{"id":39769,"date":"2013-11-08T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=39769"},"modified":"2013-11-08T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:00:29","slug":"live-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=39769","title":{"rendered":"Live Big in Las Vegas, or Small in Hawaii?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>gosh, the real estate market in hawaii is crazy.  i was driving near diamond head the other day seeing all the open houses for sale.  every home or condo over $1M.  while the average home in the United States is $177,450, the average home on Oahu will cost you $677,250.  so expensive!  i remember my grandpa telling me stories of how he bought houses for $10,000 back in the good old days.  now the very same houses are worth over $1M.  so if you want to buy in paradise now, it will cost you.  a lot of families are moving to the mainland because it&#8217;s much more affordable.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Screen-shot-2013-11-05-at-12.34.36-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Screen-shot-2013-11-05-at-12.34.36-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-11-05 at 12.34.36 AM\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39770\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ntake this house in Las Vegas for example.  it&#8217;s a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 2,974 square feet home with a two-car garage, bar, and granite countertops.  a dream house for most people.  and this house is selling for only $300,000.  you can barely get a 400 square feet studio condo here in hawaii for that price.  but for me, i&#8217;d take a small condo and hawaii over the big house and las vegas.  there is no way i can move away from hawaii and there is no way i will.<br \/>\noh, been bumping into a lot of go-naminori viewers recently.  want to say thank you to everyone for checking out the site and my blog. super stoked!  to the local brother i met in longs the other day, &#8220;thanks for checking us out everyday!  thank you for coming up to say hello.  that&#8217;s so cool how you moved to the mainland for 10 years and finally came back home last month.  stoked go-naminori was your way to stay connected to hawaii.  welcome back to paradise and i&#8217;m sure you appreciate hawaii a lot more now.  take care of your family and surf your dreams!&#8221;<br \/>\nand to the japanese surfer i met out bowls, &#8220;thanks for checking out my youtube videos.  sorry i didn&#8217;t update it for a while as i&#8217;ve been super busy.  but now at your request, i will make time to do another video of surfing in hawaii.  just for you!  stay tuned!&#8221;<br \/>\nand to the other people i met through my youtube videos, thanks for checking them out.  i&#8217;m over 11.1 Million views!!  OMG!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gosh, the real estate market in hawaii is crazy. i was driving near diamond head the other day seeing all the open houses for sale. every home or condo over $1M. while the average home in the United States is $177,450, the average home on Oahu will cost you $677,250. so expensive! i remember my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}