I had to leave - I was just out of high school (literally by days) when the Air Force moved my father on.
I would have left anyway. Paradise has a huge price tag and very few jobs.
And bugs from Hell. I liked the Geckos. I didn't like the flying, 3 inch roaches, the scorpions, the cane spiders, and I ESPECIALLY didn't like the 12-18 inch centipedes that bite. All of which get in your house. We had a cockroach give birth in our toaster and once the kitchen ceiling was in explicably covered in red ants. (They were gone by morning.) The roaches land on you if you walk around your house at night in the dark.
Unless you have a high enough income to live in a condo about 30 floors from the ground where they spray death chemicals all the time - they are everywhere.
I moved to Hawaii with a mild fear of spiders. I left with a bug phobia that took over 10 years to get down to something mostly rational. I still hate centipedes.
The beaches are nice. But the ones in Oregon are almost as nice.
I do miss the flowers - especially the plumaria trees and the hibiscus. I also really miss the big melting pot the culture is. The food is incredible.
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I would have left anyway. Paradise has a huge price tag and very few jobs.
And bugs from Hell. I liked the Geckos. I didn't like the flying, 3 inch roaches, the scorpions, the cane spiders, and I ESPECIALLY didn't like the 12-18 inch centipedes that bite. All of which get in your house. We had a cockroach give birth in our toaster and once the kitchen ceiling was in explicably covered in red ants. (They were gone by morning.) The roaches land on you if you walk around your house at night in the dark.
Unless you have a high enough income to live in a condo about 30 floors from the ground where they spray death chemicals all the time - they are everywhere.
I moved to Hawaii with a mild fear of spiders. I left with a bug phobia that took over 10 years to get down to something mostly rational. I still hate centipedes.
The beaches are nice. But the ones in Oregon are almost as nice.
I do miss the flowers - especially the plumaria trees and the hibiscus. I also really miss the big melting pot the culture is. The food is incredible.