Bari Bari Value tonight is about Japanese living in
Hawaii, and some idiot jobless 20 yr old woman with a
budget of 120,000 yen a month thought she could live
alone and rent a furnished apartment/condo on Waikiki
beach with an ocean view for $600 a month. She
allegedly went over with her 600,000 yen saved up,
intending to live for three months, and had no idea of
how much rent was, she thought she could go over and な
んとかなる。

If anybody could rent decent apartments in urban
Honolulu for $600, people wouldn't have to work two or
three jobs for the privilege of living in Hawaii, and
young people wouldn't have to leave in droves.* I could
live in Tokyo cheaper than in my own rural island
hometown and still make and save more money on one job.

*The next feature was a retired actress who seems to
have run off on the husband whom she conveniently met
and married in LA after she began having doubts about
Japanese society, because she insisted on living in
Hawaii, and lives in Kailua with her two kids. Kailua
is an upper middle class place which used to be popular
with professionals and Caucasians. As is typical of any
number of places in Hawaii, real estate values have
shot up 60 percent in just the past two years. (Real
estate prices go up about 25-33% per year in my rural
hometown, too, which is why the simple home my parents
bought in 1965 was worth 24 times as much about four
years ago, and why even they would not be able to buy
anything like it today.) God knows how that woman and
her family lives on her 400,000 yen a month near
Honolulu, which is about one third below average
household income in my rural county, or how the hell
she pays off a 46 million yen loan at US interest
rates.

And what's this BS at the end claiming that Hawaii does
not have 二世帯住宅, so one family had to design their
house themselves (it cost 200 million yen)? The way
Hawaii people who are not so rich are able to live is
precisely because two or even three or more generations
including siblings and their children might live in a
single house, or pack a number of houses onto one piece
of land their ancestors originally owned?