The advice most people give is to bring as little stuff as possible.
Bringing household goods requires using a shipping container. We shipped
most of your belonging and our car. If I were to do that again, I would not
do that again. I would not have shipped our car, and I would have only
shipped those really important things that cannot be replaced, or are
absolutely needed, i.e. we could not acquire it in Hawaii.
Just my two cents worth.
One more thing. We ended up with a few items that we shipped that never
arrived (some I considered with some personal value), even though everything
was in the shipping container, and we were there when the packers put
everything into the container. So, the fewer things you ship, the easier it
is to determine if something is missing on arrival. We did not find until
much later that we were actually missing things. By then it was too late to
make any claims.
"Paul Boylen" <pjboylen@m> wrote in message
news:1064464502-sch@news.lava.net...
>
> Hi Everybody
>
> I'm a highly qualified teacher hoping to accept an opportunity to
> teach in your beautiful state. (There may be some choice in
> assignments??) I'm already aware of the "everything is more
> expensive" realities and the "you'll have to change your lifestyle"
> thoughts (I can't wait!!)
>
> What I need is canny ideas about how to pull this off as cheaply as
> possible.
> What's the cheapest way to move stuff, transport car, airfare, travel
> between islands, ect.
>
> I have no desire to live in a city or be surrounded by tourists. My
> highest priority would be to live comfortably in a friendly community
> and spend my time exploring your beautiful state. I would love your
> thoughts
>
> I would also love to hear from any teachers who have advice or
> thoughts.
>
> Thanks, Paul
> PJBoylen@m
> 
Advice for teacher moving to big or outer islands 
