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Not Tracie Mukai.

She grew up in Mililani and now lives in a three-bedroom, two-bath townhouse in Mililani Mauka with her husband, Kevin; their 5-year-old son, Andrew; newborn son, Derek; and their golden retriever, Kayla.

Before she took maternity leave to care for 2 1/2-month-old Derek, Tracie, 34, normally commuted into town and spent her days visiting clients as an advertising-account executive. Kevin, 40, still makes the drive six days a week to tend to their business, Yuri's Florist on King Street, where Tracie also works.

Some days, while driving home separately, Tracie and Kevin have found themselves calling each other to give traffic updates and alerts.

"I do spend a lot of time in traffic — just over an hour in the morning to get to work," Tracie said. "There's nothing you can do about it."

But there's no way Tracie would trade the commute for the life she has in Mililani Mauka surrounded by other young families, lush parks, soccer practices and plenty of room for dogs and kids.

"You sit in traffic every day and you think, 'This really sucks,' " Tracie said. "But I don't know if I can live in town. (In Mililani) the school is right across the street from our house. My parents are here (Tracie's mother, Annette Nishikawa, is principal at Kapolei Middle School) and Kevin's family lives in 'Aiea. So it's easier to visit the grandmas and grandpas. And I can ask them to pick up the kids from school or the sitter. Mililani's just so easy. There's everything we need."