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So here's the story...
Currently my wife and I live in San Diego and we live comfortably with the money we make (approx 80k/year). We dont own a home out here (renting at 1200/month) because of the bills we currently have... the biggest being my student loans (900 per month payment). The way we're paying off our bills, we could afford to own a home in 4-5 years. Anyways, given all that background information, here's the fun stuff.
The wife works in a dental office with the head dentist and 4 other "lesser dentists" (for lack of a better term). Anyways, one of these lesser dentists used to live in Hawaii and wants to move back. In order to do so, he is in the process of buying a dental practice up there where he will keep all the patients that were preiously there (2000+ patients). Realizing how much of an asset my wife is to the current dental office (she literally is responsible for single handedly bringing in/keeping half of the patients there), he wants her to work for him in Hawaii and has offered to pay her 72k/year and only has to work 4 days a week. I don't remember for sure, but I'm pretty sure he said the practice is in Maui. Soooooo... the question is, should we do it and why/why not?
We've already come up with a few pros & cons for it... feel free to add more or inform us of things we might not have thought of.
Pros:
1)
... we're in Hawaii. People dream of iving here their whole life and we actually have the chance to.
2) Wife gets paid almost what we make between the two of this. This means that I can get a little part time job to pay to go back to school and become a pharmacist.
3) Right now I drive 62 miles each way to/from work. This really eats up gas and puts ear & tear on my car. Is Maui even that big across?? Even if gas is more expensive up there, we'd still be saving on car costs.
4) The weather is great.
Cons:
1) Any vacation we take is really freakin expensive. There's no such thing as a road trip, so you have to fly anywhere you want to go. That's easily $350/person just for plane tickets.
2) Options seem like they would be kind of limited. I mean, out here if you don't like a restaurant, store, etc., you simly keep driving and find the next. Out there, how many places can you possibly fit on an island?
3) Since the majority of stuff has to be imported, everything is more expensive.
4) Our daughter has regular petite mal seizures (no flailing around... just little trembles while she looks like she's spacing out) with a grand mal (the ones where she flails around for 20-30 minutes) 1-2 times per year. She just moved in with her boyfriend but still depends on us to make sure she's doing okay. If we moved, she would not be able to come with us. We don't know how she'd be able to do on her own.
Questions:
1) How big is Maui
2) How is the cost of living compared to Southern California
3) How is rush hour traffic
4) How many colleges are out there
5) What kind of gaming options are available (GS/EB/GC/GR/Blockbuster/BB/CC, etc.)
Currently my wife and I live in San Diego and we live comfortably with the money we make (approx 80k/year). We dont own a home out here (renting at 1200/month) because of the bills we currently have... the biggest being my student loans (900 per month payment). The way we're paying off our bills, we could afford to own a home in 4-5 years. Anyways, given all that background information, here's the fun stuff.
The wife works in a dental office with the head dentist and 4 other "lesser dentists" (for lack of a better term). Anyways, one of these lesser dentists used to live in Hawaii and wants to move back. In order to do so, he is in the process of buying a dental practice up there where he will keep all the patients that were preiously there (2000+ patients). Realizing how much of an asset my wife is to the current dental office (she literally is responsible for single handedly bringing in/keeping half of the patients there), he wants her to work for him in Hawaii and has offered to pay her 72k/year and only has to work 4 days a week. I don't remember for sure, but I'm pretty sure he said the practice is in Maui. Soooooo... the question is, should we do it and why/why not?
We've already come up with a few pros & cons for it... feel free to add more or inform us of things we might not have thought of.
Pros:
1)
... we're in Hawaii. People dream of iving here their whole life and we actually have the chance to.2) Wife gets paid almost what we make between the two of this. This means that I can get a little part time job to pay to go back to school and become a pharmacist.
3) Right now I drive 62 miles each way to/from work. This really eats up gas and puts ear & tear on my car. Is Maui even that big across?? Even if gas is more expensive up there, we'd still be saving on car costs.
4) The weather is great.
Cons:
1) Any vacation we take is really freakin expensive. There's no such thing as a road trip, so you have to fly anywhere you want to go. That's easily $350/person just for plane tickets.
2) Options seem like they would be kind of limited. I mean, out here if you don't like a restaurant, store, etc., you simly keep driving and find the next. Out there, how many places can you possibly fit on an island?
3) Since the majority of stuff has to be imported, everything is more expensive.
4) Our daughter has regular petite mal seizures (no flailing around... just little trembles while she looks like she's spacing out) with a grand mal (the ones where she flails around for 20-30 minutes) 1-2 times per year. She just moved in with her boyfriend but still depends on us to make sure she's doing okay. If we moved, she would not be able to come with us. We don't know how she'd be able to do on her own.
Questions:
1) How big is Maui
2) How is the cost of living compared to Southern California
3) How is rush hour traffic
4) How many colleges are out there
5) What kind of gaming options are available (GS/EB/GC/GR/Blockbuster/BB/CC, etc.)
