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@user-zu3md5qz8y

Ай бұрын

you gotta play some Swing Out Sister and Basia - jazz pop music in oahum without music, life would be boiring

@dyrectory_com

26 күн бұрын

People on KZread are always questioning / debating the homelessness # in China. Maybe you should make a trip to China. 💡

@AndrewJones-wy1hk

17 күн бұрын

I have personal screen shot of you cyber bullying! You will loose your channel and I’m so happy.

@Humor-Activity-Club

16 күн бұрын

Nice video and info. Can you list the type of photo equipment that you use to make this video?

The gentleman sweeping the sidewalk at the 7:35 mark is one of a kind. His name is Charles. We stayed at the resort next to his house July 2022 Upon arriving, I noticed his mango tree full of fruit. My daughter and I asked to buy some but he said no. And instead gave us mangoes twice that week. Thank you Charles!!

@tylertatortots

Ай бұрын

nice story, ive had a similiar experience back in my day

It's not worth working 80 plus hours a week to live there. No way.. I have no clue why anyone would do that.

@asullivan4047

Ай бұрын

For a younger individual to engage in those brutal hours. For a duration of time to perhaps accrue a sizable down payment on a lower priced house. Might be a reason to do those hours-???🤔.

@allancooper3865

Ай бұрын

😮 how out of touch are the enchanted world , to slave away 40 plus hrs a week to try and just have a place to rest is not working out 🏋️‍♂️ for everyone , especially in these times 😂

@l.ls.8890

Ай бұрын

@@allancooper3865 Work all those hours when young to enjoy Sand, Sea, Sun and Sex.

@dicktracy5234

Ай бұрын

Leave the drugs alone, find a job, and work your way up . Its the American way.​@user-vz3mm8hb1r

@Mk25miami

Ай бұрын

Exactly, it's not worth it. Especially with the politics & taxes, I lived there until I was 16. The best decision my dad made was to move us to LV when he retired.

50 minutes into the video and I haven't seen ANYTHING that would cause me to want to visit there. Thank you for showing this content because you saved me THOUSANDS of dollars.

@marthabonelli3093

Ай бұрын

Really.I will pass.

@NewHaven203

Ай бұрын

I would go once because I want to visit all 50 states but it doesn’t seem like my kind of place, I’ll probably never return

@sonevgirl6331

Ай бұрын

There are other areas of the island that you would probably love. Turtle Bay, Ko Olina, Northshore. We almost never go into town. There’s so much to see and do on the island. It’s a magical & beautiful place

@drewe3650

Ай бұрын

My sister lives there been there 4 times and will never go back

@SamSamson-yi6vm

Ай бұрын

Here here!!

Born in Honolulu 1957. Then lived there from 1976 to 1989. The best times. I rented a spacious 2bdrm + a Lanai for 250.00 a month. in 1978). Dated a handsome local guy surfer firefighter. Went to luaus, fireman parties...the bestest time in my life.

@TUBESPECIFIC1

Ай бұрын

Yep, on the mainland, you could mortgage a family home for $100 to $200 a month back then. Apartments were about the same price depending on how average or executive luxury styled it was. Even in 1999, apartment rents ran $100 and up. By 2009, that was $300 and up. Now it's $900 and up. Inflation represents the loss of value to the petro dollar we just call bucks.

@SamSamson-yi6vm

Ай бұрын

You guys make me want to buy a Time Machine!!! Wow!!!! ❤

@KeithCindyPanama

Ай бұрын

in panamà city there are apartments for $2000 for a 2 bedroom. In the retirement community of Bouqutuete country you can rent a 3brm fully furnished starting at $500 per month. Look up relocation Panamà

@dickyhoey

Ай бұрын

Like growing up in Manila in the 1970s with the private clubs and parties etc.

@Nameless-lk8ld

Ай бұрын

Ohhhh….Okay 😉 Sounds like a lovely mispent youth. You do you boo!

I miss Hawaii the way it was 30 years ago. I have no desire to go back seeing what has happened to it today, even though I will always love the place and glad I was fortunate enough to be able to live there for 12 years in my younger days. The beauty of those islands will be forever engrained in my mind, just unforgettable.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Ай бұрын

Its just ugly seeing all these high rise buildings right next to the beach. When I grew up seeing hawaii stuff it looked more like the coasts of thailand and Cambodia. Wooden cozy huts and houses along the beach and woods behind it filled also with even more cozy 🛖 and stuff. Bascially leonardo dicaprios The Beach

@loralarose9615

Ай бұрын

When democrats run u forever

@sethroberts634

Ай бұрын

Keep voting Democrat and watch it all get worse, if it's even possible 😂

@dharma__3

Ай бұрын

NOPE; Hawaii was overpriced, too liberal and very nasty even 30 years ago. You might as well go back now then!

@pickles9440

26 күн бұрын

Yeah, Hawai’i thirty years ago was the time. Ive now been in hawaii for 42 years, kauai. About to leave for a chance at early retirement. Could never do that here unless was willing to eat spam and hitch hike. Going to seek out a nice place on the mainland.

Chickens are a great source of pest control. Natural pest control those little raptors will eat anything

@brentmcwilliams4332

Ай бұрын

Kauai is the chicken isle.🐔

@erictoulon5946

28 күн бұрын

@@brentmcwilliams4332 hurricane Iwa destroyed some chicken farms and let loose a bunch of chickens. It got worse after Iniki. Most rural areas don’t have much of a chicken problem we take care of the problem the same way we take care of the feral pig problem

@pickles9440

26 күн бұрын

Kauai chicks eat the centipede. God bless the chickies

@erictoulon5946

26 күн бұрын

@@pickles9440 cattle egrets eat a ton of centipedes whenever I mow I see them feasting on centipedes, field mice and anything else they can eat. When I was a kid there were a lot of toads and they ate centipedes and scorpions. I think chickens and other pests create an environment conducive to cockroaches and other insects breeding providing more food for centipedes.

@pickles9440

12 күн бұрын

@@erictoulon5946 idk man, I’ve seen a ton less cockroaches since i was a kid in the 80’s. The chicks keep everything clean. And hey if the world comes to an end you know we wont starve.

Nick, many of the homes that you see while touring Oahu, are owned, free and clear by longtime Hawaii residents. During the early 1900’s, a great number of those homes (or bare land in which houses were later built on, were purchased by immigrants from Asia who worked in the sugar and pineapple industries, and also as fishermen. Real estate was dirt cheap back in the day. Many of the current property owners today are beneficiaries of the original Hawaii immigrants who passed down ownership of the land to future family generations. However, these days; first time home buyers looking to buy a home in Hawaii, be it a detached house or condo; can expect to pay in excess of $900K or much, much more. Additionally, the HOA/Maintenance fees for various properties are ridiculous….

@GreenCanvasInteriorscape

22 күн бұрын

If they do own their homes, Bishop estate is leasing the land that those homes are on, 99 year leases were the norm when I was there in the early eighties, unspoiled joyous debauchery and Paradise all in one, hookers would proposition my stepdad as my mom and I walked along Waikiki at night. Ladyboys, mokes & titas bra.. In 84 I would hitchhike from my job in Waikiki to the hills behind downtown Honolulu, creepy dudes abounded, getting jumped for being white was a thing too. What a great place to be at age 19

We went with our best friends( gone now, sadly). Once you experience this place, you will never be the same. I loved the place and its people. I truly hope they are spared from any bad things to come. Mahalo and best wishes to them❤

@Jacklyn-zc8dc

Ай бұрын

Too late! Oprah took over.

I can’t afford to go to a neighboring state to visit my brother but illegals can go to North America and homeless can get to Hawaii, riddle me that Nick

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Ай бұрын

Its all about having morals or not

@bobzacamano658

Ай бұрын

Bidens America

@shrim1481

Ай бұрын

Maybe you should have paid attention in school and secured a better profession perhaps?

@loosilu

Ай бұрын

Mexico is in North America.

@aaronkamakaze2967

Ай бұрын

90% of Hawaiis homeless population are residents who have lived in the state 10 years or more. This absurd lie that states are spending hundreds of dollars on plane tickets to ship homeless people to honolulu has been debunked time and time again.

I really enjoyed the bonus footage with Richard while driving around. That was fun!

@JDAeroVR

19 күн бұрын

Recognized almost all these areas.

Born Honolulu in 1944 and raised on the beach's of the big Island, Hilo. Love the Islands but, they are over populated and money has ruined the Islands. Will never go back to that madness. Bailing on this video, makes me sick

@marthabonelli3093

Ай бұрын

Sad news.Same in Mass.

@SMaamri78

Ай бұрын

It's getting like that everywhere you go now. Beaches of Florida. Mountains of Colorado. Even my rural area of Kentucky is being overrun with Californians, Mexicans, Arizonans. They started coming here for cheap land and living and no crowds. But, ironically, they have driven up all three.

@sTraYa249

Ай бұрын

You care bobzo​@@bobzacamano658

@kevinleewilliams5119

Ай бұрын

@@bobzacamano658 Probably the people born there and the people who used to enjoy how nice it was before immigrants and other people came in and ruined it for them all. Its like how people from foreign lands move to america and think they can enforce their way of life over americans, its exactly the same, the natives dont want all these people here.

@carrenpalmer3453

Ай бұрын

@@SMaamri78 in fairness to Californians, until recently, we've had decades of peeps moving from out-of-state to here changing the demographics esp political; most of the escapees I know are conservative thinking, if they don't have that mentality, they'd be large number that moved to CA then left again taking their brain rot everywhere they go

Nick Johnson, I thank you taking us on a tour to see what's going on in Honolulu!

Make sure to subscribe Nick and Mappy are getting close to 1 million. Thanks for the entertainment.

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

Yay!!

@patjones5723

Ай бұрын

Yesssss plzz-zz an Ty 😊 ❤🎉

Got married and spent 10 days there a years ago. North Shore was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. Breaks your heart to see what has to the locals.

@SMaamri78

Ай бұрын

Seems tourism is a double edged sword. It brings in money but it also brings so many more undersirable elements. To me, i'd rather live poor.

a hui hou, I made it 22 years. Then my son in CA was in a severe accident and I left to help care for him. My heart will always be in Hawaii.

@RawOlympia

Ай бұрын

You are so sweet to be there for your son! May he recover Godspeed!

@user-ns1sv9ux6y

Ай бұрын

@RawOlympia Keep him in your prayers. Name: Eli. He now has one arm and one leg has a rod in it so he wears orthopedic shoes and uses a cane. He'll fugure it out. I do though greatly miss Hawaii.

@RawOlympia

Ай бұрын

@@user-ns1sv9ux6y Eli is most definitely in my prayers, and you as well. He is fortunate to have you there, and soon hopefully you can at least pop in to smell the gardenias ~ may you be getting support during this time as well. Mahalo ~

@laurahiggins7647

Ай бұрын

I will keep you & Eli in my prayers. God bless​@@user-ns1sv9ux6y

I hippied around on Oahu and Maui in the late 60s. I worked at McDonald’s in Waikiki, and hung out at the International Market Place, and the Beach, where I could actually see all of Diamond Head. I rented a little place right near Kalakaua(?) Blvd, near the Zoo. I don’t remember a homeless population at all. Anyway, things sure are different, now. I’d never go back, I’d just get depressed.

Maybe if I put in more hours of overtime at my job at Wal-Mart I can finally achieve my dream of oceanfront property in Hawaii.

@GS-zc4sk

Ай бұрын

Absolutely. Just find a way to remain On The Clock 24hrs/day.

@ub3rskillz79

24 күн бұрын

Go back to school. Take risks. Fortune only favours the bold not Walmart employees.

@oheyitskayyyyyy

8 күн бұрын

Ocean front you're looking at a minimum of 4 mill and it'll be a condo for that price in a rougher part of town

Thanks for giving a great portrait of Hawaii , I just left after living 30 years there. As soon as I retired, I was gone. The state is suffering. So sad to see what has happened. Have no desire to go back. I really feel for the Kanaka and kaminas whom I left. Life is so difficult

@Cheezclown

Ай бұрын

Where did you go? Miss it?

@anthonydowling3356

Ай бұрын

Whats so bad about it ? other than high prices .

@rs5801

Ай бұрын

me as well after thirty years. Moved to Hi. from Ca. 1975. Construction tradesman. made good living and many good freinds there, retired in 2005, Aloha! sold up everything within two months, moved to Thailand. 19 yrs later can say that was best move I ever made. Second best was getting out of Ca. in 1975.🤙😊

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Ай бұрын

@@rs5801thailand is now just another white colony. And old boomerpedo paradise

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Ай бұрын

@@onthebeach77 Who cares bruh Hawaii is a colony turned into a theme park for mainland Americans

Nick, I hope you read this. Your editing, Storytelling and humor is probably nothing short of genius in my humble opinion. There really isn't any other format like this and I hope your honesty and funny approach will get you far and high in KZread and beyond, you probably deserve a Netflix or Amazon gig (idk why but Phil Rosenberg comes to mind and Steve Irwin and Anthony Bourdain, that kind of caliber). What a great documentary Style, 5 minutes in but I'll have to watch the rest another time.

Hawaii is a place you want to visit and see as much of it as you can, but once youve done it you are ready to leave and have no real desire to go back. Great job showing us this state.

@lizannezisa436

Ай бұрын

10000% true. One times enough.

@andrewheitmeyer9945

28 күн бұрын

He showed you Honolulu and Waikiki Beach. He didn’t show you the state. Kauai, Molokai, Big Island are light years different

@TheRedDevil_NC

28 күн бұрын

@@andrewheitmeyer9945 thats true but give Nick a break. He does a great job. Its cool he went there to show us how the place has changed with the influx or whites over the years. Kauai is not as bad as Oahu and Molokai is how Oahu was 50 years ago. They dont want any haoles on Molokai but the tourist dollar is just too enticing for the locals so its getting ruined too. The big island is just a trash dump with some more wide open spaces.

@gsch1818

14 күн бұрын

What’s place is better according to y’all ?

My BIL was a firefighter on Oahu & his wife was native. They lived in Haleiwa & I was so lucky that they took me all over the island, except avoided Honolulu, so this is my first look at it. What a well-made video this is! Congratulations, Nick Johnson, my IE brother, nearly at one million👍

"my viewers don't wanna see clean & improved" 😅😂

@1700yungin

Ай бұрын

I mean… a lot of us don’t 😂

@turtleanton6539

Ай бұрын

Is true🎉

@turtleanton6539

Ай бұрын

​@@1700yungin he knoes his fanbase😊

@Mr._Infamous

Ай бұрын

Really says something about the human condition, doesn't it? It's ludicrous and absurd. Apparently, there are two kinds of humans on this planet. Those with empathy... and those without.

@realbeautyness25

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Spent 3 years in Oahu 88 to 91, single, US Navy, had my first car, drove around, relaxed at North Shore, tutored school kids, ran the Aloha Run, participated in parades. Rented a condo unit in Pearl City, with a hot tub. Enjoyed every minute.

Good video... I have absolutely no desire to visit Honolulu after watching.

I was thinking of going there this year for the first time but after watching this video, I'm going to use that money to buy a truck instead.

That neighborhood that ya'll drove through where the rich people live is where my daughter rented a house while she was stationed there. The house she rented also had the owners house on the same lot. They had built it for their son and he moved away, so they just rented it out to military folks. Beautiful view from that home!

Hey Nick! I live 20 miles away in a town on the West Side called Ewa Beach. I'm originally from San Diego, but I've been here for 20 years. It's an acquired taste and expensive as hell, but it has it's moments. Enjoy your visit.

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

I saw Ewa!

@mellowmoods8393

Ай бұрын

@@NickJohnson Did you check out the brand new wave pool that was just built this last year here in Ewa? That whole area next to the beach is starting to come together and they have some great plans for it to make it an island destination. Here and next door in Kapolei is where 80% of Oahu's future growth is going. Ewa is mostly a just a bedroom community right now where everyone commutes to "Town", but growth here in Ewa and in Oahu's "Second City" in Kapolei is where everything is popping up. We just finally got a Chick-Filet-A this year!

Scooters - you don't need a driver's license is why you see them everywhere - many of those people can't get a license or insurance. My brother lives in Makawao on Maui.

@Mr._Infamous

Ай бұрын

Do they have commercial fisheries out there?

Nice to hear Richard's viewpoint on daily island life. I grew up on O'ahu and intended on returning to retire there. However, living on the mainland has given me a greater appreciation of open spaces and four distinct seasons. I do miss the local food, however.

@VvvnimaL

Ай бұрын

Other islands in hawaii have tons of open space

@Jacklyn-zc8dc

Ай бұрын

He fell for the "climate change" scam tho. 😅

@ecebear3

Ай бұрын

@@VvvnimaLbut the healthcare sucks on those neighbor islands

One final thought: My empathy is for the local people that were born here. They now have to compete with all the newcomers for resources. They are not just priced out of paradise but surviving is even more competitive.

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

Richard!! So much run riding around!! Take care buddy!

@richardjohnson9254

Ай бұрын

@@NickJohnson Happy trails to you Nick. I look forward to your future posts and travels!

@Bigfoots777

23 күн бұрын

About like that now in any beach town in USA . One of dad's Navy friends in WWII got to HA , they were looking for someone who could type . He spent the whole war typing up rent receipts ,

The traffic in Honolulu is the worst I have ever seen and I drive in Houston all the time!

My son does tourism work , and worked out in Kaui HI for a couple of months. He stated there were a lot of homeless people, and many of them came from other states.

We were lucky enough to be allowed to see the beyond beautiful mosaics in the Punchbowl. The beauty of that place will take your breath away❤

@ginajones2328

Ай бұрын

In Alaska so much beauty. Stay away from the cities ! Hawaiians and Alaska have similar problems 😢$$$$ almost unaffordable

I love your tour guide, he married a Filipina! His description of macaroni and mayo is on point gross😂😂

I tried to sleep at a homeless center in Charlotte NC, it had a crummy shower but I used it. I woke up at midnight & left because the whole place smelled like feet.

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

🦶 🦶

@ginajones2328

Ай бұрын

🙀😷💤🫶🌴🌴🐖

2018 Kauai broke the global 24 hr rainfall record of just over 20 in. I was in my car that night and drove to the top of Wailua falls where the opening montage for Fantasy Island was filmed. The falls ran high that morning, I have pictures.

@RawOlympia

Ай бұрын

glad you weren't swept away, had a friend who lost his car but he escaped it!

My husband was in the Navy and he lived at Diamond head. Said back in the 80's things were high then .

When I was a kid I thought Hawaii was like Gilligan Island with a few more people on it until the 1968 tv show Hawaii Five 0 i was shocked by it and what I see today is still not what I expected

@kento7899

Ай бұрын

Magnum PI too. I learned Hawaii is just as run down urban as other places.

@FirstPremiumChannel

Ай бұрын

Gilligan's Island is in Kaneohe Bay Li Dat Brah. Windward side

@skyh

Ай бұрын

I expect it, it's a blue state.

Watching this is so bittersweet. It brought up such good memories of my 2 years living there. 1985 to 1987. I worked in Waikiki. I lived first in Eva Beach, then in Manoa, then on Nuuanu and Vineyard. Used to drink at a place called the Nuuanu lounge right across from my bus stop after work. It is sad to see what it has become. Still one of tge most beautiful places I lived. Great food, great weed, good people and a beautiful culture. I had a local boyfriend, he owned his own business. He started doing that meth crap, he called it ICE. Changed and addicted him so quickly. He became an ex very fast. It was a problem in that time. Sad it's gotten worse. Thanks for the video

@jameskarins1717

13 күн бұрын

Ewa*

Been here 10 years Nick, brilliant review. Spot on. It's only the weather that keeps us here. My biggest complaint is that people have to save for a lifetime to visit and then the bars close at 10pm and they have to eat from a food truck or stand in a soup line on Kuhio because who can afford $100/plate restsurants as yiu said? It is a horror show here Nick. You nailed it. The real homes are owned by people that mostly brought wealth with them. Me included. Tell your friend to shop for groceries at Costco and Sam's.

@richardjohnson9254

Ай бұрын

I do Costco once a month.

Very interesting video, Thank you Nick

Aloha Nick! I first was in Hawaii in 1969 as a kid. Moved on to live in Perth West Australia and came back to Hawaii in 1997 and we bought a farm on the Big Island south of Hilo on the Kalapana Coast. There was not much of any homeless then or much crime and we actually had a Republican governor. As time went by the new left wing government moved Micros into the State and gave them freebies while Hawaiians were living in poverty and homeless. Same as now how the Biden open border brings in privileged illegals who get free government handouts especially in Sanctuary cities. Foreigners mostly from Asia have driven up the cost of real estate and add in Californians as well. The locals now can't afford a home and many send their kids to the mainland to go to college and live. It is a marxist government with lots of dependents who keep voting for welfare. TIP OF THE DAY: The key to affordability I found out was to buy property zoned AG. A five acre farm with a 3bed 3bath home with two out buildings a mile from the beach property tax is less than $5000 a year. Rural is affordable but there are not the luxuries of Waikiki and less job ops. MAHALO!

@rs1107

Ай бұрын

😎Great Island Reality Check😎

We've been visiting Oahu for close to 20 years and slowly it has lost the old school flavor that we appreciated so much. The International Marketplace was only renovated a few years ago. Used to be very cool small local businesses and that old postcard flavor. Now it's just like another high end mall, but at least they kept the Banyan trees inside! We usually always go in May or Sept. Yeah, it's expensive, but you can save some $$ by staying in older places, eating cheaper like food trucks and local places, and shopping for souvenirs, clothing, etc at Aloha Stadium swap Meet. Much cheaper prices than Waikiki shops, and despite the name it's mostly vendors selling new merch. Good to see an update, and nice to see it cleaned up a bit.

The girl at 13:48 is a chronic drug abuser. I used to work in Waikiki and she was one of the regulars down there. She used to get clean after a hospital stint and a few days later she would be high as a kite and eating out of the trash. During COVID, the drug problem in Waikiki got especially bad. You could see the homeless buying meth every Sunday in brown paper bags from a guy sitting across from the beach. The Police would often arrest these people and release them the next day.

@ManannanmacLir69

Ай бұрын

You reported the dealer to the police?

@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth

Ай бұрын

@@ManannanmacLir69 The dealer was probably up to date with his monthly fees.

@sethroberts634

Ай бұрын

Crime isn't really crime in Democrat states. Isn't that what you guys vote for? You can keep your state, I wouldn't even visit😂

@TydiriumPilot

Ай бұрын

@@sethroberts634 good thing I'm not a Democrat! 🤡

@TydiriumPilot

Ай бұрын

@@sethroberts634 Good thing I'm not a Democrat! Lol.

Nick, “Richard I gotta say you are the jerkiest driver…” 😂

OMG! Nick you're awesome.. 47:45 down that street to the left, is the street I grew up on for 25 years. that big building is called Mott smith where I used to fold newspapers I delivered in that garage, and you're driving the exact path I took to Roosevelt high school where you are turning the right on.. I haven't seen that in 3 decades, Wow.. Thank You..

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

What??? Wow!! ❤️❤️

Duke Kahanamoku statue is in Waikiki, not a king but an Olympic Swimmer, surfing and beach ambassador.

2:42 I stayed in that pink hotel for a week. My aunt worked for the company for 25 years and got me a super deal. I haven’t been there since but I sometimes look at google earth to remember. This drone shot it beautiful it brought back the memories. Thank you!

Been in Hawaii 55 years ago.. Thanks to the US Navy! Beautiful. Everday is a holiday in Hawaii.

Haven't been to Honolulu in a decade, but the bus system used to be fantastic

That Kona Light Blonde Ale is such a good beer. I'm glad you got to enjoy that moment. Well done.

Lived there seven years in Waikiki, loved the energy, people, shops, food, etc. Friday nite entertainment, music, fireworks. Amateur eating contest at the food court! Used to be some fine break dancers and rappers also back in the day near intl mkt place.

I don't remember seeing chickens having free rein in Honolulu. However, I do remember seeing them in Key West, all over the place.

When I lived in Manoa, it rained everyday around 3. Rainforest area. Manoa means Rainbow, very fitting

@johnlopezjr.8481

Ай бұрын

Anuenue means Rainbow 🌈 and Manoa is the name of the place

@barbarahorn7748

Ай бұрын

@@johnlopezjr.8481 cool, guess my boyfriend at the time lied to me. He grew up in Manoa. Here I am 30 years later pissed off at a dude for lieing. Thank you for setting me straight.

@johnlopezjr.8481

29 күн бұрын

@barbarahorn7748 just sharing my native Hawai'ian language

Great video! I loved the drive with Richard. I couldn’t stand being with all the crowds of people everywhere

We visited Oahu back in mid-May. It rained every day - sometimes causing flash floods, mudslides and road closures. It was crazy but we still had a great time. Spent about an hour in a gully washer at Waikiki and just stayed in the water while it rained. The most surprising thing was how run-down certain areas were. That's the part you never see in travel guides and for a good reason. Great vid, Nick. Sorry about the Wolfpack - they had a great season!

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

🐺

Wow, nothing like I imagined. Its just like everywhere else.

@Native2Earth

27 күн бұрын

Honolulu is like everywhere else. Big Island and Kauai feel much different 🤙🏾

@jameskarins1717

13 күн бұрын

He literally went to the worst areas

Hawaiian Collector's Edition SPAM? Classic!

Lived in Kalama Valley in 83 and 84 about 30 minutes from downtown Honolulu which was great, tourists were far enough away. Geckos on the walls, close to Sandy’s beach and Koko Head. Loved it!!

@GreenCanvasInteriorscape

22 күн бұрын

I'm Kaiser 83, sup

Exotic lands and far away places, who couldn't love Hawaii but Nick it sure is a far cry from Appalachia 😁 I think I saw the SS Minnow in that harbor @ 11:00 - I hope you took your better half with you .

You nailed one of the best secrets of enjoyment in Hawaii… early morning beach is the way, before the wind and people

"Cause you guys are weird." 😂 hilarious. I enjoy all your videos. ❤

Great video very interesting the lei was so pretty. The water was nice interesting talk with the driver thanks for sharing

Nick - your Hawaii series is both cracking me up, making me cry with nostalgic love for my second home, and giving me such wonderful feelings of warm Aloha! Brah! Please go down to The Harbor Pub, right at the foot of Hobron, at the Marina, and have one of the best pizzas in the Islands - my favorite place to just hang out on a lazy afternoon.

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

Ok Ed!

I left Hawaii in 1998. Never looked back, no regrets. Most of my relatives moved up here too. Nice big houses and property is multi-generational

@Handpicked1971

25 күн бұрын

Where’s “here”?

@desertbrewcrew1974

25 күн бұрын

@@Handpicked1971 Nevada

@Handpicked1971

24 күн бұрын

@@desertbrewcrew1974 👌

A+ video! Awesome overview and explanation about the area!

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

Knew you'd like it!

Thanks for the tip about the Bamboo hotel! If I ever make it over to Hawaii, I'm definitely going to check that place out!!

Loving it Nick. I hope your having fun.

ALOHA! Used to teach at Kahalu'u on the other side - have a great time! Plenty of drama, indeed! Book 'em Dano!

This Here Nick is what we call in the Rough and Rowdy Ways of Rock and Roll as a Gem, Yes Nick, Another Gem

What a weird place. Next island please.

This was interesting thank you .

I live on oahu now. I've been here just over a year and still love it. It's interesting to see an outsiders perspective after you've been here awhile and and they point out things you just get used to. You definitely have to avoid the tourist trap areas and be here longer than a week to really appreciate this place.

Alright Really Glad To See You Back In Hawaii, I Have Never Seen Really Any Places And The Sites And Stories Were Amazing, Nice To Meet Your Buddy Richard, You Kinda Directed His Driving, Loved It!

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

Richard is a great guy!

Your videos are among the best and most entertaining ones on this site. Great camera work and commentary, and your sense of humor is hilarious. Thanks!

When people can't afford the rent anymore, this is what happens. Honolulu is one extreme example of this - no news here. I also recently saw a documentary on the epidemic of empty high end housing in New York City. What is the logic of having prices so high that no one can afford to live there and the buildings are empty?

@RawOlympia

Ай бұрын

many are owned by Chinese, Arabs, and other rich speculators from other nations - like 60 percent of luxe in NYc is that ~

@Hammster69official

Ай бұрын

@@RawOlympia That could be a reason - China has built entire megacities of empty buildings on their own soil.

@RawOlympia

Ай бұрын

@@Hammster69official it's utterly bizarre, but those were the stats we got at work - yes, like those eerie megacities indeed!

@yelizaveta1278

Ай бұрын

Logic left town and was replaced with a greedy, optimistic attitude saying , but " if we build it, they will come!" Forget about the actual citizens , everyday folks keeping things running , trying to make an honest living , survive, and or support loved ones It'll work out! they'll figure it out!

@captseamus

Ай бұрын

Few Hawaiians own any businesses in the Honolulu city... Foreigners!

Thanks for the video Nick & everyone, Regards Simon from Adelaide Australia 🇦🇺🐨

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

🦘

Fun video Nick glad to see I’m not missing anything here in my comfy bunker deep in Appalachia.

Hawaiian Government be like, "Oh snap! We better clean up the streets! There's a tourist coming who's also a YT'er who loves to show the bad side of cities! We're not L.A. or Oakland, we're Hawaii!!!" Did Nick ever go to the Battleship Arizona Memorial & Museum?

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

I did not Chad.

@rickylee2477

Ай бұрын

@@NickJohnsonit’s cool. Not worth a special trip tho.

“my viewers wanna see bad and misery cause you guys are weird”!😆Well,we want to know all the places to avoid because we like keeping it real ;)

Awesome video 🙌

I went through lots of crazy shit living in Honolulu as a sailor including getting rolled by gangsters wandering around drunk after a chief’s retirement party, living on Hotel Street where all the hookers were, and even attending Holy Communion at the Episcopalian St. Andrew’s Cathedral which is quite impressive where the future presiding bishop of the Episcopal church was the then bishop of Hawaii or Edmund Browning. The goofiest thing I ran into was an old Chinese tailor on Hotel Street across the street from Wo Fat’s who was entirely oblivious to the 1970s navy uniform change and still had a shop stocked with the antique crackerjack sailor suits so I bought a set of melton wool dress blues with a QM3 crow since the old uniforms were being reinstated at that time, albeit in more modern fabrics. But speaking of homelessness there is one way in which it is perfectly feasible to be a bum in Hawaii and that’s by buying an old sailboat on the west coast of the mainland USA and sailing to the Hawaiian Islands to loiter in all the little anchorages which dot the archipelago where on islands such as Lanai and Molokai nobody will bother you provided you keep moving on to the next anchorage every now and then. We had a SONAR tech on the USS John Marshall known as Gary who would rent a 41 foot Viking sailboat and take a party of shipmates to Maui for several days. And anchored out at Maui was a small colony of hippie deviants who were living in the tiniest sailboats you could imagine including 18 foot lightnings, and other vessels mostly less than 28 feet in length. But there they were, driftoids apparently without a care in the world dodging the man and paying no rent.

Yes, I’m weird😄 I love your channel!👏

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

We're all a little weird 😀

Good car-and-talk with your friend Richard …. The age-old question continues to go unanswered … How do so many people make the big bucks?

@scsback1205

17 күн бұрын

That’s the literal “million dollar ?”

Thanks again for your update.

This brings back many memories as I lived in Waikiki for 7 years and had been regularly going there for many more years. Everything is true what you are sharing. Loved love the beaches, the surf and the weather and met many friends as well Crime and homeless is also ongoing

Once native Honolulu-ans tire of the city, and they can scrounge up enough money, they move to Honolulu East aka Las Vegas. 😂 Hey Nick, another well-thought of social commentary video. I've moved from San Jose, CA to LV and man, are there a lot of people here who moved from Hawaii.

Just moved back on island after 2 years gone, and i see this video pop up. Enjoy yourself Nick. I got almost 20 yrs here and can definitely offer more insight if needed. Been watching your content for a few years, the commentary is always on point.

Thank you for Mappy and Mrs. Mappy! You’re the best, Nick!

My favorite Spam recipe. Take a small block of rubber then dye it pink, salt it down add some bacon flavoring then put it in a can.

Ghettos in cities are boring. Ghettos in Paradise, that's interesting !

@diancecht4566

Ай бұрын

Not really...NO they're not interesting and NO it's NOT Paradise. That's a lie. I know, I lived there for 3 years...

@hoibsh21

Ай бұрын

@@diancecht4566 Palm trees on a beach with the blue sparkling ocean = Paradise !

Being stuck on an island thousands of miles away from anything would get old quick. Sounds like a prison to me.

@mariasunshine6968

Ай бұрын

I met a Hawaiian living in Vegas who said something similar. He called it Island fever. LOL It gets old real quick.

Always comical and that’s why I’m here.

Lived on Oahu from 1999 to 2013. Enjoying seeing so many of the places I remember .

I grew up vacationing to Honolulu, usually going to Waikiki. I'm excited to show this video to my wife. It's sad to see the difference in priorities my parents had for vacation and what I would prioritize for my three young girls now. (I'm sober) We always pronounced it Hahn-oh, never heard Ho-no

@rickylee2477

Ай бұрын

Ho-No is correct.

I went to Oahu in 1998 with two friends and my cousin. It was expensive back then. We thought we saw a dead man in Chinatown, but he was just passed out. Chinatown wasnt that bad then, but still a little shady. I can't imagine prices on food or gas now, it was umGodly high then. Beautiful place, but I could never live there. 🤙

Very interesting video as usual. I wish you’d come and do the UK too.

I bought all my Hawaiian souvenirs from SEARS when it was still open. 🤑

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

Loved Sears!

Good morning Nick, this has been quite the eye opener I must say. I was wondering what the big hill was behind the million dollar house at the end then yah mate said it was the crater mystery solved. It's crazy how busy the beaches are then here I am in new Zealand walking along a beach all to myself lol only a bunch of Surfers waiting for that perfect set or a dog walker strolling by. In my hometown there is so so much drift wood along one of the beaches now that it's not so safe anymore. After 100 year storms two years ago it's crazy how much woods still washing up. But then the other beach is nothing just as it was. I always pictured alot of Hawaii as island and just nice houses but nothing over the top, almost like Fiji or the islands around here, But nope holy moly cotton candy was I so wrong. Thanks for the fun tikitour Have a blessed rest of your week. And Mrs managers orchid thing looked super cool, Forgot the name of the necklace

@NickJohnson

Ай бұрын

Lei!

@UrbanKiwiana

Ай бұрын

@NickJohnson +That's the one thanks Nick..me memory is terrible.