[1Old Pro]

Adding THAT into the mix (along with skyrocketing utility costs), my monthly expenses increased roughly $1,800 over a three-year period.

You and everyone else. Especially those living in California and New York. It's why California and NY have the highest rate of people LEAVING the states, it's terrible. It's Left wing governance.

[drwoof]

And I think I need to join them. Friends have moved to Tennessee, South Dakota, and Wyoming and all are quite happy with the decision. More than a little irksome too is the fact that I pay a roughly 9% income tax to a state government populated and run by a pack of lunatics who hate me.