Hawaii

[NoMoreJuice!]

I'm seriously considering moving to Hawaii...full time care in a daycare home is going for between 550 and 650 a week for ONE CHILD!! That's between 28,000 and 33,000 for only one child...and you can have 10!

As an added bonus: no more shoveling snow!! Who's in?

Retirement in Hawaii at 40...a girl can dream, right?

[SilverSabre25]

I'll go....

[Laurel]

I'm seriously considering moving to Hawaii...full time care in a daycare home is going for between 550 and 650 a week for ONE CHILD!! That's between 28,000 and 33,000 for only one child...and you can have 10!

As an added bonus: no more shoveling snow!! Who's in?

Retirement in Hawaii at 40...a girl can dream, right?

Check into rent first.

[llpa]

It was 12 degrees at my house this morning and I'm makin a few bucks an hr... Heck YES!!!!happyface

[childcaremom]

Me, me! We are supposed to get 40-50 cm of snow on Wednesday.

Get me out of here

[MotherNature]

I looked on cl-and they're advertising ft and pt rates by the number of days per month. I think that rate is for the month...

[Blackcat31]

Summer weather ALL year??

No thanks....

I'm happy where I am.

[Starburst]

The only thing is that in Hawaii there isn't really a "middle class", you're pretty much either rich or poor.

I had an ex-roommate who was Hawaiian (she also worked as a nanny and was planning on doing family child care) and she would always talk about Hawaiian culture and she said thats one of the main reasons she doesn't live there.

[blandino]

Summer weather ALL year??

No thanks....

I'm happy where I am.

Ditto. Warm temps and I are not BFFs. I would take the money though.

[butterfly]

I looked on cl-and they're advertising ft and pt rates by the number of days per month. I think that rate is for the month...

yep, that's a monthly fee not a weekly fee - but hey, if we're dreaming.... ::

[KidGrind]

I'm seriously considering moving to Hawaii...full time care in a daycare home is going for between 550 and 650 a week for ONE CHILD!! That's between 28,000 and 33,000 for only one child...and you can have 10!

As an added bonus: no more shoveling snow!! Who's in?

Retirement in Hawaii at 40...a girl can dream, right?

If you get there, I’ll be happy for you! With minor children I can’t, the school system ****s there right now.

[Unregistered]

Hawaii

Keep in mind everything in the grocery store starts at minimumof $3.00 per item.Everything not grown on island must be shipped in.

[NoMoreJuice!]

what??

I feel so dumb! I read an ad that said the rates, and that full time was 45 and part time was 25 hours per week. I assumed, because I knew the cost of living can be triple what it is here, that it was a weekly rate (but still thought it sounded too good to be true!). Guess I'll keep dealing with the snow here rather than make peanuts and have to live in a cardboard box there! How can they afford to charge less than I do and pay $6 for a gallon of milk? Crazy.

So my dream is dead. Need a new one.

[daycarediva]

Dang, that stinks it's monthly! It's less than what I charge. I pay $6 for a gallon of organic milk.

[sharlan]

My niece was born and raised there, part Hawaiian.

The cost of living is astronomical. EVERYTHING is so expensive.

The school system is really bad.

I had her for a year while she was in high school and was shocked. I swear they have their own language. I wasn't sure if her spelling or writing was the worst.

It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there full time unless I was retired with an unlimited income.