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Governor: Now is not a good time to travel to Hawaii

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I can’t wait to go back and visit relatives that all grew up there.

I miss hanging and chilling with family and friends there.

Zoom just doesn’t cut it.

But respect the governor request.

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I live here in Hawaii and enjoyed the lack of tourists last year. Less congestion on the roads, in stores, etc. But now that Hawaii has 'reopened' we have the wrong kind of tourists - unruly, rude, and those who booked cheap deals. I miss the Japanese tourists - they were very courteous, big spenders and aware of our customs here. It's the same reason why I love traveling to Japan - I always feel so safe and secure, it's so clean (no rubbish on the ground), store clerks are super friendly, etc.

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I too have family and property connections to 常夏のハワイ and have long assumed that I, along with my equally aging wife, would be getting back there for a longish stay. Ah but oh 無常! Yesterday I talked to a longtime resident of Honolulu, now here in Japan, who says that he doesn't think he and his wife will ever get back there, adding that he's actually happier here. For one thing, he says, noting the obvious, it's safer in Tokyo. Honolulu has a lower violent crime rate than the US national average (for what that's worth!) but a higher property crime rate. (I speak as a burglary victim.) Recently, there has been an increase in gun violence. And then there are the druggies--lots of 'em...The last time we were in Honolulu, we saw a semi-elderly local woman quarreling with a semi-elderly homeless woman, clearly from the mainland, her belongings hung from a (stolen) shopping cart. They were hurling racial epithets at each other. (Let's just say that neither was white.) There's a lot to be said for "chilling" in Japan...

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Lock it all down!! Ban travel!!

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I planned to go back to Hawaii where I lived for 13 years and now in Japan ~ however cannot go due to this covid threat all over again.

Just want to have a beer and chill on the beach at sunset with friends and family who live in Hawaii.

Aloha to everyone!

Stay safe!

2 ( +3 / -1 )

If there’s any state that desperately needs a Republican governor, it’s Hawaii.

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