Can You Identify These 5 Hawaiʻi Neighborhoods?

Today we want to test your knowledge and we want you to guess the neighborhoods we're in. We're going to be driving around to five different neighborhoods today. We are going to give you guys clues. So as you watch this video, I want you to leave your score in the comments. Comment how many of these neighborhoods you were able to guess before we put the answer up on the screen. And if you know the neighborhood, what are some clues that you would give that are telltale signs of the neighborhood that we're in? Okay, home styles in this area. You'll find some just single family standalone homes, but you'll often find multiple dwellings. A lot of people living in one structure. As far as yard types, since multi-family and a lot of people living in one situation, if you have a yard, it will be more of a common area or primarily taken up for parking. Not a lot of yards. In terms of weather, climate, pretty temperate average. Not super rainy because we're not super mauka. Not super close to the ocean. So just normal Hawaii good weather. Types of people who visit or who are in this region. Kind of everyone. Some students, you might have some long-standing residents, some old, some new. The gamut. Now back in the day, my dad frequented this area. If you watch the channel a lot, that might be a clue, but that's pretty esoteric. My dad grew up kind of in this area. Back in the day when Hawaii and Oahu was a little bit more segregated based on plantations and ethnicity and culture, Oahu very much had that. This was a area. A little bit more mixed now. We'll kind of give it away with the landmarks. We set you up on this one. This is a hard one. I didn't give you much to work with. And so if you got this one, you're a real one. And if you got this one, tell me, how did you get it? How did you, how did you get that? I don't think anyone's going to get this one. So in terms of popular landmarks, well, there's Moiriiri Japanese Cemetery right here. Skyscrapers and buildings and all the things. So we are standing in Moiriiri. If you say town, you get half a point. If you say Moiriiri, you win. What kind of home styles can you find here? You may find multi-million dollar beach front mansions. Old plantation style homes that are still a million dollars plus. A ratty old plantation surf shack up a small alleyway. You may find homes that are perched up on a hill with amazing views and one acre lots. For your yards and your landscaping, you could find lots that have mature fruit trees. You might even find ag lots that have mango orchards, plumeria farms. Or you could find homes that have difficulty growing grass because the soil is mixed in with too much sand. You may find yards that have outdoor showers to rinse off in. What kind of weather are you going to find here? Well, you're going to find this kind of weather. You're going to find blue skies, cloud coverage, a nice breeze coming off of something nearby. Tourists. You may find people who are coming to enjoy that year-round. Who else would you find here? You may find professional surfers who either moved here and made this their permanent residence or who sometimes because it's the surf so good here, they fly in just for the seaside. You will definitely find a lot more people with a lot less clothes on than you may find at other places on this island. That means you can go into the grocery store, the restaurants, or any number of commercial spaces and maybe you're going to find people with board shorts, bikinis, no shirts on, and probably not even slippers. You're also going to find people who are driving five to ten miles per hour to Rubberneck and watch the things that are going on, whether it be the beautiful surf, the beautiful weather, or the beautiful people. That means the commute is not so good any time of year, but especially bad in the winter season. What type of landmarks can you find here? You may find a boat harbor, shark tours, and fishermen. Houses that sell pickled mango. Houses that have big white coolers with slabs of ahi and sashimi for sale. Bridges that little local kids are jumping off of or people are paddleboarding under. Really world-famous shave ice stands. A slew of different food trucks. A multitude of world-famous surf breaks. The lifeguard stand that they used in Baywatch with Jason Momoa. You may also find a 16-year-old bahe hanging out at that guard shack trying to get a glimpse of Jason Momoa. Spoiler alert, she did not. So we're currently in a unique prestigious part of Oahu. Home styles that you will see here, all kind. You see just small basic homes. Some of the most grand, historic, beautiful homes that you could find on this island and mostly older homes. In terms of yards, generally speaking, I think you're just going to see kind of a plain well manicured yard. Maybe some tropical landscape. Definitely some rock garden. The little concrete bridge, bonsai tree. Typically fairly lush. A little bit more on the makai side of this neighborhood. Could be a little bit drier. Be a lot wetter behind. You guys got to know this. I'm giving this one away. Sunny or shady depending on the time of day and where the home is positioned. Types of people. There's family names that have been around maybe since before Hawaii was even a There are certain names that come to mind. I'm not going to name drop them, but maybe politician. Figures in this society, in this economy, in this political system that can matter in certain ways. We all matter, you know. Doesn't matter if you have an electoral vote or not. Everyone matters, right? Kind of pick up what I'm putting down. The commute here for most people, not too bad. Although it can depend on where you're positioned. Landmarks. Let me give a landmark that's not so obvious. The old St. Francis school. After this, if you guess it, it didn't count. You didn't get this point. Another landmark, UH, University of Hawaii, Manoa. Manoa Falls trail and all that Manoa has to offer. Home styles. You may see newer construction type homes. Homes that can be closer together. Bigger homes, a little bit more square footage, a little more bang for your buck. Hawaiian homestead in some little pockets. New builds sprawling. For this neighborhood, you may see a Costco. Waterslides. Lagoons. Easy access to DMV. Satellite City Hall. Pretty much anything you need. You might even say it's a second city. For your yards and your landscaping, you may see big water bill. You may see green grass. You may also have hard time keeping your grass green. You may see things like plumeria trees, palm trees, but you might not see a bunch of ferns and monstera and lush green vegetation. For weather, you probably are going to see blue skies and sunny days. Unless of course you're in a shadow from the airplanes flying over you, which you also may see. You may be the one area of the island that's not raining when the rest of the island is raining. Who might you see here? You may see people who want a little bit more space, who need designated parking, who need a garage, who want to get as much as they can, as nice as they can for as little as they have to spend. You may see people who commute kinda long to get into work, but that's okay because someday the rail's gonna finish. Okay, home styles in this general neighborhood. You're going to find single family or sometimes duplex-y kind of homes. In this particular version of this neighborhood, they tend to be newer 90s and after-ish builds seemingly. There are versions of this neighborhood where there are older builds. You're typically always going to find uniform colors and it's not that someone can go paint a home purple and orange, or even if they wanted to, that they could because they can't. In fact, the people aren't even allowed to paint their homes even the same color. You're going to find the yards that you're going to find. Not a ton of personal landscaping. I mean, apparently not a ton of any kind of landscaping and there's not going to be much variation or choice in that weather. In this particular iteration of this neighborhood that we're standing in, not too rainy, not too hot. We're not talking Kalama Valley, we're not talking Waianae, Kaneohe or something, but there are iterations of this neighborhood in each of the climate zones on the island. They don't make this one in the hottest parts of the island, but there are some in the coldest parts of the island. There's this in a few places. Let's leave it at that. Types of people who live and frequent this community. Now, I will say this is a bit of a classist kind of community, meaning people may find themselves in different living arrangements. There are fair housing laws. I'm going to pause that thought. There are fair housing laws. We cannot direct people based on protected classes, but the people who live in here are subject to that to some extent. Depending on your job and how important you are, there's a correlation to how much you make. Maybe the size of your family and status will dictate how you can live in a neighborhood like this. Guys, you gotta have it by now. Leave me a comment. Tell me you know this one, right? But there are going to be some people who wouldn't be in the know. The people who know, know. And the people who don't know, they're going to go, oh. As far as landmarks, we might as well just give it away with this one, okay? So if you comment after this, you didn't get it. You have to have commented before this. So landmarks, Navy Exchange, Pearl Harbor, Hickam. We're in military housing, guys. All right, guys. I'm going to ask you to do one of three things. Either go to courtteamhawaii.com, scroll to the bottom, fill out the contact form if you have any real estate needs. 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