Chris and I decided we wanted to move at the end of April. The logic was that our lease in our current home was up in May and we really did not need to be paying $1150 in rent for a home that we liked, but didn't necessarily love. It's been nice living right on the water, but with that comes: corrosion of everything, sea spray on our cars (meaning lots of wiper fluid and car washes), dirt blown into our house from the off-shore winds, etc. Additionally we have no water pressure upstairs which is a pain.
Of course I dove into house hunting...any excuse to make a spreadsheet or table! I quickly started to despair. Like most of our experiences on the Big Island - it's really hard to find anything decent. Our basic requirements were: Washer/Dryer (Kris), a yard (Chris), closer to the main road (We're currently 5 miles from it) and ideally cheaper than $1150.
We must have looked at half a dozen houses in Onomea, Waiakea, Hilo, and Keaau and I was starting to panic. None of them seemed to work for us and Chris was really pushing on the yard thing. As we did our house viewings I realized that two years living on the Big Island have really accustomed us to living in the middle of nowhere.
Because you would only say these phrases (in totally seriousness and excitement) if you lived in the middle of no where:
1. Wow! You can get mail here???
2. Water? Oh you get county water? I completely forgot some people got piped water! (We have been living on catchment)
3. The water isn't drinkable? That's okay - in our first home the landlord said there was UV filter on the catchment and there wasn't. We drank that for a year and were fine!
4. The street is paved!
5. I get 2-3 bars of cell phone reception here!!!
6. No indoor pets...bummer. Oh we can have outdoor pets though? A dog, chickens, sheep or goats...ooh let's get a goat!
7. Oh, you can't get internet here. You can't get internet?!?! Well that changes things.
8. What are these? Oh, you get wild pigs that run through the backyard?
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