Sorry if my comment prompting your response appeared provocative or aggressive. Just bothered by these constant statements of "am leaving my state" or "gotta invest your money elsewhere" without any specification as to where.
Regards,
Illinois, Highest sales tax, highest property taxes, income tax was low but keeps rising. Home value has not gone up a penny in two decades. Crime rising through the roof. Infrastructure falling apart. Crime alone would make me leave.
Small town Northern Wisconsin. nobody locks their bike, or car or house. No garbage, no graffiti, property all taken care of. Its a different world.
And I lived in Illinois since 1965