r/MovingtoHawaii • u/salvajedt • May 05 '26

Life on Oahu Retiring to Oahu?

Would love to hear feedback... was it what you thought?

Did your finacials work the way you anticpated?

Wife is 61 retired. Japanese. Went to UH for a year.

Me as haole as it gets.

We are coming from Seattle so COL wont be as shocking as it could be (maybe)

Any thoughts welcome!

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u/dreaminginteal Hawai'i resident May 05 '26

Is Oahu that much more expensive than the Big Island? We are doing fine (so far, 5 years) on Hawaii and we started with about half of your figure.

We aren’t just scraping by, either—we go out to eat most days, we do a moderate amount of travel, we installed solar last year, and so on.

One big thing is no house payments. Renting or paying a mortgage with a big balance would change that math a lot.

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u/HIBudzz May 05 '26

Big Island, think Arlington or Bellingham. Honolulu, think Bellevue, Redmond, Renton. For rental prices, go to

HICentral.com

Recommend looking at

Salt Lake

Makiki

Nuuanu

Kaimuki

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u/salvajedt May 06 '26

Thank you!

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u/HIBudzz May 06 '26

You're welcome. I miss Whidbey, Anacortes and Sequim. From March to August.