Originally posted by: weez440:

no kidding man i keep looking going oh many look how much money i get to pay towards the house in the next 20 years. if i sold my truck my fourwheeler my snowcat and my dirtbike i could pay for about 1/3 of my house but then i would have no fun and life would be pointless so might as well dig myself deeper in debt


Don't even get me started on this topic. What I gotta pay for a place out here in the OC would make your eyes bug out. And then you add on the property taxes I pay to support the half of mexico thats here I just wanna scream. I have seen houses for sale in TRF that are less than what I pay in just property taxes on my house every year. Now add in California income taxes, sales taxes, fuel taxes, etc, etc.

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I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO; JUST DON'T ASK ME TO PAY FOR IT.

 

lol did i accidently strike a nerve dee? and i guess i can't complain i love my house and i love my toys so everything is perfect.

 

Yeah, taxes are a poke in eye for me. I now pay in taxes more than I made just 20 years ago. It would be one thing of they went for right purposes, but when you live where I live you see so much it abused.

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i pay 900 a year on 1.6 acres in town and my home values at about 80,000 so that isn't bad. it was supposed to be about 650 but they skyrocketed this year (restrains himself from placing blame)

 

Well mine are about 850 over double what they were when I bought the place 11 years ago , but not complainging

 

weez, I pay more a month than you pay all year; think low 5 figures. And that is in a subdivision with very little space between houses. Really gets my blood boiling sometimes when I think of all the waste....
Even on my land up there near Grygla the taxes have doubled in seven years; and that is with no new roads, no new schools, nothing to show for it.

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Since 1980, 80% of the jobs that have been created in the OECD world -- the industrialized world of Western Europe, North America and Japan -- were created in the United States. Another 10% were created in Britain, and another 10% were all of Europe and all of Japan combined. And the reason is that we have a low tax rate. Dick Morris 12 April 2007

 

<continues to restrain himself from placing blame> dee you should just move on up here. and i am looking at buying 2 lots across the highway from me cause i don't want anyone to move in there and who knows maybe someday they will go up in value but i dunno i am on the extreme outskirts of town i got nobody behind me nobody in front of me 1 house to the north of me about 75 yards and one to the south of me about 100 yards. lol i rip around here on my dirtbike all the time and shoot the occasional grey squirl dead with the 20 gauge. i am very happy in my lil slice of heaven. but then again everyones taxes are going up even here in minnesota right dean? i think it was actually 680 last year and i bought the house and they reappraised it and well there was no improvements done on the house or property for a couple years and they wanted to jump it up to 1200 a year and i had the realtor fight it and they brought it down to about 900.

 

well my city councel is a bunch of old farts ,that think were in Mayberry RFD ,but the town is dieing no new business ,almost all have folded ,only 2 gas stations and 2 restaurants and 2 bars ,with a couple of churchs ,but no hardware or any thing else .

 

Yeah, a lot of towns up there are dying off. The school is down about 20 - 25 % since I went there in the early 80's. I know I will only move up there when I am permanently retired. Not a whole lot of high paying jobs in the area anymore. It's hard to believe that AC used to be the biggest and best paying employer up there, around the TRF area anyway.

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I'm not even up north west of the twin cities ,about 50 miles .old farm town ,it's a don't blink or you'll miss it town ,