I Found America’s Poorest Millionaires

Here's my entire Hawaiian Adventure Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yqccGbhjoid97…

I used to be homeless in 1994. Stayed in Laguna Beach CA, used to sleep behind the Ralph’s grocery store. Now I live in Georgia have a beautiful, eight year-old daughter and own my home. Had to change where I lived, which changed my attitude and in turn changed my life.

25 years ago I had no idea how special it was to experience the smell of sugar cane burning in the evening and Lahaina still in one piece, going on beer runs with locals in the back of a pickup at 17 and smoking out with the guy who ran the pizza shop in the kaanapali shopping center every night. Everyone treated me like family as long as respect was shown, no littering was taking place, and no blatant paddling out to the main peak on a popular locals surfing spot. Thank you for sharing this, even if it was hard to watch in some ways it means a lot.

My 80’s parents would always say “the rich get richer and the poor keep getting poorer”. Something along those lines. Who would have thought the poor would’ve someday include the “middle class”

Sadly, lot of those little tourist towns are occupied by transplanted artists (modern day hippies that for some reason, don’t need money) selling their art. Not much employment is created out of those shops. They keep the store fronts intact, so it has that old vibe. You’ll probably never see locals shopping for art. Who can afford art when you can’t fill your cart?

" The rich are taught to ignore the poor while the poor are taught to work against their own self interest. " Draw a straight line between the elite class of billionaires and the class in perpetual poverty and call that line " tax reform ".

This reminds me of Cornwall in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 the rich have pushed all the Cornish out. They’ve lost their culture and ways and most of the sea side towns are now empty out of season that’s to second third home owners and air b&bs it’s really sad to to see Cornwall become a soulless millionaires play ground. The real Cornish are now sleeping on the streets or moved out of Cornwall all together

Hey Nick as a born n raised mixed Hawaiian i appreciate you educating foreigners and yes even mainlanders. This helps them have an idea of what’s it like and how we’re getting priced out. Keep Hawaiian Lands in Hawaiian Hands Aloha 🤙🏼 Some people will say we all are. But getting priced out your ancestors country land is different. More Hawaiians in Vegas than Hawaii is insane i didn’t even know that.

It seems the quality of living overall the US is declining fast

You should research the loss of the sugar industry in Hawaii a little more and why we are the only country in the world forced to use High Frutose Corn Syrup instead of sugar in everything?

Fruit Trees at 23:00 are Papayas! Great job Nick, I live on Maui. Great videos on Hawaii dude, honest and informative. plus, some sarcasm.. love it!

Kauai has the highest median home price at $1.4M. Mainlanders love it here. I am a descendant of migrant workers that came in the late 1800s. Elijah is correct. Adapt to change. Learn how the game is played and play it to win!

Most channels get a drone because they think it will make their channel better, but it does not make it better. For your channel though, a drone is just what it needed. I love it. I like your observations about the fact that poverty in the USA right now is mostly just caused by a changing economy. It's hard to nail down any responsibility or easy solutions. I like your man-on-the-street observations and interviews, too. I appreciate you even putting yourself at risk at times. You go places others are afraid to go, and you ask questions others are afraid to ask.

Not to many locals interviewed this video. Wish we got their perspective on things

Been to Maui 17 times and just loved it. Usually stayed at KBH ocean front. Yes things are different now after the fire.

Although some may lament the ending to the sugar industry in Hawaii, it really is not economically viable anymore. High value specialty agriculture might have a chance, but not a globally produced commodity like sugar.

This is way more informative about Hawai’i than Dog the Bounty Hunter

Very informative. And I was just wishing I could live in Hawaii! Changed my mind!

My husband’s parents were brought to Hawaii from the Philippines as teens to work on a sugar plantation in the 1930s. His parents and extended family all did very well. Most of the kids moved to the mainland. I’m from SoCal and lived in Hawaii for four years. We moved back to SoCal in the late 1970s because jobs paid twice what they did on Oahu and housing was much cheaper. We left SoCal 25 years ago and moved to the midSouth. When we lived in Hawaii, it was shocking that most people worked two and three jobs to barely make it. It’s like that in the midSouth now. The same investors who ruined Hawai’i and California economies came to the midSouth, tore down affordable homes, replaced with $750k two on a lot stacked trailers. Nobody makes that kind of money here. Wall Street and global investors have killed the American Dream. The only house our kids will own will be ours. The last time we went back to Hawai’i was in 2010. I was shocked at the homeless population. We hadn’t been back since 1989. We used to picnic at Ala Moana Park and in 2010 it was loaded with homeless people. I don’t ever want to go back. Too depressing. It’s becoming a global feudalism. Destruction of the working and middle class. Then the extremely wealthy. They’ll own everything. This is happening on the mainland too. Our city is expensive, overbuilt and crime is skyrocketing. Has to be by design. No one is that incompetent.

I went to high school for a few years in Kahuku, an old sugar town. The mill was still operating and there was a sort of required field trip to get a full tour of the mill, because traditionally if you were a good student you got to work in the mill. The poverty I experienced in the 70s growing up in Hawaii was something no one born after 1980 would be able to relate to unless they served in some particularly dismal part of the world in the Peace Corps.