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One thing I still can't get used to,
though, is the 45-mile top speed limit
enforced on the Jsland.
We soon learned how to dress for
Hawaii. I wear a white shirt, and
tie to work with slacks, but no coat.
My Winter suit and my topcoat have
never been unpacked.
Jean was reluctant to try on a Ha
waiian muumuu, sort of a jazzed-up
mother hubbard. Now she wears hard
ly anything else around the house. As
for Chris, he hasn't had a pair of shoes
on, except for going to church, in
three months nor had a cold for the
past six. His standard costume is a
T shirt and shorts. '
We soon discovered that while prices
are high on most things, you save on
others. Our house requires no heating,
car insurance is half what I paid before,
and we spend less on clothes.
Nobody in our family has ever shown
much inclination toward gardening. But
the lush growth in our yard stirred
some latent instinct deep within us.
Jean went right out and acquired
some orchid plants, hung them up in the
carport, watered them for a month,
then forgot them when the symphony
season opened. One day as I was back
ing out on my way to work, I noticed
the plants had sprouted an incredibly
beautiful spray of delicate orchids.
My big experiment outdoors was with
coconut trees. I found some nuts and
decided to let them sprout for planting.
A neighbor said it would take two
years for them to sprout. The first
shoots appeared in a few months. I
have now planted eight coconut trees
and feel like Johnny Appleseed.
In addition to orchids and coconut
trees, we have, an enormous bougain
villea bush that covers the front of the
carport with red blossoms year-round,
pandanus trees sheltering the front of
the house, and a forest of banyan and
hau trees for Chris to climb in and
swing on in back. For the first few
months after we moved in, we made
breakfast out of the delicious papayas
I picked in "the back yard.
There's one disadvantage in living
where things grow so easily: mowing
the lawn is a year-round chore. Last
Christmas I gave myself a power mow
er, our first big buy since the cars.
These are two economy-sized Fiat
600s. We need two cars because our
pace, in spite of the easygoing climate,
is faster than it was in Buffalo. In Hon
olulu I work an eight-hour day. I
worked seven hours before. I was only
two miles from the office in Buffalo, It
now takes me half an hour to drive to
work over a four-lane highway. And
Jean is constantly on the go, driving to
school or to a concert or rehearsal.
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Hawaii's sports and scenery are famed,
but it has cultural facilities, too.
As a result, we've never been aware
of an intellectual stagnation that some
people warned us about. Frankly, I'm
no intellect, anyway. That's more in
Jean's line. But she tells me that, as
far as music is concerned, Honolulu is
more cosmopolitan than Buffalo.
As for myself, I think Honolulu's two',
daily newspapers, morning and eve
ning, compare favorably with those we
read in Buffalo. The same holds for
Honolulu's eight radio stations and
three TV channels. The only difference
is that TV shows are mailed to Hawaii
on film for delayed showing.
Things are looking up for us now. Af
ter several salary increases, I now earn
more than $5,000 a year. Recently, I
topped all other salesmen in a com
pany-wide sales contest in competition
with our men on the West Coast. That
indicates how much Hawaii is booming.
More and more new businesses are
springing up, and the pace is expected
to increase now that we've become a
state. A new oil refinery and a pro
jected industrial electronics laboratory
for work on missile contracts will open
jobs for technicians.
In my own field, the economic cli
mate is excellent. Within five years
I'm sure I'll be making a better salary
than if I'd stayed in Buffalo.
Our house is up for sale now because
the long drive over the mountain pass
is too much for our heavy schedule.
One of our first considerations in this
house hunt is to settle in an area that
is closer to my job and near a good
public school. As in Buffalo, apparently
some of the public schools are better
than others. As far as we know, their
standards equal the mainland's.
Right now, both Jean and I are so
delighted with Hawaii that you couldn't
drag us away. True, we had to take a
cut- in our standard of living while I
worked into a new job; but that will
soon change. Then we'll be living better
than we could have dreamed of in Buf
' falo. Why, we have a beautiful beach
just a few blocks away, which we're
perfectly welcome to use any time.
Our friends in Buffalo are green with
envy. Even before we left they said, "I
wish I had the courage to do what
you're doing." Several couples were
supposed to follow us after we got set
tled. They never did. But if they had,
they would have found that moving to
Hawaii is worth every ounce of effort
and every cent of the cost.
After initial hard times, Tom now looks forward to sharing in Hawaiian boom.
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