Here in NJ older people can’t retire and keep their homes (the property taxes are too high); those same taxes make the homes difficult to sell, so the older people have to keep working...
It is no accident that young people refuse to buy homes in NJ; they don’t want to cough up $500 per month just for public school teachers alone - especially when they have no children anyway.
Anyplace above the Mason-Dixon is unacceptable. The North is a dreary dead place.
An in-law points out that the property tax in NJ is actually regressive, because it impoverishes the middle class to the benefit of the really wealthy, who could care less.