scrubbedexpat099

Sorry meant we as in the town not me.

Pulaski

Vulgaria?

N1cky

Seems a bit rash to move to another state just so there's a school bus.


$400 isn't too bad. If I didn't work from home and couldn't pick her up from school, she'd have to get the train. That's $2 one way every day, and she'd still have to walk around 1 mile.

I'm hoping we can finally buy a house next year, and we can be on the other side of town, and she'll be able to walk/ bike to high school. Not to mention the constant outings to friends houses that I won't have to chauffeur her to.

Bob

Yeah, not to bad if the average property tax wasn't around the $10K mark.

Pulaski

Are they billing for five years at a time? .... Or ten?

SultanOfSwing

Mental, isn't it? There are towns round here, closer into Chicago or to the North Shore where $10-15K isn't uncommon for large lots. Ours is around $3,600.00, which is reasonably cheap for this county.

Pulaski

We got a nasty bump up this year, or at least it felt like it, to $1,500!

SultanOfSwing

That's still not that bad though, especially when you consider the size of your lot (never mind that your house, if I remember the square footage correctly is about twice the size of ours), given that a few years ago when our taxes were higher, we were paying about $4,400.00 for a quarter acre lot

N1cky

It's that here too

Pulaski

2,750 sqft nominal, based on the exterior dimensions of the house, equivalent to about 2,450sqft of living space, IIRC, and sitting on 1.5 acres. We pay another $170 dollars tax for the vacant adjoining lot.

SultanOfSwing

Whichever way you slice it, you get a better deal. You're paying 54c/sq ft or $1,000.00/acre; whereas we pay $2.09/sq ft or $5,300/acre

Pulaski

But you have the "benefit of municipal services". At least that is what they told us when the nearby city tried to annex us. The homeowners fought the city, ...... and won. Funnily enough 80%+ of people didn't want to have their property taxes doubled!

kodokan

Our new property taxes in Ohio will be about double what they were in AZ (sort of - we're only buying half as much house, so they're effectively staying the same for us).

But then according to that interesting Niche site someone here mentioned the other day, OH teachers are earning an average of $80k compared with their AZ colleagues on an average of around $50k. Which explains why when I went for my son's high school Open House the either day, the teachers were universally enthusiastic, passionate, skilled-sounding educators, whereas the best I used to hope for with his AZ teachers was an amused, jaded cynicism which at least played very well with Son on a personal level.

Bob

Yeah, but that was the only town in the area doing it, when all the neighbouring towns had similar tax rates.

Then again, they also did a pay by the bag rubbish collection thing, which wasn't cheap...really nickel and dimed you that town

N1cky

Just looked at the taxes on a townhouse on the estate we live, $9,400 per year, works out at $5.39 per sq ft.