I couldn't agree more. I thought this was going to be a post on how to remotely handle a team that isn't connected to the world but it was a fluff piece about h

I couldn't agree more. I thought this was going to be a post on how to remotely handle a team that isn't connected to the world but it was a fluff piece about having fun at the beach and living with friends in Hawaii while building a product. I was going to post something similar to this but you basically said the things I wanted to. I live in the Virgin Islands. Hawaii is definitely different than many, if not most, tropical places in the world. I've been to Hawaii and it's absolutely nothing like the third world country this place is. While I live in paradise, I suffer through frequent power outages, shoddy Internet and a thorough and complete lack of decent techies to relate to or interact with. I pay 5x... yes, 5 times what most pay for electricity. Customer service is completely non-existent anywhere on the island. You can never find what you want at the store. Trying to find computer parts or anything technological is nearly impossible. Shipping is slow and unreliable. Even if you happen to get something, the absolutely terrible electric company (which has a stranglehold on everything here) ensures your tech stuff will be fried sooner or later with or without a surge protector. The racism is absolutely rampant here; the crime and violence is staggering. Sure, the beaches are fun and the weather is nice, but the isolation can be extremely disheartening and it is not an easy place for a techie (or anyone else) to be. I work for a company in a room with 9 other programmers. I can't remember the last time any of them even mentioned a new web framework or a new programming language or anything of the sort. I yearn for more and am planning on leaving to go where I can be more successful and happy being the developer that I am. This blog post would have been much better titled: "How to Move to Hawaii with Some Friends and Build a Startup."