Big island is cheap. Hard to find work though.
I do NOT want to live where there are a ZILLION bugs who want to suck my blood supply dry.
Also, the locals and natives always got the best deals on everthing...it seemed.
My grandparents lived in Phoenix and we visited them every two years. They DID have WONderful fruit trees on their one acre of land and that was VERY nice but...the blood-sucking bugs were NOT my cup of tea. Besides wearing insect repellent all the time wasn't nice either.
When we lived in Saudi Arabia the Saudis SPRAYED like there was no tomorrow. No bugs...none. Just imagine what it was like before they became one one the world's wealthiest countries. Going from one of the world's POOREST to one of the world's wealthiest in one generation.
I can't imagine what it was like to live there BEFORE. Ugh. Imagine the heat with NO A/C.
NOW they keep their offices at 60 degrees. Brrr. I had to wear a thick Irish sweater when I worked.
Then home. We kept our home there at 70 degrees. AC was free. Duh.
When they were their normal dirt poor people, before all the petroleum and natural gas boon, the Saudis used to sleep all day in their tents and then get up and go out at sunset.