• comador @lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Unless you are a native Hawaiian, you can only lease the land for 100 years. Further, the cost of living in HI is way way higher than SoCal because everything has to be imported.

    Source: ex-Navy who lived there and used to crash open houses in diamond head for snacks when he was poor.

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      7 months ago

      Unless you are a native Hawaiian, you can only lease the land for 100 years.

      That doesn’t sound right. IIRC, one of the biggest reasons why Guam and the Marianas don’t want to become states is that “land ownership only for natives” rules aren’t allowed under statehood (for the same reason segregating against black people isn’t allowed anymore, even though the circumstances aren’t the same), but that ship has long since sailed for Hawaii.