Posted on 04/12/2018 2:53:42 PM PDT by bgill
“Taxes here are 4 months of income.”
This is not a particularly good neighborhood. Oh, crime is low and every house in on three to five acres of woods, but it’s 22 miles from a grocery store or any real employment. One of my neighbors built an awesome house, probably three to four thousand square feet. His monthly tax bill, and, yes, he pays it monthly, is $700 per month. I have bought houses for less than that; income property. There is no water and no sewer out here.
You’ve got some damned big mosquitos where you live...
Are there screen police?
I’ve always heard that the bugs are BIG in Texas.
However, it is not something which should be dictated by a nanny state, particularly an unaccountable nanny state.
This is how the EEC started out as a benign trading association, then gradually morphed into an organization dictating the shapes of bananas which could be sold and finally into the monster EU which tells member states they have to import psycho refugees from violent sandbox countries or else.
The Left’s desire to control the lives of others never wavers.
It’s a model code. It can and should be modified prior to adoption. Health and Safety codes are good, Public Welfare can get dicey real quick IMHO.
Heck with that, require everyone to have a shotgun. Have you seen the critters in Austin? When visiting a daughter there in Austin, a tarantula half the size of my shoe walked across their driveway, stopped at my foot and then walked around it. Daughter had to sweep large scorpions off her deck. A fly swatter is an underpowered weapon!
The “experts” at helping insure “affordable” housing is not built.
Many municipal house codes should be no more than “recommended but not required” and many should be left to the insurance company of a homeowner’s insurance policy to require, or not.
The rest are nanny state busy bodies that while espousing to FORCE homes to be “better” often make them “BEST”, by legal mandate, when “good” and “better” are sufficient for many people when it comes to the cost.
The contracting trades get their mitts into a lot of this stuff, insuring the most expensive installations (their bread and butter) are “required” when lots of people would be safe, fine and comfortable left to what is easiest for them to afford.
The Screen Police.
Wasn’t that a Cheap Trick album?
There’s a City Of Austin questionnaire at the end of the article. They want your opinion about screens. No email address required but they do ask for your zipcode (works without it).
I answered the questionnaire and demanded screens ON everything upto and including the outhouse. I said I wanted them immediately.
Take it. They voted for this krap.
Been on this earth a long, long time and I’ve never heard of window screens being referred to as “insect” screens.
Will they have bullet hole repair kits available?
Now a way to stop the kids from running in and out 400 times a day.
“It states homes with air conditioning would not be required to have insect screens...”
The typical summer day in Austin is 98-100 degrees and the the average home price is $350,000.00 and values are increasing 10-15% per year.
There are no homes in Austin the do not have air conditioning.
Pretty much the same out here in my boonies. The only exception is California imports are moving in jacking up the prices. They’re buying up dinky little houses (like ours) and bulldozing them to put up nicer homes which only causes my taxes to go up.
They're talking about making people have additional NEW screens on their windows that have apertures small enough to keep gnats out.
“Hopefully, CW-II will allow us to “process progressives” in the manner they very much deserve.”
I’m ready for it. I thought Trump might be able to save the nation, but his own party still wants it destroyed. Time for the guillotines.
And I’m glad to live in Tennessee where people can live in any type of housing they want. It seems to me that a lot of people are living in would be condemned another state, but still… Freedom comes with choices, not always smart ones. I would still take freedom over subservience.
Don’t Be Cruel
Move to Austin and learn what Hell is really like!
Austin is Berkeley with cow $hit! You have a state capitol with a university, what could be worse except to also have a gaggle of illegals and a Beaner Female “sheriff!”
And that is why I will NEVER visit that boil on the azz of Texas called Austin.
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