“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.
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.