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Virginia is largely the home of government these days so it naturally has a large number of retired and active duty military personnel.

Precisely. The measure should be where they enlisted from, not where they retired to or are assigned.

Virginia, Maryland area was one of the most expensive places I have ever lived. When I arrived, began my position at the company...soon after I received an envelope from the government. Opened it up and it was a personal property tax form. The form asked to list personal items of value in my home such as pictures, furniture and so forth.

The next day, I went to work and asked some coworkers that were native Virginians...they said, toss it. No one returns these things. If you do, the government will begin taxing personal property. YIKES!

Then, registered my auto that I purchased in Texas. Paid sales tax in Texas and registration so forth. The state assessed a personal property tax on my vehicle...every year! YIKES! again. Not once, but every year. The state did choose to throw out a bone..you could divide the payments in two. Pay half in Jan./half in June. If I remember correctly...it was close to $600 a year for a 96 Merc. cougar.

Co-workers telling me stories of personal property taxes on cars, ATV’s, RV’s, Boats.

Then you had to have a reg. tag, inspection tag which is not much different than Texas...cept, you also had to have a county tag. Gimmini Chriss-miss.

I'd looked into purchasing a modest lil home, rather than renting. Good grief. This was back in the mid 90’s. A small 1100 sq ft. “ranch home” (basically a lil box) was running $150K back then. YIKES once again.

Loved the area, very beautiful, very historical, but I had to get my seff back down to Texas.