>>31044749Aside from it being a joke, if you've ever tried to live there, it's kind of shithole, one of the poorer states.
>lots of shit can't be produced locally, thus it must be shipped there all the way from the mainland US (or wherever else), hiking up cost by a lot (you'll basically want to hunt to supplement your diet, which many of the locals do)>rent is on average like three times higher on the isles than in mainland America>has it's fair share of crime and scumbags, cops aren't all that helpful, looks the other way for lots of crime (for good and bad)>lots of unexploded old ordnance left from the Pearl Harbor day, heard a story from a guy about someone who found an old White Phosphor mortar shell on his property and put it in the back of his car and took it to work, asking him what it was, and was told to call fucking EOD and get that shit out of his office, "you could have fucking died the entire way over here">hawaiian natives don't get along with micronesian immigrants at all, fair bit of racial tensions there