I've heard that Taxus is paradise for property tax assessors and collectors - how is that working out for you? At least in California, I own my house (I don't rent it from the government tax collector) and it is never reassessed due to Proposition 13 - and there is a 2% annual cap on tax increases.
Say what you want about California, but unlike Taxans, we are free of skyrocketing and unpredictable tax increases. Maybe tax freedom is why California houses are worth more than Taxus houses.
I may be wrong, but I think it's also because California is basically paradise as far as the climate is concerned.
On housing anyway; the state legislature is barely held in check by the two-thirds requirement for tax increases, and still some new taxes slip through. God help us if the number of Republicans ever drop below a third.
Even housing taxes are changing somewha. The pro-taxers have discovered the "divide and conquer" approach is working. They put together special assessments like pest abatement, beautification, etc. and since they don't involve a lot of money, voters go for them. They never seem to notice that they're getting charged for stuff that government ought to be doing with the money they already get. It frees that money up so that government can blow it on something else. Classical frog-boiling technique.
You still pay much more in total taxes and home cost than Texans do.