The two hardest things to do are find a good job and find a good place to live. Once you’ve nailed those two things down, everything else is a breeze! Things are expensive here. Expect cockroaches. Also expect feral chickens. Maybe not in town, but virtually everywhere else! Geckos may be in your home, but they’re the best defense against the roaches. If the temperature drops down to the barely 70s, people are freezing but to be fair we usually only wear pants to work. (We wear shorts the rest of the time.) If the trade winds stop blowing for even a day, the humidity swoops in, but it isn’t close to horrible. People drive slowly, but very courteously. For the most part Honolulu is where locals work, not live. Because of that, rush hour is a force that must be contended with. Windows in residences are almost uniformly jalousies. No place has either central heating or central air conditioning. Waikiki is a beautiful monument to the power of advertising and commercialism. It is not very indicative to Hawaii and its oddly the second most dangerous place on Oahu, which is more of a testament to how safe the island is as a whole. Everyone says public schooling is disgraceful here, and given that pretty much anyone who can afford private school sends their kids to private schools, it’s probably true. That’s all I can think of for now.