It definitely helps with the motivation part! I figure if I could ride the bike for 1/2 of my trips it cuts down the cost to 2 bucks a gallon. New york taxes the H#!! out of gas as well.
It definitely helps with the motivation part! I figure if I could ride the bike for 1/2 of my trips it cuts down the cost to 2 bucks a gallon. New york taxes the H#!! out of gas as well.Good gawd with those gas prices you would have to ride a bike!
I live a little further south in NJ and was wondering where in the whole country would be the least taxed area/state/town? Most of the real estate taxes go to fund schools and the rest to fund police and other services. Is there any place where there are no schools? I don't think I can afford to live in my own house with no mortgage from social security and other investment income when the time comes.Yea I know, my father-in-law lives down south of you in the Catskills, Wallkill to be exact. Gas and cigerattes and property tax and school tax and and and and and it never ends up there
I think Va.now has as many NY as NY does.I have meet so many people moving to this aera to get away front he taxes of NY. I have 3 neighbors all from NY here specifically to live in their retirement years!I live a little further south in NJ and was wondering where in the whole country would be the least taxed area/state/town? Most of the real estate taxes go to fund schools and the rest to fund police and other services. Is there any place where there are no schools? I don't think I can afford to live in my own house with no mortgage from social security and other investment income when the time comes.
I'll bet a lot of them are from western new york, not only to avoid taxes, but the weather is tougher to tolerate as you get older. although last year was unbelieveably mild. (global Warming would actually help buffalo!)I think Va.now has as many NY as NY does.I have meet so many people moving to this aera to get away front he taxes of NY. I have 3 neighbors all from NY here specifically to live in their retirement years!
Anywhere near Rehoboth ?Delaware is fairly cheap I have a beach home there its worth more than my home in Pa and the taxes for the year are $750 school, state and town taxes. Taxes in Pa are $4000
I smell a DFH trip in my futureYes I am about 45 minutes above Rehoboth small fishing village called Bowers Beach.
Oh we can do some time on the bay now!Any time you want to fish let me know.
A picture of the wife and I on the bay.
That sounds very interesting. I will be looking intoI'm not sure the exact answer to your question, but a lot of people live in small RV's, conversion vans, or trailers, and rent when they are inclined to or living somewhere they are making enough money. Maybe having some kind of RV could be a backup for if you get swindled out of your home by "property taxes". If you have to keep paying a tax on something you've paid for in full, it's not really your property, right? (sad)
Maybe you can live in an "unincorporated" rural area. Some places will even give you free land if you can bring a business to their town (some places in Colorado are like that, quiet little towns).
Wow...I missed this somehow. My wife and I just looked at a property that was built in 2007. Only 2100 st ft but has 10.63 acres at the end of a gravel road that is way down the road to nowhere. loved it. Realtor said the the home owner had over 500,00.00 invested on the market for 325.000 and I promise you the taxes where NOWHERE anything you all are talking about.Been in MD for 15 months, spent my whole life in NYC/NJ.
In 2006, bought a 1300 square foot townhouse, $6k in property taxes.
Last May, bought a 2100 square foot house pay $2200 a year on .20 acre.
We talk about going back to NJ all of the time if we can, but honestly, how the heck can we afford to move back there? My in-laws have a neighbor selling a ranch, just under 1000 square feet on 0.09 acres, $339,900! And that's a "good" deal!
Jon, is that your flathead Indian?
I live in an unincorporated area. Basically it is the same as a "town/city/borough" but no "city tax."
Schools are county run and I have public water/sewer (county run).
What I do not get is a municipal police department (county sheriff/state police instead), municipal DPW (county/state) for snow removal and I have to pay a private company for garbage pick up. It "saves" me about $1200 a year.
Now. . . .
Living in the metro NYC area my entire life this is not "rural" by any stroke of the imagination, it's just a little more spread out. Instead of a 2 minute drive to the grocery store or pharmacy, it might be 6 minutes. Wegmans, DSW, Panera, Walmart, Target, Lowes, Home Depot, Chipotle, CVS, Walgreen's, BK, McDonalds, Wendys, Dunkin Donuts, Chick-Fil-A, Rita's, Taco Bell etc etc etc all within 8 minutes of my house.