> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Green > > New Jersey minimum wage is $7.15, yes. Buit can one pay > their real estate taxes? Wait, on that salary, one cannot > afford to own a home. > > At that salary, 25% of my gross income would go to pay the > real estate taxes on my house. And I not unusual. As a > state, New Jersey has the highest RE taxes in the country. > Or so I read.
Chicagoland can't be too far behind that. My annual RE taxes are just shy of $4K on a $180K bungalow in a suburb..... -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html