Reply #26: Don't stop dreaming! [View All]

[KamaAina]

The area around Hilo is the last place in the islands where land can still be had cheap (well, reasonable anyway). Look in the Puna district, south of Hilo and anchored by the authentic hippie town of Pahoa, or up Hwy. 11 towards Volcano (home to an artists' colony), or perhaps along the Hamakua Coast north of Hilo, with authentic paniolo (cowboy) towns.

http://www.hawaiiinformation.com

There are quite a number of people in East Hawai'i (Hawai'i County covers the Big Island; West Hawaii is the Kona coast) who are living "off the grid". Not coincidentally, Hawai'i County has one of the few elected Green officials, county council member Bob Jacobson.

http://www.greenhawaii.org/bob/index.htm

Plenty of Dems, too, though Repuke mayor (county executive) Harry Kim needs to be shown the door.

Let me know what you come up with! Even Honolulu is getting rather crowded, citified, and almost "mainland-like"... :scared: