On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Mark Komarinski wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Fred wrote: > > > > Another negative is that it is in Massachusetts, and on top of the low > > salary you get to pay $$$$ in mass taxes that of which you receive no > > material benefit from (unless you live in Mass, in which case you have > > my sympathies. :-)). > > > > If you want to see taxes, move to NY. My brother lives in a house valued > about 1/2 of mine, pays three times the property taxes I do plus a > separate school tax. Then there's the 8.25% sales tax and the income tax. > > And that's upstate NY. It's worse in NYC. > I'm actually planning ot move to Upstate NY hopefully next summer. (We've been looking, but we won't move in the winter.) We currently live on 62 acres in Northwood, NH. We paid 300+K for what we have. In upstate NY we can get twice the land + more house & outbuildings for half what we paid for our current place. And property taxes will be significantly lower as well. Even adding in sales and income taxes, we will still end up paying less to live in NY that we're paying to live in NH.
Given: most of the taxeas paid outside of the City are used to finance City programs. That sucks, but it's the price you pay. There is a web site that does a cost-of-living analysis between different areas, but I don't remember where it is. (Or it may just show the TCL of a variety of different places, I'm not sure which.) > Taxachusetts indeed. > Yep. -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) "I do not believe that they are like the Scots or the Welsh and doubt that they ever will be. The real British interest would I think be served best by pushing them towards a United Ireland rather than tying them closer to the United Kingdom. Our own parliamentary history is one long story of trouble with Ireland." -- Sir Alex Douglas-Hume (13 March 1972) _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss