I mean I ❤️ this place, I want to move here, but I don't want to be poor. Why, tech gods, have you deprived us of this beautiful existence?
You can work remotely right?
It’s bad enough trying to get anyone in tech here to work with half the rest of the country. First you’re 3 time zones behind, then you show up 2 hours later than everyone else. Add the time change to Hawaii and we might as well just work with India.
Expensive
Many of the locals/natives are very racist against white people. Great place to visit but it’s a real problem for living there.
Then where would we go for holidays? Mars is not an option yet.
I hired someone from Hawaii. He worked in the defense industry. Pay wasn’t very good out there.
Defense pays poorly but for different reasons (i.e. fixed length/fixed cost contracts effectively cap total compensation). Also, if the defense contractor bids and wins an RFP with low margins or no cost of living adjustments, it guarantees low wages for the length of the contract.
I had the same thought my first time visiting Hawaii. Then I did some research and I learned that Hawaii is the #1 most expensive state in terms of cost of living (followed by California, Massachusetts, New York, then Alaska.) So as others have said, it’s probably mostly a cost issue, but also the fact that Hawaii is 3 hrs behind PST and 6 hours behind EST.
Sure let all tech companies move in and see if it still holds up as the place you want to be
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Let it be the way it is.. serene and beautiful