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• Yuko
• 2026/03/03 (Tue) 19:27
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MIKI

I guess you would think so if you are different ages and have lived in Hawaii.

I used to live in an old condo in Waikiki and someone who moved from NY said

the rent was $1500 cheaper than NY.

70% of the people I know are homeowners （ homeowners ）. Did you also know that 50% of Hawaii residents are homeowners ？

Affordable First Home Buyer, and you can buy new construction quite cheaply if you meet the requirements.

Everyone would rather live in a new condo than an old one, and some popular areas and sizes sell out in a week.

Do your research and see, if you plan to live in Hawaii for more than 10 years, it is better to buy.

If you sell it after 10 years, you will have lived there for 10 years for free.

Some people are saving money and buying their second property that way.

Someday when you retire, you won't be able to survive if your pension and your rental are the same amount or your rental is more expensive.

That's why there are so many old people homeless.

It depends on the information you get from your friends, partners and family, and your environment, but if no one around you is a homeowner

you can do your own research. Make the most of the deals that are available only to US residents.

• アッパーイーストサイド
• 2026/03/04 (Wed) 20:19
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Miki-san,

It is a capitalist country, isn't it? ？ Prices are determined by supply and demand, so as Miki-san pointed out, if 10,000 locals leave Oahu each year, there is a big possibility that rent prices will go down. I feel that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening in developed countries. I think it is not easy for them to survive because there are so many real estate brokers in Honolulu. I also read his article and did not think it was "insensitive". By the way, Hawaii has high real estate prices and prices are too high, but salaries are too low ？ Real estate is expensive in both SF and NY, but salaries are also high, so you can give up some of that. So, Miki, it might be a good idea for you to leave Hawaii once and work in the mainland to save money, and then return to Hawaii to acquire real estate ～.

• Mik
• 2026/03/05 (Thu) 14:10
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Well, it's capitalism.
Middle class ？ I don't care about the common man.
If you don't have money, you have to get off this island.
That's why some people from Hawaii are moving to Las Vegas. It is sad but this is the reality.

• Wai
• 2026/03/05 (Thu) 16:56
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If it were cheaper, people from all over the world would come to Hawaii to live there, and the population density and traffic would be very bad.
So it is becoming like a game of musical chairs, where only the rich can win the right to live on the island. It's like a game of musical chairs, where only the rich can win the right to live on the island. It's a real shame and I hate it, though.

• Banana
• 2026/03/05 (Thu) 17:11
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Hawaii is for rich people now. If you have the feeling of the old Hawaii, you will get sick. Well, I definitely prefer the old Hawaii of the common people.

• 激戦キンダーお受験
• 2025/11/13 (Thu) 10:58
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We were able to confirm last year's Kinder exam details for your reference ！

Punahou had 150 successful applicants, 20 waitlisted, and 693 examinees.
Iolani had 96 successful candidates, 40 waitlisted, and 403 examinees.

These numbers are from last year's Kindergarten （ Kindergarten ） entrance exam. Acceptance ・ information that was officially shared with waitlist families and is a reliable number （ The number of waitlisted students was also included in the waitlist notification email ）.

Including waitlist numbers ：
• Punahou ： 150 + 20 = 170 total slots
• Iolani ： 96 + 40 = 136 total slots

Recruitment Although the number of slots themselves is not significantly different, Punahou has a much higher number of applicants, which means that the acceptance rate is lower and competition is more intense.

Last year, Punahou passed 4 students from the waitlist and Iolani passed 16 students from the waitlist.
Both schools had very competitive admissions.

• お受験戦争
• 2025/12/03 (Wed) 12:56
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I went to the Iolani group exam the other day. I was told that there were still less than 400 people taking the exam and that last year about 20 people were moved up from the waitlist.
When my older son took the exam last year, he said that only about 10 waitlisted students were moved up each year, so
the child who started attending Kinder this August, who passed both Punahou and Iolani, had a much higher percentage of Punahou choices. The Iolani admissions people were truly surprised that there were less than 400 test takers and
that there were 20 advanced admissions. Was the Iolani boom over after about 2 years? Also, as others have mentioned, the 90% Asian race rate was not a lie. Probably 70% Chinese （ Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong ） and 20-25% Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Filipino. For your information.

• キンダー受験
• 2026/01/14 (Wed) 09:12
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We also took the Kinder exam last year. We sent our child to a preschool where they were told they had a good chance of getting into Punahou Iolani Kinder.
I did it with a tutor for a year and a half, but neither Punahou nor Iolani was able to make the alternate list. I was very depressed, but from there I started looking for a private school that would accept me. After being rejected from Punahou and Iolani, I contacted HBA and Merinole and was told that both schools had finished announcing their acceptances but had openings, so I went to see the schools.
Kinder, Punahou and Iolani are the only top 2 schools that are competitive. There are many schools that you can get into after Punahou and Iolani are announced. To be honest, I was surprised.
I was disappointed with the results of the Kinder exam, but the one year experience was a great experience for me and my child to work towards a goal together for the first time. We decided not to go to HBA or Merinol, but to go to Public, and we will continue to work together with our child for the 4th exam.
If Punahou had 550 applicants who didn't get into Kinder, I'm convinced that it's too narrow a field for us. I know the pressure is on, but I just want my child to go to the school he wants to go to.

• え？
• 2026/02/23 (Mon) 11:35
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You are recruiting for Iolani 4th. I hear they are finally starting to run out of students.
40 kinder exam alternates, and after all the applicants have been moved up, they still don't have enough. I wonder what happened. Looks like there will be openings next year and the year after.

• rainy
• 2026/02/28 (Sat) 16:50
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When the Iolani School incident hit the news, I felt that "One Team" and the counselor-dependent approach is still not working in this school. I'm appling to take the Kinder exam this fall, and I still think it will spur the popularity of Punahou.

• タコパ
• 2026/01/18 (Sun) 11:43
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I am a parent considering transferring my child to Montessori 3rd grade starting August 2026. I have confirmed with the school that they have quite a few vacancies and are looking for students in all grades. it seems that the school has up to 6th grade and then 30% of the students are accepted and go on to Punahou middle and the rest are Mid-pac and Public. I know there is a difference in academic ability, but I wonder if they can keep up with their studies if they are accepted from middle school to punahou or Iolani … Of course, I know it is impossible to take the middle school entrance exam without a tutor.
I would like to know the actual situation of children who went from Montessori to Punahou or Iolani in the middle school. Thank you in advance.

• minami
• 2026/01/24 (Sat) 17:47
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Nice to meet you, my oldest entered Punahou from middle from MCS about 5 years ago.
At that time, about 80% of MCS graduates were accepted to Punahou, and my second child took the Punahou exam from MCS the year before last and was not accepted.
That year, 11 students took the Punahou exam and only 4 passed. Therefore, the older child is in Punahou and the younger child is in another middle school.
To enter Punahou middle school from MCS, you must have a Tutor. All of us had a Tutor. The school says it is not necessary, but it was impossible without a Tutor.
Since I entered Punahou Middle, I have had a lot of difficulties every year. The kids coming up from the bottom of Punahou are really smart. The kids coming up from the bottom at Punahou are really smart, a little surprising.
At MCS, my older son was able to come in at the top of his class, but once he entered Punahou, he felt inferior, and he was shocked.

We can't play tennis, swimming, or soccer in the MCS facilities; PE itself, we raised them in a situation where there was no place to do PE. There is no ground.
I grew up in a small group and did not notice the difference in academic ability. Now I am struggling a lot in Punahou. The MCS graduates who entered Punahou with me
are also not at the average level. I realized that there is such a big gap in academic achievement after I joined Punahou.
As others have said, many families at MCS have siblings attending together, and it was a very small, non-competitive, and relaxed environment.
I feel that if I only knew MCS as a school, I would have become an MCS believer. I think I became a believer in MCS because of the totally unfounded rumors that "MCS is a popular school, if you are in MCS, you can get into Punahou, Iolani from the middle, the acceptance rate is high, and even after getting into Punahou, Iolani, MCS graduates are at the top" and so on.
I also believed this until my two children took the entrance exam and went to other schools, but the reality is completely different.
MCS graduates do not reach the average level of Punahou. The percentage of MCS to Punahou acceptance is already below 30%. In fact, the numbers are clear in the school's announcement. Currently, the acceptance rate continues to drop dramatically, so it is not released publicly, but only announced to current students via email at graduation.
As a parent, I also regret that I believed the rumors within MCS and believed the fictions inside MCS such as 90% of Punahou pass and that you can be very high ranked even after entering Punahou. It seems like brainwashing.
In fact, 80% of the kids who go from Punahou to IVY or equivalent are from Kinder.

As well as the facilities of MCS schools, without being a weird MCS believer, and with an eye on reality, Elementary does not recommend MCS.

• blue sky
• 2026/01/25 (Sun) 10:53
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My child attended MCS in preschool. When it was time to go from preschool to kinder, I took the Punahou and Iolani exams and failed both.
They did not stay at MCS and moved to another school. 8 students from MCS Pre took the Punahou Kinder exam and 3 were accepted. Iolani had 4 students take the test and 2 were accepted. I had heard that Kinder had a high turnout, but we did not even get an alternate at all.
minami's story inside MCS, I heard it many times in my 2 years of pre. （ LOL ） Indeed, ！
many parents of MCS alumni have their children attending or have several siblings attending, so there is some kind of false "internal MCS agaea myth" being spread ！
Punahou likes MCS.................. （ lol ）
The actual percentage of students going to Punahou and Iolani is much lower than the 78% on the website. One of my co-workers has a child who failed the 4th Punahou exam from MCS and was moved up from the 7th Punahou Waitlist and is in the bottom 20% of Punahou students. I heard that some of my friends who entered Punahou from MCS are struggling to reach the average. I think they are the same age as your child.

The preschool was good, including the teachers. However, I think that Elementary has been slipping away to other schools not only because of the facilities, but also because of the quality of the teachers, the decline in academics, and too few students in the same grade level. I am glad I moved my child from Kinder to another school and put her in an environment full of classmates in the same grade level. The Montessori pedagogy itself is only adaptable from age 1 to 6, so I'm not sure there is any point in being at Montessori after that. The only Montessori elementary in Hawaii is MCS because Montessori education is not adapted in elementary.
However, the preschool didn't teach much academically, but my child enjoyed it very much, so I have no regrets ！.

• MCS ALUMNIのママ
• 2026/01/29 (Thu) 12:04
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My son graduated from MCS and went from Middle to Punahou and graduated last year. He is now attending a state college in the Mainland.
Oh no, you can't compare Punahou to MCS. To be clear, MCS graduates have a very hard time getting to the top in Punahou.
The "pure gold Punahou kids" （ from Kinder ） are almost always at the top. At Punahou, we call the kids from Kinder "Punahou Kids".
80% of the students who went on to the Ivy League and the most prestigious colleges were also from Kinder.
MCS is a Montessori school, so academics are appropriate, and from about the 4th grade onward, children aiming for Punahou Middle must attend cram school or Tutor.
Don't expect to get into Punahou or Iolani just by taking MCS classes, the SSAT is very revealing.
Punahou, you need to be at least 90% on the SSAT after all these years of academic improvement.
When my son took the Middle, he got 80%. Anyway, Punahou and Iolani are not just the top two.
Once you get in, it's a matter of whether you can keep up with the Punahou kids or not. Anyway, there was a huge difference between the two schools, so as other parents have said, it is true that I had a hard time studying after I entered Punahou.

• チルチル
• 2026/02/21 (Sat) 09:10
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I had my son attend Monte until 6th grade and took the Punahou, Iolani, Mippa, and Merinol entrance exams, and he was rejected by Punahou and Iolani and is now attending Mippa.
To be honest, I had heard that 90% of the students could go to Punahou or Iolani if they attended Monte, and the school claimed that Monte's education was advanced and comparable to Punahou and Iolani without a tutor. However, when I took the public test （ the national test and the SSAT ） I found that the Monte students were not at that level, but at best Mippa and Merinol.
I was so surprised and impatient that I rushed to the individual tutor and Takahashi Juku. By the time I realized it, there were 8 months until the exam. I could never catch up with Punahou and Iolani level.
In the school year my child attended, 13 students took the exam and 3 were accepted to Punahou or Iolani, and 10, including my child, were not.
As others have said, many of the families who attend Monte are Monte believers （ really believing faith ）. It was my fault for being so relaxed and believing what they said and what the school claimed, but by the time I realized it, it was already too late.
The same people who come to speak at the Elementary panel every year as parents of alumni, the same people. For a long time now. Monte is a laid back, small school. The community is small because of the small number of families and the small number of students, and the information is skewed so that it is too late, as it is for me.
If you are considering Elementary at Monte, you will need tutors, etc. from 4th grade at the latest if you want to go to Punahou or Iolani from the middle.

• にゃんこズ
• 2025/09/13 (Sat) 14:05
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This may sound funny, but I always check the car behind me and if I stop and I think the car behind me is going too fast, I pump the brakes. And I always keep a good distance from the car in front of me. I would be so angry if I was rear-ended. And it scares me.

• つぶあん
• 2025/09/16 (Tue) 21:01
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I have lived in Hawaii for 10 years. I have been thinking exactly the same thing lately. In all the decades I have lived in Japan, I have never seen a car accident, but in Hawaii I see them several times a year. This year there were two. One of them was a hit-and-run accident in which the driver who rear-ended the car ran out of control like a drunk driver and hit the car several times with great force. I think Hawaii's driving etiquette is getting worse every year.
And I think the number of private cars in Hawaii has increased so much in the last few years that it has become a big problem. As a resident myself, I used to think it wasn't so bad, but nowadays when I go outside, I often smell gasoline in the air and I hesitate to go out. Although this is Hawaii, the environment that should be a paradise, a world-class paradise, is being damaged. If this continues, not only will the quality of life for the residents suffer, but it will also keep tourists away. Tourists do not visit Hawaii to breathe dirty air or to be trapped in traffic jams. I strongly believe that unless decisive action is taken, Hawaii will face serious environmental and economic decline.

• iv
• 2025/09/17 (Wed) 14:44
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I was once rear-ended by a police car while waiting at a stoplight. It was minor, but I was surprised that such a thing could happen.

• KAN
• 2025/09/17 (Wed) 16:26
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＃ Thanks for the info, 10nyankoz. I've started pumping as much as kudos to you too.
#11 Tsubuan, thanks for the information. I drove for more than 10 years in Japan and never had an accident. I think most of the locals here would run away even if hit. I think the problem is that they have very low morals. After I was hit, the other driver ran away.

#12IV, that is a valuable experience. I was at an intersection last year where an ambulance and a civilian car were rear-ending each other ．

• カニ2
• 2025/09/18 (Thu) 23:46
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My husband is an ex-police. He says
① the issuance of licenses is too easy and many people have poor driving skills. I doubt they have a few hours of voluntary skill practice
② Hawaii is crawling with criminals. They can't go to jail so they are released immediately. People with 100 arrests are walking around.
③ There are a lot of immigrants here and they don't speak the language, which is another reason why employment is not stable
④ Hawaii is multicultural with many immigrants. This is not Japan. There is no courtesy here. Expectations will only lead to disappointment.
⑤ You are the only one who can protect yourself. ⑥ This is not Japan, don't expect too much
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• 宝くじ
• 2025/09/01 (Mon) 23:28
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When I made Balance Lock the standby for my phone,
I won 300 million yen in the lottery, which I have never won in 30 years.
I keep it a secret from my family.
*In case you are wondering, we do FBAR in the U.S. as well.

• あけましておめでとう
• 2026/01/03 (Sat) 16:46
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We also easily got into HBA from the middle school.
Elementary was Wai'alae, so I was not a very good student, but I could easily get in from Wai'alae without any tutoring or cramming. But HBA, Merinole, and St. Louis are almost impossible to fail if you only submit an application. Don't worry.

• あけましておめでとう
• 2026/01/03 (Sat) 21:11
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As an addendum, Montessori Community School also admits anyone from Kinder. It is said that every year about 20-30 students are accepted from Kinder, but only one is admitted or not.
Currently, the school said that there are not 10 students per grade level. Moreover, they divide the under 10 students into two classes, so there are less than 5 students in the same grade. I declined because the number of students is too small for my child's education, academic competitiveness, and non-academic nurturing environment, but Kinder and Elementary are one of the schools that you can get into if you apply. Pre is very popular and seems to be hard to get into.

• Coffee talk
• 2026/01/06 (Tue) 23:04
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Last year my son was accepted to a Montessori community school, Kinder. About 13 people from my son's pre took the test and all were accepted, but none of them were admitted. The reason is still the facilities in the school building are almost nothing. There is no library, no music, no art, not even a schoolyard, and the place to do PE is in a small concrete space ？ parking ？. The public facilities are better than the private ones and the school is not worth paying for the private ones.
I think that's why the number of students is quite small. …
They claim to be multi-age, but I heard from a parent of a 3rd grader who lives in the same townhouse that unless they are multi-age, there are only 7 students in each grade, and they are all elementary students with siblings.
I heard that until around the time of the Corona Disaster, the percentage of students who passed Punahouiolani was 80%, but in the last few years, the school stopped announcing the number of students who passed Punahouiolani because of the decline in academic performance, with only 2 or 3 students passing Punahouiolani.
He said that has had quite an impact on the school, and that the facilities, coupled with the public and below, have made it a school where everyone from Kinder is accepted.
We turned down both HBA and Montessori and went with another private. You should do a lot of solid research ！

• ベル
• 2026/01/08 (Thu) 11:09
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Monte I see it's like that
Preschool seems to be very popular, but surely not having a schoolyard is critical for elementary school students, or even an indispensable place. The same goes for libraries and music rooms. Lots of things essential to childhood education are lacking as facilities.
Why is Monte's preschool so popular?

As for HBA, my brother is a graduate of HBA, and it is just about the Hawaii average in terms of academics, nothing too good, nothing too bad. My brother told me that many families have lived in Hawaii for a long time.

• キンダー受験
• 2026/01/14 (Wed) 08:50
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We also took the Kinder exam two years ago.
I was a tutor for a year, but I did not get into Punahou or Iolani, even though I was an alternate. We also contacted HBA after we were rejected from Punahou and Iolani and were told that there were openings and we could enroll. I went to see the school and found it to have a unique atmosphere. I was told that the same was true for Merinol and that I could get in right away.
For Kinder, only the top two schools, Punahou and Iolani, are competitive, and the others are always recruiting. There are many schools where you can get in after the announcement of Punahou and Iolani acceptance without any rush. I was surprised.
I was disappointed with the results of the Kinder exam, but the one year experience was a great experience for me and my child to work towards a goal together for the first time. We did not get into HBA or Merinol, but Public, and we will be working hard together again for the 4th exam.

• ブドウ
• 2025/10/24 (Fri) 22:23
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If you want to change your phone, it is wise to buy an unlocked phone from an Apple store if you want to buy an iPhone
because you are bound by a contract if you buy from the phone company. The same goes for Android.
You can use any sim.
In other words, buying at a phone company's store is a trick and a tie. I'm surprised that people still don't know this stuff.

• sweetです
• 2025/10/28 (Tue) 13:40
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Thank you for telling me.
I made a question topic in ？ ？ at the word iphone17 free.
We don't mind the contract terms at all. I just wanted to know if I can get a
new iPhone17 for only ＄ 62/month that I am paying now if I continue
with my 36months contract again.
＃ 3 Eh ？ Thank you
for your kind words.

• 新
• 2025/08/13 (Wed) 16:22
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I think Mr. Mori is too unique
and there were some misunderstandings.

• Mekealoha
• 2025/08/31 (Sun) 23:33
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I watched youtube and confirmed it. Good luck to both of you.

• Yoshie
• 2025/09/28 (Sun) 23:51
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I hope they make up.

• つぶあん
• 2025/09/29 (Mon) 07:14
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#6 UFJ, that's really it
I think you have a lot more to think about.

• こちかめ
• 2025/10/23 (Thu) 02:10
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I, too, wanted to know why we fought, but I'll think about something else more.