as others point out , super high costs of living ( the Jones Act)
It’s nice being somewhat removed from all the insanity that surges elsewhere , but at the same time we are not immune . No one over 40 has forgotten Pearl Harbor . I like to remind the youth . I like to remind Japanese ....
Pearl Harbor. Absolutely. We visited the Arizona. Very humbling.
I am worried that Americans have forgotten it and take it all for granted.
Scary times in our history, though.