“My property tax on a 3-bdroom brick home that is just under 3,000 sq. feet is under $2,000 per year. What is yours in CA?
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That’s a bargain.
I do not live in CA ... I live in PA. Allegheny County to be precise ... home of the Pittsburgh Steelers and some wannabe minor league baseball team :-)!
I live in a borough where property taxes are nearing 4% of the home’s assessed value. All in all, for a bit UNDER half your size and of similar build quality, I am paying about $3,700 a year. Neat, huh? Property taxes around here are mostly school taxes ... we pay borough (aka local) property taxes, a county property tax, and a school tax with the school tax is pretty much at the outrageous level. I call it the teacher union tax.
I do live in a nice neighborhood, but I estimate that will not be the case in about 15 years. I have this place paid off, so moving won’t be that difficult. I am looking at either Texas (Austin) or Florida (Keys) ... that all depends on how my work goes these next couple of years.
On top of that, we have a 3% state income tax and a 7% sales tax ... not to mention a 1% local tax.
PA, like any state in this union, could be an awesome place to live, work, and play, but its far from that right now!
Austin!!
Too many lefties. My daughter and son-in-law live in Williamson County in Hutto, just North of Austin. Property taxes are much lower than Austin and property is less expensive (not cheap).
I live in the middle of the “Big Nothing” in the Rolling Plains. County population is about 6,000 people. The town I live in is about 700 people.
My family has lived here since the 1880’s. (I was the only black sheep and moved away in 1971 but moved back about 15 years ago.)
My suggestion is to look “near” not “in” Austin.
We are a little ashamed of the number of “lefties” in Austin. The University of Texas is responsible for a lot of the insanity.
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Texas is not where you were born, but a State of Mind, Heart and Attitude. Goes something like this: “Leave us alone to live our lives in peace and we will get along fine, if that is not satisfactory, we will deal with it.”
Some of my ancestors were born in Texas during the Republic, but most came here during Reconstruction. Those were literally burned out of Alabama.