No, it’s my Texas neighborhood. It’s finally come to a head that we’re going to have to move. Four generations have lived here and it was supposed to be our final home. Property taxes have gone up 10% each year since we bought the family home. What used to equal 2 weeks’ income is now pushing 4 months income.
Our neighbors have bought some land and set up a double wide. They are staying here as long as they can manage but know they’re going to be moving into the double wide before long and putting this house on the market. Another neighbor has bought an RV so they will just travel in it when they can no longer afford the taxes. We used to know all the neighbors and had neighborhood pot lucks but almost everyone has sold out.
You folks need to fight and get something like prop 13 passed in Texas, with no state taxes in Texas seems they are screwing you with property taxes instead!!!
Taxes in Texas SUCK. We are being driven off our land by property taxes! Where I live (Galveston county) just bout everyone is being taxed to death by property taxes. I am going to vote against every incumbent in Texas this election. The GOP in Texas have screwed this state up. Tax tax tax, surcharge surcharge surcharge, screw the GOP in Texas.
That is what has happened in NJ, though with job losses in recent years people are now stuck with high-tax homes nobody wants. Any new buildings seem to be apartment/condo type worker bee hives; detached single-family homes sit empty because nobody wants the property tax bills.
I don’t see any way this turns around.