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Florida or TX, no state tax and relatively warm weather than NY where I stay now.

There might not be any state tax, but the property taxes are nuts.

interesting, looks like some big variability on property taxes. Would be great to see these things in a histogram.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-property-tax-calcula... https://smartasset.com/taxes/texas-property-tax-calculator#t...

Truth. I don't believe there is any way my home appreciation will outpace my property taxes.

It of course depends on where you live, but if you want to live anywhere that's desirable near city centers..

15k a year for me. Approx 7.5 to the various Governments and the other half to schools. Those 5 million $$$ sports complexes and artificial turf football fields at the middle school (Grade 5-8) aren't going to build themselves....

Meanwhile they can't create a decent online curriculum so kids can learn from home.

It's a joke. Teachers and the School Districts get whatever they ask for because voters are too stupid to figure out what it costs them. I guy I work with doesn't even know how much he pays in tax every year since it is in escrow with his mortgage payment. He just votes yes because it's for the kids you know.....

Not looking forward to the dystopian future when the econ theory of "price discrimination" is adopted by state and local governments, and they target people who pay property taxes through an escrow account. Once the mortgage is paid off just bump up the property tax to match the amount of the previous monthly mortgage payment and see who notices. Instead of a 30 year mortgage, it can be called in infinite mortgage at which point 99% of people will all effectively be renters

You still pay less money for a comparable property even though the rates are higher.

Why not Nevada then? The humidity in either is brutal.

Choose Texas, couldn't pay me to choose the pneumonia capital of the world, lol

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