Sentences with word «mainlanders»

Anyway, a rough estimate with self managed (which I have seen many mainlanders do) its going to be the $ 21,450 gross, minus 877.96 for tax, $ 6,110 maintenance fees / HOA, $ 12, 454 in mortgage, $ 400 online vacation rental booking fee, and you end up in the black with positive $ 1,608.04.

The company now redirects traffic to its Hong Kong site where the search results are unfiltered, although Google acknowledged the Chinese government could still block access for mainlanders.

This narrowly focused approach resulted in voicing opposition for the proposal without creating the impression that the opposition was being driven by mainlanders.

Kuah is a town with a vision for the future; a vision that includes ferryloads of mainlanders popping over for a holiday or just for duty - free shopping.

Chinese mainlanders started settling in Taiwan dating back to the 17th century, and the Japanese colonization of the island ended in 1945.

Wang, ranked the 39th richest mainlander by Forbes, defined BYD as more than just a manufacturer of batteries and cars, pushing hard his message that BYD will take advantage of the increasing demand for new - energy vehicles to expand scale.

And as mainlanders increasingly fish waters that are supposed to be reserved for Islanders, she realizes that the Island might be heading for a «gear war,» a series of attacks and retaliations that have been known to escalate from sabotage of equipment to extreme violence.

For many mainlanders and foreign nationals, the opportunity to invest in Hawaii real estate is the perfect melee of business with pleasure.

After generations of turmoil, the bolthole mentality runs deep among China's rich — by one estimate, 47 per cent of rich mainlanders plan to immigrate within five years.

Around A.D. 1000, the island of Zanzibar, now part of Tanzania, was settled by African mainlanders, but the island soon hosted traders from Iran, India, and Arabia.

Among mainlanders, Tasmania has a «green and clean» farming image and maintaining and improving this can take the island far along the national and international food trail.

More than 160,000 mainlanders vacation in the islands every year, and of late the annual migrations have included more and more sportsmen who find the islands offer action both ordinary and unusual.

This soviet socialism motivated Anatolian farmers to embrace Turks in the 1400s to avoid redistributative taxation and then for liberated mainlanders to migrate to Smyrna in the 1800s.

Mainlander who defected to central north but now on the coast looking to find renewed happiness.

What's really offensive, to Hawaiians and mainlanders alike, is that after more than 50 years Hollywood can't make a better Hawaii movie than Elvis did.

Still, mainlanders out for family entertainment won't feel shortchanged.

The island remained largely uninhabited until the mid-1800s, when mainlanders moved to the island for its security and good fishing.

Disclosure: Maui by the Sea Cottage sits off of Hana Highway (it is not a «highway» as mainlanders understand it, it is a 2 lane road).

Internet technologies have abundantly changed Chinese people's lives with mainlanders from all walks of life using WeChat to communicate with each other while ordering goods or services via the internet.

European mainlanders know how to eat out.

Mainlanders don't care about delays like that — it just means they get a Starbucks and miss the evening rush hour traffic — but for an islander the result is missing the last ferry home and being barricaded in a motel near the ferry terminal.

The island's last private owner was R.J. Reynolds, Jr., the tobacco heir whose widow sold it to the state of Georgia in the 1970s, except for the land owned by the African American community, much of it now being gentrified, acquired by mainlanders, and thereby ousting the original residents.

Traditionally prepared by pouring boiling water over shredded coconut to make coconut milk, using canned coconut milk (not cream) makes this recipe easier for mainlanders.

«A lot of participants in Hong Kong's financial markets, especially in the stock markets, are foreigners and mainlanders.

By an overwhelming margin, the Asian Games Federation agreed, threw out the Taiwanese and invited the mainlanders to replace them.

If you're a Mainlander, you know Robert Kekaula as the man with the velvety island cadence voicing college football's overnight shift.

The fact that «White House political Director Patrick Gaspard has been active in expressing concerns» about a low - turnout special election may show that mainlanders are out of touch with reality on the ground.

I kind of feel like a mainlander asshat, tearing through a cow pasture in Toyota's most hardcore Tacoma, throwing mud and the occasional cow pie into the air, trying my best to get the pickup to drift its back end around a super slick turn with the four - wheel - drive system in low range and the traction control completely turned off.

Many «mainlanders» do not realize that Hawai'i is the most isolated group of islands on earth.

Although there was not enough to provide for the needs of the mainlanders, sea salt added an important facet to the economy of ancient Ambergris Caye.

Perhaps they care about the environment, climate change and ocean acidification more than mainlanders do?

Also, laws are specific to the state you're in and Hawaii has some quirks that we mainlanders don't even think about (like lava fields), so be sure to take any specific advice with a grain of salt.

(flip flops to you mainlanders!)