Long story short, we live in the bay area, got offered a crazy amount of money to leave our house. While considering all kind of options (Las Vegas, Georgia, SC, Texas) that fit our bill (sun, warm, nice family suburb, outdoor life), Hawaii keeps coming top of the list.

I work remotely so local job market isn't so relevant to us, we make a decent living for California so while I am planning on saving on property tax, and as it seems cost of living is equivalent I'm not concerned about money.

I know it's a pinball desert there, but I would coming with mines, eventually jump on the opportunity to throw a few more in the container.

Let me know how is life there, the good, the bad, the ugly, I'll take it all !

My buyers are just people from San Francisco who used google street view as a realtor website !

Why ? That's exactly what I want to know

If you call Boise mild then we probably don't have the same definition of mild ! I go skiing not far from there in December and it's freezing as hell.
I find NorCal where I am to be mild, my problem here is that it's always cold at night. I think last summer there were only 5 days where we stayed out past sunset.

Thank you everyone, this is all super useful. My wife was happy with the price they offered us but I had to interject that Hawaii is a pinball desert so I needed to add a pinball budget for a decent collection, well more like DECENT ! So I added my budget and am now waiting for my happy buyers to tell me to go F*** myself
So if you see a dozen wanted ads popping tomorrow you will know what happened.

I do see prices are very similar to SF however property tax is way lower in Hawaii so thats a big save for us, actually enough to send the kids to private schools which seems to be the only way to get proper education. Income tax is also slightly lower, although I do day dream about Nevada but I'm more concerned about my kids safety probably my highest priority in where we end up going.

We have two dogs, who are family so they are not staying behind for sure, it does look challenging to bring dogs, the quarantine rule is a bit unclear but I'm not excited to leave them both in a quarantine center for 4 months.

Starting to look around for houses, it does look crazy but actually less than what we have here where bidding wars can double an asking price without any connection to reality.

More to come later, I have been learning a lot on the way, definitely appreciate the feedback.

Epilogue, I was to greedy

No pinballs for me, and no Hawaii for now !