I think you may be misunderstanding the term.  As far as I understand, there's no chronological association with "house flipping."  House flipping is simply an investment in property with the intent to resell for profit.  

Are you saying that you purchased a sea country house with the intent to live there indefinitely?  Your story about knowing what was happening to the community and wanting something else for your children suggests that maybe you didn't intend on living in Wai'anae.

Are you also saying that you were never given any opportunity?  Everything you had just appeared as it is? 

Going to law school was a choice that I had after given the opportunity to attend.  Every Hawaiian doesn't have the choice to go to law school.  Your choices are made upon opportunities that arise.  "Equal opportunity" is a policy because not everyone is given the same opportunities.  Clearly.  

Not everyone can make the same choice, because not everyone has the same opportunities.