor, they work too much jobs to be poor. And most rentals are owned by Filipinos.
@Nick Johnson 🇬🇧 Waianae🇬🇧 has "Hawaiian Home lands." And can only be sold to Hawaiians. (Native blood)🤙
Born and raised in Hawaii, 50+ years. Great video, but I gotta correct you on some stuff. It’s Kalihi, you keep saying Kahili. It’s Mayor, not Major, Wrights Housing. It’s Mo’iliili, not Molili. Don’t worry, haoles always mispronounce Hawaiian names. You are so right about how crime is getting worse, and many locals are moving to Vegas. I still remember going to grade school and talked about kill haole day, but it was more of a joke. IMO Bad places: Waianae, Nanakuli, Waipahu, Kalihi. IMO Good places: Hawaii Kai area, Aiea, Pearl City, Salt Lake. Homeless and crime are getting worse. Living in Hawaii is very expensive. It was a lot simpler and safer when there were less people living here. Mahalo for coming to Hawaii and showing what tourists don’t see. I love your videos!
He's from the da mainland LOL of course he's going to mess up our words no worries🤓
Thank you for correcting his miss pronunciation.
My grandparents lived in Kalihi and now in Nanakuli. They’re thinking of selling but I’m convincing them not to. I’m from the mainland and I love visiting there whenever we vacation. They’re so close to Ko Olina and they built a whole area with Starbucks and L&L!
Wow, “kill Haole day”, haven’t heard that in a long time. Went Kapaa high on kauai. They were nice enough to give me couple days warning, and I wasn’t raised by no dummy, I’d be sure to skip school that day. And then there was the nickname “shark bait” i took that stuff seriously, till this day i wont set foot in the ocean. I’m still here, but i married a Haole, go figure.
I had a great time hanging out with you Nick. Even though I've been here for 15 years, I still got to see a lot of things I've never seen, and I learned some new things too. Like those types of houses are called Quonset homes, or huts.
Steve!!! Good times brother!
@@GNMi79😢
There was a time I worked out in Waianae. Musician. I was honored to work with real Hawaiian musicians. It was fun. On breaks, we'd go out in the car and drink whiskey out of the bottle. It's the only time in my life I drank out of a bottle after someone else did LOL. We talked story. Good times. Good people.
That is not "good" people... just drunks getting drunk.
You’re so brave for drinking out of the bottle
@@thomassargent6684 You're jealous.
@@kwimms You're jealous.
Crazy! Because Hawaii is so gorgeous!
I love you and your videos, Nick! You crack me the hell up!!!
Nick should moonlight as a voiceover actor. His vocal inflection and mannerisms crack me up.
@@joefer5360 anyone that needs a old timey western story teller vibe he's amazing at it.
he's a reincarnated wild west tour guide. he used to work on the oregon trail
He sounds like a typical gen-xer who is sarcastic an unapologetic just like me 😂 I f****** love it
@@Lopezflies888 hell yeah !
@@Shannonbarnesdr1 😆👍
32:00 Good on you for saying it. Also, most of the people claiming "Hawaiian" blood here aren't even "Hawaiian" but Micronesian/Samoan and Filipinos some of them change their names, have met a lot of whites who changed their names to Hawaiian sounding ones lol.. There are of course, no "Native Hawaiians" only Polynesians who settled here.
You don't know what you're talking about!
@@jand8303 yes, he does. Got plenty little Asians walking around with Hawaiian tattoos 🤔😆
@@Lopezflies888 that's not "Hawaiian" tattoos. You don't know what you're talking about!
There are hardly any full blooded Hawaiians left. Statistics show the predominant races in Hawaii are Asian.
@@jand8303 well I'm half Hawaiian so I guess I wouldn't know what a real Hawaiian tattoo is 😆👍
0:06 Why are you confused by the "humans keep out"? They don't want squatters living in that property.
And since animals are unable to read you might as well put the note directly to the intended audience
"Humans" might appear to be gender neutral at first but upon closer inspection it's CIS gender biased language and should be "humyns" or perhaps "persons." No, "persyns."
@@glennbeadshaw727 I concur that the "humans" is extraneous and would normally be omitted, but it could also be used as a point of emphasis.
Kind've like: "If you can read this: I mean YOU", but squatters probably *_can't_* read.
@@eustacemcgoodboy9702Cis only exists in a liberal’s mind
I helped build that entire solar field back in 2016 in waianae, I was the quality control and had to check 142,000 individual solar panels. To the left of those odd shaped WW2 buildings at 5:23 .... Honestly, the stories and drama surrounding Waianae is overblown. Some of the nicest people on the island live out there. Sure, there's poverty, but violent crime is better than almost any small city or town on the mainland. The only crime out there is property crime for the most part. But even property crime is much worse in California or Washington state. It's very rural and country out there, lots of people live off the land, and get most of their meat from the ocean. It's got a rough exterior, but the west side of oahu is a hidden gem once you get to know it and it's people 🤙🤙🤙
Welcome to little Manila!
It's not "Cam IV" it's "Kam IV" as in Kamehameha the Fourth.
Amazing factoid I already forgot
Hawaii if mississippi and Malibu had a kid😂
Yeh it looks like the south
@@anilmathew9443 Where in the south, not no "south" I've ever seen. Looks like an DNC rat fest . . . .
Looks just like Guam....except Guam has more Tacomas! Lol
There's a lot of Tacoma's in Hawaii. Any island, just not at the "hoods" 😆😆😆! I'm going to add Guam on my travel itinerary, just to see the beloved Tacoma's there 🤣🤣🤣!
I visited Kaua'i recently and yeah it seemed like most of the trucks were Tacomas or Tundras =) Actually I too would love to visit Guam since my mom was stationed there in the late 70s and Pearl Harbor in the early 90s
Lol
The land is the gem, not the structures.
In another note, Hawaii is not in America, when it became a state, the United States cease to exist as the USA.
Please stop posting erroneous information. Your buddy has been here for only 15 years, never had to face white privileged attitudes keeping him a marginalized person, and obviously has no knowledge of quonset huts or plantation houses.
Poor people with new cars
Most cars are old pickups and sedans
@@davianoinglesias5030 Did you even watch the video?
You better have good car, that is your lifeline. Public transportation is extremely weak.
@@pickles9440google the bus for Honolulu and see the national rating of it for the USA, you're wrong.
I’m watching from Siberia, Russia, the city of Novosibirsk. It’s interesting to see what countries look like that are located on the other side of the world from me :)
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Im an american but I consider Hawaii to be separate culturally from the united states. they have their own traditions, customs etc its sad to see what is happening to the natives,.
@@massiveattack777 Привет 😀 И только разница во времени, у нас 2 часа ночи, мне не спится, решила по странам " поездить":)
@@Iceify_ So in any country there are developed, rich regions, some require improvement. Nature is beautiful in Hawaii:)
Aloha from Maui, Hawaii my friend. I would say I'd like to visit there but I think it is much too cold for this island boy haha.
The people should have taken the governors instructions by helping clean up their own streets. Its called self governance and thats how it should be. We shouldn't have to rely upon the government to do stuff for us. The whole script has been flipped. We, the people tell our government what to do. Not the other way around. Sadly people have become laxy and reliant upon the government that they don't know how to govern themselves anymore.
The Tytler cycle in full effect
Sum be mad the white man's ruling the island. They don't trust locals to run it and they both whites in then They don't want to take good advice
Try governing yourself and you'll be charged with unlawful assembly by the FBI or National Guard or other LE official, or maybe inciting a riot or impeding an official proceeding of the government. Ha. Go show us how to "govern ourselves."
Yes sir.
Give us the guns then we'll talk! And as for Nick, there is no such thing as gun violence!
Maybe that’s how some people like to live! You don’t need two story houses and big landscaped yards! Different culture different way of life!
The truth is most importantly of why the Hawaiian people is living the way they are living.
I suppose if one has to be homeless Hawaii isn't such a bad place to be
You just have to learn to sweAt and stink
Decades ago I lived in one of those Quonset huts for a year. Fun fact: they are specifically designed to collapse in sections that still retain their rigidity so that many, if not all, of the troops inside would survive a bomb blast.
Alright, the good stuff 👍
Why would you want to be cop nowadays? Put your life in danger, for what? It's hard to have an effective police force when the media and the public heavily scrutinize it whenever they use any kind of force. So instead, cops aren't really doing their jobs as effectively anymore in fear of being scrutinized, imprisoned, or fired and lo and behold, crime rises as a result. Criminals have more power than the police do these days so why be a cop when there's not much law enforcement taking place anymore?
If you want your neighborhood back to being safer, then you have to have police and you have to let them do their jobs effectively. If not, then what you get is more crime when these armchair experts call for defunding the police and rioted in the cities to make it happen. Now they're all complaining that the police aren't doing enough. Well no duh. You got what you wanted, this is literally what people asked for so you don't have any right to complain now.
And the people hate you