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I love harrassing californians!

I own a 1700 sqft brick home on 1/2 wooded acre running stream just the other side of my fence, you can't see the neighbors houses in summer because of the dense trees.

We have (don't tell the Sierra club) red-headed woodpeckers (the big ones!) owls, hawks, eagles (yes, Bald-Headed Eagles), squirrels & chipmunks (a lot less thanks to the eagles & hawks) racoons, etc....and I live INSIDE the city limits.

Now...for the harrassment part....

3 years ago I paid $63k for the house, my taxes are $0 (homestead exemption - otherwise they would have been $350) our sales tax here is close to 9% but they do tax food and medicine as all good socialist states would. Income tax we have, but reasonable (If you're a politician/lawyer you don't pay much income tax - they exempt most of their money) but overall this state is nice and we are bit by bit erasing the socialist/communist influences.

Oh yea ---- ARKANSAS ---- no jokes please - I came here from Texas.

The only bad part about the cost of living / pay scale here --- try to buy a new car/truck. $30,000 for a truck is ridiculous when I can buy a house for the same price.

$30k for a truck is cheap maybe for the union auto worker in detroit, but it's priced way too high for many across the USA.

Now you see why companies are outsourcing jobs?

Yeah, but can you walk right outside your door and be on the the beach, like I can? I can watch whales and porpoises and seals from my house. And I can drive for six hours and be in Yosemite, or go skiing in Mammoth. If I only want to drive an hour and half, I can go skiing down here. LA has more restaurants than any city in the US, and they get all the Broadway plays, etc. There's hiking and mountain biking close to anyplace in Southern California. And I think the high today is supposed to be 70 degrees. It doesn't get any better than this.