Then I would add that in my small town in PA, my property taxes are under $500 for a 4-bedroom house with a nice yard, a garage, and a corner lot. A similar house in Northern New Jersey, would be ten times as much tax. I know, I used to live there. (Full disclosure: it was somewhat larger and I actually paid TWENTY times as much tax.)
I'm very jealous.
We have to stay close to our family for now.
We were in N.C. for a few years. Beautiful home.
Now we are in a box on a postage stamp that was 4x more than our home in N.C.
But family comes first.