Texas meets all your low tax, not full on lockdowns with no commies outside of Austin and Dallas the ghetto parts. Italy got it pretty bad in the beginning of the Rona they way over reacted sadly and still are. Texas has been mask free for nearly a year and we are not swimming in covid. By this point most of us have had it some had a bad go. I lost two close friends so is at least for them was not just the flu. It was before the vaxx came out. I see this country in full on collapse I’ll tolerate masks to have a spread in Tuscany. I’m triple clotshots with no side effects yet I just had a cardio CT scan but I have a preexisting condition that warrants that and have for 10+ years now. So I have my papers.
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I appreciate your input greatly. Unfortunately, nearly all the properties we have checked out in Texas have had extremely high property tax rates... 2.00% of assessed value and beyond in many cases. There are other states where the property taxes rates are much lower which do not tax retirement income. Of course one has to consider the overall situation as it applies to their personal preferences. My wife and I prefer to keep a higher percentage of our assets in real estate... property tax rates are more important to us than most people.
We are also concerned that Texas has an independent power grid with an over-reliance on wind and solar power which is quickly destabilizing it. We are currently living in a situation where we lose power frequently because of tall trees combined with high winds. We have to rely on our generator several times a year and would prefer not to. Fortunately, we have natural gas piped to our house, otherwise it would be a very difficult situation frequently.
I am sorry to hear of your loss. My wife and I both worked and volunteered at the Life Care Center of Kirkland before the “Covid Pandemic” became a widespread problem. It was the first multi-level care facility in the country to experience multiple fatalities which were related to Covid. I was one of the first posters on this forum to report back that this was something to be taken seriously.
But soon after that, the reaction to the “pandemic” morphed into something that took on a life of its own. We were told that wife's brother who was on hospice care and had an inoperable cancerous brain tumor had died “from Covid”; one of the first “victims” outside of Life Care Center of Kirkland in our state. This was of course complete nonsense, and everything went downhill from that point forward.
I am of course very happy and relieved that you have had the one of the vaccines and a booster with no “side effects” that you are aware of. Not everyone has been so lucky and unfortunately my wife and I know numerous people including family members who have had serious complications directly related to the shots.
In some of these situations there is an almost humorous aspect. Some of our fully vaccinated friends and family have tested positive for Covid multiple times after getting sick repeatedly and then they typically say that they "feel so fortunate that they were vaccinated because otherwise their symptoms would have been much worse". In some cases it has become obvious to others that the likely explanation for their ongoing problems with Covid are because their immune systems have been compromised likely from the shots, yet they keep going back for more.
And no, I won't tolerate wearing a worthless piece of fabric or paper over my face to have a spread in Tuscany or anywhere else. This was a feel good political solution to a medical issue... no good came from it. I wear them when I am doing woodwork or working in a dusty environment, and also when cleaning up mouse droppings when there is the chance that they are infected with hantavirus virus. They also made sense when I was riding around in the back of ambulances with people hacking out their lungs from contagious pathogens like TB and respiratory MERSA.