@Cosmichomicide Boo hoo for New York. Their property taxes are three times higher than my current address. That's in part due to nearly a billion in property tax money to the "missed it by that much chief, perpetual losers the Buffalo Bills". Similarly, Kathy gave Syracuse university millions they used to buy a golf course removing it from the tax rolls. NY is a lovely piece of real estate run by criminals; I should know I spent most of my life there.

@MidnightRider

Pretty sure the point is that New York attracts high earners despite the cost of living because of the quality of living.

Mississippi attracts folks who need to live cheaply and are willing to lower their expectations for healthcare and education.

NY real estate is pretty much a cesspool and the Trumps aren't even the worse. But that's a market, not a state.

@MidnightRider

I can't find this elsewhere, so apologies for the Facebook link, but take the time to watch this. You will never look at Louisiana or property taxes the same way.

📸 Look at this post on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/WWqUqUjtG51BcjXp/

@Cosmichomicide All you need to know: Upstate NY, nowhere near the city. 898 sq ft home = 4,300 taxes. Where I live? 1640 sq worth 3x = 2,200.

@Cosmichomicide Like my cousin said: If cost was no object? I'd love to live in California, most of us would but few can afford it. My other cousin lives in Santa Cruz on the ocean, lucky bastard! I can't even conceive of that.

@MidnightRider

Damned skippy. I'd be right behind you.

@Cosmichomicide NY consumes people, takes far too much of their life wealth for pet projects and disposes of the elderly drowning them in fees and taxes. They also send your car to the dump in a decade due to rot, many not even at 100K in miles. They can't even lower the taxes with legal cannabis, because they spend too much. Remember the free Thruway concept? Yeah we all know how that worked out.

@danielbsmith

We're purple. I noticed, despite the recent actions of the NCGOP, we were mainly called out for the older Bathroom Bill impact.

Lived here all my life - it can change on a dime. Never forget the stealth midnight votes.

The GOP desperately wants to get hold of our UNC system. That will change a lot here if they do.

@Cosmichomicide Indeed we are purple. 👍 The GOP needs to keep their hands off. I'm in public education so I already know what they're capable of. I would love a blue wave to take back our legislature permanently. We were blue for decades until about 2009 when the twin disasters of Enron's Bankruptcy (NC was heavily invested) and Hurricane Fran made a case for GOP control. We've suffered ever since.

@danielbsmith

BTW, none of this is to say that NC doesn't have a bright future, but it also manages to stump it's toes every time we get close.

I've lived rural, suburban, resort, and urban in all parts of NC - we spent years riding tobacco and finance, when tobacco dried up, the rural part of the state absolutely atrophied as farmers took money to grow *nothing*.

We should have been investing in those areas. Instead we fed the resentment of the cities that pay the bills.

@Cosmichomicide @danielbsmith They should be growing cannabis. Once the "bible belt" catches on the gravy train will be less. Just like the south did with their "dry counties" now festooned with liquor stores far larger and more comprehensive than NY.

@MidnightRider @Cosmichomicide A lot of places switched over to vineyards. Alcohol is the new cash crop after tobacco dried up. I can see the argument for cannabis.