Interesting.
I moved from Washington to Kentucky to gain freedom. In Seattle, you need a building permit to build a shed. In my county in KY, I can build a house without an inspection - or permit. But I’ll probably have to pay cash. But even that’s OK, since it will cost a fraction of what it would in Seattle.
And the ANUAL property taxes on 32 acres, with a newer home, is the equivalent of one months car payment on a $30k car.
Yet Washington is much higher up the freedom list. Weird.
This freedom index says "On personal freedom, Michigan is hurt by the fact that it had a super-DOMA banning same-sex partnerships of all kinds in 2014."
And more blah blah.
My late father-in-law, who lived in the Chicago suburbs, refused to believe that we don’t have zoning in my county is SE Missouri. When I told him that no permit was required to even build a house, his response was “How can the county collect its taxes?” He was a village alderman and his first concern was always “are the rules being followed”.
Small world.....