Best Town to Live in
Kihei
Kihei (and South Maui in general) gets a bad rap from people on Maui, but for our readers, there’s no better place on the island to live. Kihei is poorly planned, they say, or it’s too ugly. Others say it has too many bars and not enough visible coastline. All are true statements to a certain extent, but as my attorney friend Ben Lowenthal wrote in one of his recent State of Aloha columns in The Maui News, Kihei exemplifies Maui’s working class today the way places like Pu‘unene did nearly a century ago. “Plantation camps were full of people from other places getting together and working for a single employer,” he wrote on the Feb. 8, 2013. “The story isn’t that much different for a lot of people who call Kihei home. Most people living in Kihei work at the major resorts in Wailea, run late shifts at high-end restaurants, and man the kiosks and counters for vacationing tourists.” @apignataro
Runner-up: Lahaina
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