[I still care]

I left Long Island because of 'limited housing availability and affordability"

In English, a house that has $7000 yearly taxes (a nice average figure on LI) is just not worth it compared to a house in the South with taxes of maybe $1500.

They can put in all the clubs and marketing they want, but in order to give out their ridiculous entitlements and pay their unions the NE states have developed monster property taxes and people just can't pay them.

The only problem is, the uneducated that move here "for the taxes' are flabbergasted when they don't get their perks, and start voting social stuff as soon as they get here. It's amazing to me that people never seem to see the relationship between taxes and services, and don't understand how inefficient and wasteful the government is with our money.

[libill]

Young adults are leaving DEMOCRAT states...Democrat voting habits

I have seen it in south Florida.

In English, a house that has $7000 yearly taxes (a nice average figure on LI) is just not worth it compared to a house in the South with taxes of maybe $1500.

In Smithtown it's more like 15-20k.

[Obie Wan]

I've been here all my life and I can state unequivocally that Massachusetts and other northeastern states are not conducive to working with the free enterprise system.The people running these states are all about socialism and the results are beginning to show.While the country in general is gradually turning in this direction there are still options for free market companies in other sections of the country to look for !!!

[RavenATB]

"In English, a house that has $7000 yearly taxes (a nice average figure on LI) is just not worth it compared to a house in the South with taxes of maybe $1500."

I'm sure that was true a while back, but I have a 2600 sq/ft 4 bdrm/3 bath on a 100 x 200 ft lot in the Florida Panhandle, between Pensacola and Panama City. I live in a nice subdivision about three miles inland from the shore. I pay $7100 a year in property taxes.

[KoRn]

"In English, a house that has $7000 yearly taxes (a nice average figure on LI) is just not worth it compared to a house in the South with taxes of maybe $1500."

I live in the South. To think I was upset last month for paying $1,200. I was really furious, but it was the first time we'd ever paid property taxes on a home. lol