Alas, with the onset of heavily chemical lawn treatments and crisply sodded tracts that rely almost solely on a single species, Kentucky bluegrass, we've all but paved this kid-friendly paradise.
I even plan to eventually follow in my wanderlust cousin's footsteps and move my family to this eco-friendly paradise for six-ish months.
It doesn't hurt that the sound also conforms to ingrained notions of Hawaii as a consumer-friendly earthly paradise.
Adults from £20 a night, children 4-16 £5, open July-September, 0845 257 2267, emberscamping.co.uk On the leafy fringes of the village of Wendling, the Fire Pit is a family-friendly camping paradise, usually scented with campfire smoke.
The "Friendly Confines" are paradise for fans lucky enough to watch games inside what is essentially a living, breathing baseball museum, with its famed ivy covered outfield walls, hand-operated scoreboard and beloved bleacher seats.
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre 278pp, Faber, £12.99 These days no one really buys into the cartoonish stereotype of the American grain belt as a laid-back, friendly cowpoke's paradise.
Mainland Nova Scotia was said to feel like New England 50 years ago, a friendly, uncrowded maritime paradise with vast tracts of cheap, desirable land.
Paradise lost, paradise regained.
The Upper West Side, with its Borders and two Barnes & Nobles, with its wide, walker-friendly sidewalks, is also paradise.
The best thing about Tortola has to be the warm and friendly people who inhabit this paradise.
The country's international image is that of a tropical paradise inhabited by tourist-friendly flower-wreathed peoples.
