Sunday, January 16, 2011
Exploitation of Kailua is the American Dream
Just as Bruce Voss has "grown up and still lives in" Kailua, so have I ("Target: It's another Holiday Mart," Star-Advertiser, Letters, Jan. 12). In my opinion, Kailua was destroyed years ago, even before places like Pier 1, California Pizza Kitchen, Walgreens and Whole Foods moved in.
Unnecessary stores are coaxed by a real estate company into moving here to make money, which they do. These stores satisfy the throngs of mainland transplants who come to Kailua because it was marketed to them by this same real estate company. This town is being exploited and that is upsetting many Kailua residents, including myself.
I've contemplated moving to a less-populated town in Hawaii, like Kailua used to be, but it's probably no use because some corporation will end up exploiting it the same way, because that is the American Dream.
Justin McCoy
Kailua
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