Posted on 01/01/2023 8:45:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Yet, DC is #7…….good luck finding something to live in for $300,000 or less in DC.
Texas is on the list but California is not? Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Delawareans will soon start to notice the boots-on-the-ground efforts for property tax reassessment
If it really was retiree friendly, it won't be for long.
We’re NYS lifers.
Decades ago we bought a very small, very inexpensive home.
We used to get a lot of ribbing about that.
Now we know folks who can’t sleep at night wondering how they’re going to pay the high four to low five fig annual property tax bill on their larger, nicer homes.
We never have worried about that.
And trust me when I tell you that the thought of all the property tax income we have denied local and state bureaucrats over the decades more than makes up for the lack of space and inconvenience.
Or not in the Austin, Houston or Dallas areas.
This article also misses the fact that the general cost-of-living is less in Texas than it is elsewhere. Of course, certain items like cars won’t be much less expensive, but when you combine lower prices for land, and no state income tax, the overhead burden for many businesses is much lower than in states that don’t have these factors.
“This article also misses the fact that the general cost-of-living is less in Texas than it is elsewhere.”
Absolutely - just registering cars in Texas is very cheap, and insurance is likely on the low side also. Also, electricity and gas are VERY CHEAP, at least compared to the Northeast.
That’s why I think articles like this are intentionally slanted against red states.
What is the TX government doing with all that tax money? Are they really spending it better than the people who generated that money with their own labor? Or is it going to politicians, unions, waste, grade school drag shows etc, like everywhere else?
Amen, owning a nice paid for (or not) home in Texas is just like renting! In Texas you pay high school taxes, city taxes, and road taxes all in one bill adding up to about 2.5 %. To make things worse, they can raise them $1000 or more each year! And, you can’t petition to vote them down, because it is not legal in Texas to put it on the ballot. That is 90% of the reason that Texas ran me off…
“What is the TX government doing with all that tax money? Are they really spending it better than the people who generated that money with their own labor?”
Obvious answers to the second. For the first, I believe it’s mostly Medicaid (for those who choose not to work) and Education (for the idiots who still think public schools are ‘wonderful’, and those that are too lazy or too poor to take matters into their own hands), and maybe Food Stamps (not sure who funds that).
While it would be nice to have a state more in line with Asian countries that say “No work, then no food”...most Americans, including most ‘conservatives’ simply wouldn’t tolerate it.
Homesteaded or not, owning a nice paid for (or not) home in Texas is just like renting! In Texas you pay high school taxes, city taxes, and road taxes all in one bill adding up to about 2.5 %. To make things worse, they can raise them $1000 or more each year! And, you can’t petition to vote them down, because it is not legal in Texas to put it on the ballot. That is 90% of the reason that Texas ran me off…
Good post—we have done the same in CT.
The old real estate rule was to buy the least expensive house in the best neighborhood/area possible—that is what we did.
Sleeping well at night not worrying about finances is priceless.
We looked very hard at retiring to different southern states but could not find a better situation than we have now.
We looked especially carefully at a variety of Texas locations—concluded that we could not count on the future control of illegal immigration to keep their taxes (and crime) under control. Future events may prove us wrong—but we had to make a call and that is the one we made.
We had planned on bugging out of NYS.
But the last two years have shown that no state in the union, and that includes FL, is willing to secure their elections.
Until that changes, every red state is one stolen election away from disaster.
We’re not risking any more of our money until that changes.
Very astute!!
South Dakota & Wyoming should be in the top 5, I live on an plot of land just over an acre with a nice 4 br home. No state taxes and my property tax is $300 a year and certain veterans pay NO property tax. Life here is Good.
In a way that is not bad. Left to tend to only look at the surface layers of any issue, and if they read an article like this, they won’t want to move here. If they did further analysis, they might want to. So, good, let’s keep them away.
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