[sickoflibs]

RE :”A friend wants me to move (back) to Maryland. Told her I can’t as it would cost me at least 10% of my yearly income just to pay Maryland taxes.”

Its really tough on the retired who are not rich nor poor enough to get breaks.

Property taxes are typically $5K to 10K per year for a typical middle class house which goes for about $400-500K.
At least NYC gives those over 65 a property tax break for the obvious reason that they dont normally have kids in the public schools cost $$$, but here it doesnt matter to them.

More people here=higher taxes for us the past 10 years or so.

[VeniVidiVici]

I moved out of MD when I joined the Army 30 years ago. Of course, since I entered the service from MD I had to continue to pay MD taxes even though I had NOTHING in the state. I was a 17yo kid.

Finally after several years of paying MD taxes I sent them a letter asking them why I had to pay since I had no ties to the State.

They had the gall to tell me that even though I owned no property in MD I was now paying the State back for all those years of services they provided to me when I was growing up.

I kid you not.