COVID-19 has forced our hand in an unexpected way.
We had the wheels in motion to relocate to North Dakota late this summer. It’s where my wife is from and all of Her siblings and their families are all there.
Since my Dad passed, I only have my grown daughter here in Hawaii. Our condo was going on the market this week, if is sold, were planning on renting until late summer then moving. I had done a couple of FaceTime interviews and things were looking good. Lower cost of living, more bang for the real estate buck and access to travel while we’re of an age that we still can.
Then COVID-19 ramped up. We were still hopeful, but with oil prices tanking and COVID-19 hitting ND, especially the Indian reservations and University towns it’s not looking so peachy back there right now. Tourism aside, Hawaii looks to be in pretty good shape as the virus goes.
The other small thing is the hot Kona summer is coming and some of the choices we made when we remodeled the condo since my Wife works are home were to offset the heat , and I could also be home for a couple of months. If we went in to a rental, we would have no control over this. She can’t handle heat.
Our hope is maybe a 2021 move. Hawaii’s Tourism may not be back by then, but if the virus in under control and we have a COVID-19 shot, we expect ND may bounce back quicker than Hawaii, the only wild card at that point is what we could get for the condo.
The more things things change, the more they stay the same.
Cheers and Aloha
RB
North Dakota Sunset on the Prairie Hawaii Island Sunset on the Pacific
