Can We Save Paradise?
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Can We Save Paradise? 🌺 | Addressing Greed and Its Consequences in Our Community
Aloha, 365 Hawaii Living family! 🌴 In today's video, Julian and I discuss the pressing issues facing our beloved paradise. From the impact of Airbnbs on housing affordability to the ripple effects of rising costs, our community is feeling the strain. Join us as we explore these challenges, reflect on the unintended consequences, and share our thoughts on fostering a spirit of Aloha to create positive change.
🔹 Topics Covered:
The impact of short-term rentals on housing
How parking issues are affecting downtown Kona
The broader implications of greed and competition
The importance of community and collective consciousness
Steps we can take to bring back the spirit of Aloha
Let's work together to preserve the beauty and essence of our paradise. Mahalo for watching and don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more insights!
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Aloha and Amen❤
Thanks you two great talk Love to Our Oneness
I agree that the paid parking issue is a problem that prevents many customers from regularly visiting businesses in Kailua Village. It should be abolished or the fee significantly reduced. It was a bad idea that has proven to be bad for business.
Kudos! You two are right on target! Keep it up!!!!
Mahalo mahalo mahalo 🙏🏼I’m so glad you guys made this video. Touching lightly on unity consciousness and to look into oneself to make that better to help the outward shift. Beautiful love you guys ❤
Ps right before you mentioned the consciousness I said this is what you were talking about 😘
Aloha..start a petition on the parking issue. That really is a conflicting issue especially for businesses, travelers & mostly Islanders. Who owns the parking lots? I would like to know because there could be another solution. Aloha
I would like to know who owns them, as well..maybe plead our case..
Just returned from my 3rd trip to Hawaii, stayed partly in Kona all 3 years. First visit was 2007. We sadly noticed the degenerative nature of Kona. Hate to see that. It’s a sentimental place for us, got married at Kikaua point, had breakfast on our wedding day at the Fish Hopper. Husband grew up in Hilo. Saw this happening in other places too on the Big island. Still an amazing place!! But we did notice it.
Always best to “fix” issues proactively. Once government gets involved, the greed is unmanageable. I don’t think you want the government to regulate you into fairness. You are right about making it better with grassroots efforts.
Thanks you two! I totally agree! ❤
Love this! It’s perfect! Mahalo nui loa!🌈🫶🏽🕊️
Thank you for lending your insights today to us!
Great video. Keep up the good work!
after visiting Hong Kong many times and then driving thru the heart of Honolulu, one can realize quickly that there is a strong resemblance between the two cities.....crowded, smells of garbage in the back alley of restaurants/hotels; high rises where people living on top of each other and the fast pace life. The only difference is that Hong Kong has over 7 times the population of Oahu with comparable traffic congestions; cheaper cost of living and better mass transit system that people are actually using. Maybe we can make Honolulu a Free-Port like Hong Kong some day and call it Honkonlulu and benefit more.
Very thought provoking👍🏻👍🏻
Aloha guys, it’s brutal here and in Canada as well, all over Canada, we need new leadership
Great video.
You both have such a good sense of what our island and country truly needs😊😊
Thank you
We have been to the big island many times and have enjoyed following the two of you and all you share with us all. I fully agree with you both and don’t want greed to rule our lives. We live in Medford Oregon and will be visiting again soon (hope the paid parking issue will be resolved by then😳😉😁) Mahalo for your efforts to give back, share and enrich with the aloha spirit! David from Oregon 🌴🌴😁🥰
Thanks for sharing!
Poor Kona Inn, bad enough what covid did, now the parking is doing in the rest. Feels like the whole downtown will be shuttered soon and so many buildings need rehabbing. Greed.
Thank you for this, one other thing I noticed was that there wasn’t much of a self sufficiency in terms of at least produce etc. (except for some in big island) is that so? I am not saying there should be a lot of farm lands ruining the nature (with big Ag and such) but perhaps even backyard gardening, tiny farms etc. could be a bit of a ‘movement’ or such especially with such fertile soil (esp. in big island) where anything that hits the ground seems to take off. That would take off some of the external reliance as well on big companies etc. What are your thoughts on that? These days people in certain areas are ditching their lawns for growing produce and many following it. Perhaps there could be some middle ground on airbnb as well which I think may have happened too.
My wife and I are celebrating one year living in Kona after looking for five years for a home. We live in the Palisades. We experienced everything you guys talk about! A couple months ago after Yoga we went down town to try a highly recommended acai bowl place,. It was very good however I will NEVER go there again because there is no reason on Gods Green earth to be charged 13.00 per hour for parking! It is very sad that we can't go down town and visit the local shops. Also, I am still not used to putting on my blinker and having people slow down to let me in! Driving in California I never used my blinker because if people thought I was going to merge they would speed up. Mahalo, Julie for starting the Chocolate Festival. We went this year for the first time and loved it.
Thanks!
If there is any place left where this can happen, it’s on this island.
One more thing Please explain why a local grown watermelon at Costco is 13.00. I am here at the Costco in Michigan and am buying watermelons at 5.00 all day long. There are no shipping costs for local grown Melons?? Do they sprinkle them with magic dust??
They are hard to grow here! They can rot on the ground due to high precipitation here and land, water, taxes and labor costs are highest in nation.
@@365HawaiiMahalo They are very yummy! I am sure it is the soil
When i go to Hawaii or Maui. I pay enough in tax’s The city should use that money for their citizens…………. Remember after the fire 9 months later they wanted us back to spend money .
Julie Z for mayor!
LOL..wouldn't it be great to be able to lead a County where everyone was on the same agenda? However.,,they are not..and it's a tough job!
Local retailers could become involved in a parking validation system. Offering customers a partial refund of the parking fee.
Just an Idea.
Many do
Sounds like it might be worth doing a video just on the parking situation. Seems there is a lot of misinformation out there. Hawaii residents get 90 minutes of free parking at Coconut Grove for example and a the $5 per hour of $15 for 5 additional hours. Yes, you need to validate residency with a photo of you DL but after that, just requires sending a text message to park.
We ARE going to do a new video on that. They said they were eliminating the free parking for locals - Fosters is offering $20 off dinner coupons.,
What is a QR code? I'm not going to visit downtown much anymore. I don't even know how to pay for parking! I'm also REALLY sick of the homeless.
You have to have a mobile phone and know how to scan the code in order to park... you can park at the under ground parking garage and just give you license plate number to Kai's Eats and Drinks...same with Huggos and On the Rocks..no QR code.
That's what this video is about.
They should make parking free for locals and just charge tourists, that way it’s a win/win.
Also, when Hawaiians are pushed out of our ancestral homelands by the very people who are moving here and trying to live by our cultural ideologies of aloha, ho’oponopono, kuleana, mālama, ahonui etc etc, it’s disingenuous. Malihini keep talking about “paradise being lost”, without acknowledging that they are participating in that disappearance. We’ve said it time and time again, there is no Hawai’i without Hawaiians. When our people are forced out, they take aloha and all of our other ideologies with them, what’s left is a third-party false impersonation of these ideologies by people who are appropriating our culture.. Everyone keeps asking “wheres the aloha spirit” now days… how the million non-Hawaiians living in our homeland haven’t recognized the correlation between a disappearing aloha spirit and the disappearance of these islands aboriginal native people, if baffling to me, it’s no coincidence. We are a part of these islands in a way that malihini cannot really understand, if you remove us, you kill the islands in the same way removing someone’s heart from their body will kill them. That’s what you’re witnessing, the murder of our islands. If anyone wants to REALLY be pono, you have to right the wrongs you’ve contributed to and get Hawaiians back to our homelands, otherwise there is no saving “paradise”.
Do you not want visitors to come and stay in Vrbo units and shop and eat downtown? Are we not to feel welcome? I thought our spending was good for your community.
There are hotels visitors can stay at, it doesn’t have to be bnb’s that negatively impact locals.
Also, the “I’m entitled because I spend money there” attitude is exactly the kind of tourists we neither need nor want.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdomwow! Without tourism Hawai’i would be in big trouble. Look at the impact of Covid shutdowns. Without tourists, who is dining at the ocean front restaurants on a regular basis? Those restaurants provide employment for many locals! And VRBO units that have been renting to tourists along Ali’I Drive are not taking away from locals. Sounds like you are the entitled one. What do you have to say about this, Eric and Julie?
@@susanwhite5825
When did I say tourists shouldn’t come or that they shouldn’t eat in restaurants?! Don’t put words in my mouth in an attempt to give your weak argument credibility.
I said tourists CAN STAY IN HOTELS. We don’t need STR’s, they have done nothing but negatively affect the lives of locals.
Also, it’s adorable how you’re begging for Eric and Julie to interject an opinion… Eric and Julie who are by Hawai’i standards, new to our islands (nothing against them, no offense or disrespect meant)… rather than accept the advice and opinion of an actual NATIVE HAWAIIAN who was born and raised here and has ancestry to these islands that goes back to before Europeans even knew Hawai’i, or heck even America, existed.
You sound like all those STR owners that are spreading lies about the importance of STR’s in Hawai’i, that everyone’s calling out.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdomtourists who come for two to four week stays cannot stay in a hotel.
Unless you have lived and worked here, it would be hard to truly understand the state of our housing situation. Most businesses are short staffed because there is no affordable housing solutions for those working in the tourist industry. Locals who have been here for generations, have difficulty considering raising their children in their home. This has happened over the last 15 years with the introduction of Airbnb and VrBo onto the scene. The idea is not to completely eliminate STR, but to put much stronger regulations on where they can exist and how many can operate. Please understand that this has already happened on Oahu with no negative effect on tourism. Maui is currently making much needed changes as well, and the Big Island will follow suit. This is not an us and them situation, but rather how can we make the islands a HOME first for residents, and second, a lovely vacation spot for tourists. It’s a shift that is much overdue.