Posted on 10/05/2018 7:31:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In Palo Alto, CA, $200,000 buys the dog house in the back yard.
Hmm... Maybe I should sell out & head to Tennessee...
(Not quite yet, but maybe in a few years)
It’s not just the price. It’s the property taxes, too. How are those?
RE: Maybe I should sell out & head to Tennessee...
What makes Tennessee even better?
RE: It’s not just the price. It’s the property taxes, too. How are those?
What ever the property taxes are, they’re nothing compared to where I live ( Long Island, NY ).
I feel your pain. We’d love a nicer house. But we won’t buy one in NYS.
My wife and I recently moved out of Milwaukee County where we were paying $14,000 in property taxes to the country with a new and bigger house and acreage for $5000 in property taxes. I don’t see the appeal to living in the city anymore.
Starts out showing austin @ 1,341-square feet for 200k.
then, devil in the details, they list Round Rock-Austin.
Round Rock is an affluent suburb of Austin.
Median household income Round Rock: $69,892
Median household income Austin: $42,689
(approximates - data is from wiki)
so, 200k will buy a ahouse with less sq. ft in Round Rock vs. Austin...go figure.
For $200,000 you could probably buy a city block in Detroit, Gary, IN, south side of Chicago...etc.
Property taxes in Tarrant County, Fort Worth, are frozen once you reach 65 years old. I didn’t file for my tax exemption until I was 67 and they reimbursed me for the taxes I had already paid. On a 2000 square foot house I pay about $2000 a year in taxes.
I often joke that I sold a shack in Rhode Island, 1200 sq ft, and bought a mansion, 2000 sq ft and brand new, in Texas for half the price.
We are headed to Dallas area.
2 more years and adios Illinois!
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“It’s not just the price. It’s the property taxes, too. How are those?”
My question too...being from illannoy I’m paranoid about those. It’s costing me about a grand per month in this unholy place.
In DFW metro property taxes can be well over 1% assessed value but the valuations are significantly lower so the actual tax amount is much lower than say, California.
Only if it’s in the back yard of the nastiest crack house within 50 miles
we could be followin all y’all (practicing).
Daughter’s family is in Wichita Falls.
Son’s family an my better angel and I still live in Illinois.
When Illinois starts taxing retirement income (and they will), we are history.
Zillow puts my 960 square foot, on 1/10 acre, 85 year old house in Northern California at $600,000.
Thank God for Prop 13 and having lived here 49 years, my property taxes won’t even buy dinner at a three star joint around here.
“For $200,000 you could probably buy a city block in Detroit, Gary, IN, south side of Chicago...etc.”
They should give you 200k to take a place.
For 100K we bought a nice house on 5 acres in Missouri and pay $800. as yr in taxes.
In Palo Alto, CA, $200,000 buys the dog house in the back yard.
In New Jersey’ you’d be lucky to get the permit to build the dog house for 200K ...
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