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Old Jun 6, 2018 | 1:33 am
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Originally Posted by msp3
If you said that about Kauai, the narrative would have been somewhat easier to swallow. Puna on the Big Island doesn't exactly evoke warm and fuzzy feelings amongst most people in the islands, its a mix of mainland transplants, hippies, and even the locals there can be described as extremely cheap people who *choose* to live somewhere where this happened multiple times in modern history...
But only the kama'aina know that, and they aren't spending many nights in Hilo hotels on leisure to begin with.

Also, there are million dollar homes swallowed up in Vacationland now.

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