If you would have the opportunity to go to Maui, Hawaii?

to live and work there as a hairstylist, would you do it??
Even though you know it's the most expensive place in the world.

Honest answers please.
(I had planned to go to Georgia and live there, initially)

I have a four year old girl.

In a heart beat. My bro went 25 years ago with just 1500 dollars. He found a cheap apartment also shared with some roomates. Hes an electrican now. Also you dont need a car they have good bus service. The weather is perfect.Everyone shares the "Aloha" spirit. It means give to your fellow neighbor and share and halp them. true comunity spirit there.
write me johnmichaelmale@yahoo.com my business site is
www.deliveringonthepromise.com/jmazepa... mahalo

If you are young and single I would most definitely give it a shot. It's a chance of a lifetime and you only live once. Yes, it is very expensive but would still be worth the try I think. It isn't like you couldn't come back (just be sure to save some cash for that, lol). I'm 37 and wish that I had not passed up as much as I did. Go for it girl and have a great time!

IF your up for the risk of not being able to have money (because its expensive) then it sounds fun...

But I wouldn't because for me living on the island, would feel detached from my family and friends... since they would be so far, and I would miss them :(

my brother is theyre for a missionary he says its pretty alswome id do it if i was u my brother loves it haha

I sure would go. Maui is a beautiful island, most people who have been there say that it is their favorite island. You can save a lot of money on your fruit and vetg there by growing them yourself and going to the open markets once a week. With your skills as a hairstylist, if after a year you get tired of it, you can always move back. If I was you, I'd go for it.

I haven't lived in Georgia, but I've lived in Alabama and Tennessee. My sister has lived in Savannah for a number of years, and I have tons of friends in Atlanta. I haven't lived on Maui, but I travel there often (day after tomorrow, for instance) and I've lived in Hawaii for more than seven years.

To say that it's expensive doesn't really cover it. I'm a teacher, and if I took out a 30-year-mortgage on my current salary, I could buy a quarter of a small house on Maui, if you could buy fractions of houses. I could buy half a studio or a third of a one-bedroom condo.

If I move to Maui, I will probably pay half of my take-home income for rent. I will probably find myself in a tiny cottage in somebody's tiny backyard. The walls will be single-wall construction, which means that the outlets and light switches stick out because the walls are too thin to hold them. You don't need heating and air conditioning, but you may still pay $75 a month for electricity for a single person.

In a way, that's OK, because other people may never come into my home. It's a cultural thing. If you party at someone's house, you're probably drinking Bud Light on their carport, because people do not entertain inside. The houses are too small. I heard a local person say, "Dem guys on da mainland, dey get big garages. Nevah have parties in 'em!"

So why I am here? I'm here because I love it. I love the people. I love the food. I love the Hawaiian Sovereignty and anti-development activism. I love the history and the ties with the land. I love the ties between the generations, the hula dancers, the outrigger paddlers, the surfers, the divers, the fishermen, the farmers, and the elders.

I love the Native Hawaiians. I love the locals whose grandparents worked on the sugar and pineapple plantations. I love the Filipino and Micronesian immigrants. I love the kids who will have to move far from home to be successful, and I love the kids who will stay here knowing they will pay the big price. In fact, they will probably live a shorter life in order to stay on the islands they love. I love the ocean. I love the forest. I love some of the spiders. I don't love the B-52 cockroaches, the scorpions, or the six-inch centipedes, but I am getting better at killing them.

After my first few years in Hawaii, I moved back to North America for a few years, because I just couldn't afford it. I missed Hawaii every day, but I did not want to come back by taking a job away from a local person. I earned my teaching certificate because I knew the public schools in Hawaii--especially the rural ones--always need teachers. Of course, that's because they don't pay teachers enough, but you learn not to complain. The locals find it irritating, and I've been living here long enough that I do, too.

There is not the same kind of persistently unmet demand for hairstylists. My former hairstylist on Oahu has a daughter in elementary school by now, but she's still living with her own parents.