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Dude and Dude: Stormy Weather « O’Ceallaigh & The Quill — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:17:37 +0000

[...] got just as much aloha as everyone else around here. He made the mistake of being honest about it for five seconds and got [...]

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By: oceallaigh

oceallaigh — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:02:42 +0000

Well, Judy, I lived in Montreal for two years. We’ll see …

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:31:44 +0000

Hi Quilly and O.C……….Ya, all islands, it seems, are expensive, even the ones close to a mainland. I really hope you don’t have to pay tourist prices for food and necessities.

In Jamaica, anyone is allowed to take food off of trees or from crops, even on private property. if it’s not fenced in…and most is not. (a few at a time, of course. I’m sure, they frown on taking your own bushel baskets.) m-m-m? How many pineapples could a homeless Hawaiin eat? Just asking! Imagine the acid reflux!

Teachers in Canada get good reinbursements…$50,000 after 5 years with a B.A., for grade school, and that was years ago. (Weather…you say! Southern Ontario is on the same latitude as northern California…..but it’s not as great as Hawaii. ) And we are a university town. So, will we be seeing you folks soon?…………Judy

By: jackiesgarden

jackiesgarden — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:43:28 +0000

I like this post, OC, you are a funny man! And thanks for the link to the homeless. I was glad to read that MAYBE they are going to start trying to do something about the problem. I’ll never understand how we can spend millions saving whales or something, and have hungry people without homes.

By: oceallaigh

oceallaigh — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:56:14 +0000

Yes they do, TLP – though I’ll bet Delaware’s are better designed. And used less. It’s gridlock here. The problem with the teachers is actually pretty much throughout the public service. People claim, anyway, that they have trouble getting folks to take government jobs because the pay is so far below what can be made in the public sector for the same amount of work. But of course, as PC Dude found out trying to get a bus pass, you pretty much have to have been born on the island before anyone will tell you the correct time of day. Never mind the correct story about jobs etc.

As a scientist, nessa, I don’t use the words “never” or “always”. But I ain’t into tents.

Melli, they invited me here. They’d better …

Quilly, I was afraid of that. Maybe if we adopted a native …

Cooper, I’m told that people here either love the place or hate it, no middle ground. Every place runs by its own rules, and the Dudes are just announcing themselves as effing haoles by complaining about what they don’t yet fully understand. There is a reason why we’re not in New York …

By: cooper

cooper — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:15:55 +0000

My view is limited because everytime I was there it was at a hotel. Once I did stay at a friend’s house, or shack if you prefer, because that is what it was.

I loved it there every time I went although once we did get some very rude treatment at a beach which the locals like to keep for themselves.

I think you will eventually love it.
At the very least when the blizzards are taking over here, and the streets are full of ice you might
chuckle.

By: QuillDancer

QuillDancer — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:58:58 +0000

Nessa — OC wouldn’t let me live in a tent if I wanted to.

Melli — I knew I wouldn’t be self-supporting here. I didn’t know it would be so dang difficult to get people to talk to me!

By: melli

melli — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:08:02 +0000

Duuuuuuude…. you didn’t check this out before MOVING there? Sure hope OC brings home the bacon by the SLAB!

By: nessa

nessa — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:37:40 +0000

Quilly, you’re not living in a tent, are you?

By: QuillDancer

QuillDancer — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:33:39 +0000

TLP -- with the cost of living index, Hawaii teachers are the worst paid teachers in the nation.

By: TLP

TLP — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:10:15 +0000

Hawaii now has more miles of interstate than Delaware!?!?!? Holy Cow!

At first I was tempted to laugh at “Homeless in Hawai’i” because I think I wouldn’t mind living on a beach there. But after I read the article that you linked, I realized that it’s not good to be homeless anywhere. BUT, it’s better there than here.

On the teachers: I’m amazed that their salaries are so low! Unless I misread the figures, the highest mean monthly salary is under $50,000. Much less than right here, and yet the islands are so expensive to live on! Could the mean be skewed for some reason by including some exceptionally low salaries? Maybe they’re including some part-timers?