You may enjoy the culture but pay tax upon tax to finance the pleasure of living in a democrat controlled paradise.
My property tax has been in the 4-5000 range for a beautiful, spacious house. Suburban PT are higher and the Republicans run most of those.
We pay:
1)sales taxes;
2) liquor taxes;
3) income taxes;
Offsetting these are relatively low housing costs.
You don’t get everything but the Machine controlling the city has not stopped me from getting all I wanted from living there.