I need to live somewhere with low property taxes.

Broke back mountain.

I live in a very nice suburb of Phoenix. 4000 sf new house. Pool. Lots of palm trees. Excellent schools. I pay $2000 per year in property taxes.

Cook county has excellent schools. You need to find someplace where people don't care about education.

Here are the states with the lowest property taxes on homes priced at the state median value (

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-highest-and-lowest-property-taxes/11585/

):

Alabama (schools rank 44)

West Virginia (schools rank 42)

Arkansas (schools rank 41)

Louisiana (schools rank 50)

South Carolina (schools rank 40)

Mississippi (schools rank 45)

Wyoming

No suggestions for you, but I feel your pain. I have a two-bedroom house assessed at $130K in upstate New York. Local, county, and school taxes add up to $8,500 annually. Plus we high state income tax -- probably similar to Illinois? Like you, I've never had kids in this school district (they enrolled where my ex lives), but I've trained on the track ... not sure that's been worth the $100K in school taxes I've paid since moving here!

Colorado generally has low property taxes.

Upstate SC...but income tax is high (7%)

Sell the house and go full time RV!!

cyhawk wrote:

Colorado generally has low property taxes.

+1 even in boulder they are low

runnER/DR wrote:

I live in a very nice suburb of Phoenix. 4000 sf new house.

A 4000 sf home is f’ing gross.

Alaska.

Allen1959 wrote:

No suggestions for you, but I feel your pain. I have a two-bedroom house assessed at $130K in upstate New York. Local, county, and school taxes add up to $8,500 annually. Plus we high state income tax -- probably similar to Illinois? Like you, I've never had kids in this school district (they enrolled where my ex lives), but I've trained on the track ... not sure that's been worth the $100K in school taxes I've paid since moving here!

Democrats take from the productive to give to the unproductive (and their cronies).

Gilbert,

Pay your taxes like a fvcking Real Man!

Chad

OP, you're looking only at property taxes. That's not your total tax burden. You need to look at state income taxes, cost of living, and cost of homes.

Adding these costs, Davidson County (Nashville) in Tennessee ranks very high. Tennessee is in the top ten states in low property taxes. It has no state income tax and the cost of homes is less than in nearby Williamson County.

While I don't know much about their running scene, I'd also consider Chattanooga.

Nashville is a lot less "southern" than the deep south because so many people have moved here in the past 20 years.

Move to Germany. I pay so little in property taxes. The US tax system is actually as repressive as most non Scandinavian countries tax systems. I lived34 years in the US and the last 15 in Europe. You have all been fed a bunch of propaganda that you live in a free and capitalist society. You pay way more in taxes in the states then most people realise. And you get so little there. My two kids will get to go to college for free. And they will get a better education then I got in the states, and I had a mountain of student loans to pay off after graduation. It took 10 years to get rid of them. Wake up America. You are not living in paradise. You are the boiled frog if you know what I mean.

Pick a red state never a blue state.

Come on over to Missouri.

Way lower taxes.

Also, crappier roads.

KC and St. Louis are nice mid-sized cities, Columbia is a great college town. If you don't mid conservative culture, places like Branson and Springfield are growing and have lots to do.

Only downside is outside the cities (I live in a small town) you are in Trump-Murca. Being any where left of "BUILD THE WALL BIG AND TALL" is lonely.

Rocket2 wrote:

Move to Germany. I pay so little in property taxes. The US tax system is actually as repressive as most non Scandinavian countries tax systems. I lived34 years in the US and the last 15 in Europe. You have all been fed a bunch of propaganda that you live in a free and capitalist society. You pay way more in taxes in the states then most people realise. And you get so little there. My two kids will get to go to college for free. And they will get a better education then I got in the states, and I had a mountain of student loans to pay off after graduation. It took 10 years to get rid of them. Wake up America. You are not living in paradise. You are the boiled frog if you know what I mean.

Some of that will change when the military pulls out of Germany, Japan, Korea and the rest of Europe. About time you Krauts paid for your own defense.