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Originally posted by blackmonsters
Yo AMP!
Why do you live on Maui?
Do you like big houses? Not much party places there is it?
Maybe you hob-nob with rich tourist?
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Actually, I have quite a few reasons.... some of them are,
I came here from the San Francisco Bay Area, and I left there because I was sick and tired of the city and all the freaking traffic. It used to take me 2 1/2 hours to get to work 15 miles away. So O'ahu is definately not where I wanna be.
Maui has more beaches than the other islands, and I think they're nicer as well.
We get far less rain on the south end here than O'ahu or Kaua'i.
There's nothing on Lana'i or Moloka'i and the Big Island doesn't interest me at all. I took a mini-vacation there last year, and yeah, the resort was nice, but still, nothing but lava for as far as the eye could see, and no beach.
Maui is more relaxed. We don't have freeways or skyscrapers or the local bad boy attitudes like O'ahu. Everyone here is friendly. It's so relaxed that when the celebs come to stay here right down the street at the Grand Wailea or the Fairmont Kea Lani, nobody bothers them. And that's why they come here. To get away and relax and have no one hounding them for autographs and interviews and shit. Britney Spears goes to the same nail salon my girlfriend goes to. We did a purchase loan on another house here for Sammy Hagar. Oprah is building a house here, Kris Kristoferson has a house up on the volcano, Kelsey Grammer (sp?) has a home here, Nick Cage comes here quite a bit, Helen Hunt, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Anthony Hopkins, etc.... and no one bothers them. That's a place where I want to live. Where no one bothers me. (granted I'm not a celeb, but you know what I mean)
It's more expensive here, and there are far less stores to choose from..... I have to order nearly everything online.... but everywhere has it's cons.... I think the pros of Maui far outweight the cons.
I like living right next to the beach here in Wailea. The area is beautiful. I can see the ocean from my deck, and walk to it in a minute. I couldn't do that on O'ahu.
Just a few of the reasons I love Maui.
