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Just an effort to get members a chance to learn about other places and understand better why some things are as they are reputation wise.

I'm from NJ, born in the north eastern part of the state, city environment, right across from NYC. High taxes but you earn a heel of a lot more then in other parts of the state and country. Corruption? Sure but everyone is corrupt, if your not screwing someone, someone is screwing you. It's all part of the game and built into the economy as well as the mind set.

Yes we have dirty dilapidated cities like Newark and Camden, but we also have great cultural things like museums a fantastic selection of restaurants, wonderfully diverse and ethnic communities from all over the world. I can shop in India Square one minute and in 15 minutes be shopping in a place that is exclusively Cuban or Central/South American, almost no English spoken but it's great!

We've got the shore, with dozens and dozens of miles of white sandy beaches, boardwalks, stadiums, concert venues, great classic theaters line the Stanley or Count Basie. Did I mention we also have a great view of the NYC skyline, right across the Hudson river?
 
I live about a mile from trump's golf course, I have 10 acres with a horse stable. I am also about 45 mins from manhattan, where I grew up.
 
I was born in VA and was a happy only child for a couple of years, lived in Germany for 3 years and came back with two screaming little brothers, lived in MD for 40+ years and worked as a defense contractor for about 22 of those years, with a three year stint in Guam, and now live in Texas semi-retired collecting Social Security and working as a self-employed handyman. That is my life story in one (messed up?) sentence.
 
I'm from the woods of SC. Lived in FL for a while. And now I live in CT, a state in which the average cost of living is almost double that of any other state, but the median salary is only 10k higher than the national median.

You do the math.
 
KevinKohler said:
I'm from the woods of SC. Lived in FL for a while. And now I live in CT, a state in which the average cost of living is almost double that of any other state, but the median salary is only 10k higher than the national median.

You do the math.
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Why so high?
 
I'm from Long Island, NY.

This state (Illinois) is the worst. There response to years of corruption are the most ridiculous rules that just waste people's time and does nothing to deal with real corruption. it's in massive debt, and the non polittican billionaire idiot governor held the state hostage for 2 years because he couldn't get his anti-worker agenda passed by the democratic majority so he kept vetoing the budgets. ANd many people suffered. But why would he care.

To me, the best place ever is Colorado, and I hope I can end up back in Denver
 
JANFU said:
Why so high?
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A combination of taxes, and supply/demand.

CT is small, so real estate and apts are extremely expensive. We charge a...70 cent gas tax, I think? Which affects the costs of everything else.

There's a ton of wealth in this state hoarded by a few, almost no middle class, and the rest are pretty poor, if you go by standard of living.
 
JANFU said:
Well it is about to get worse as SALT over 10 K is gone.
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Yep, now you only get to have those in other states help you pay the first $10K of your state's ridiculous taxes. Maybe you can get CT to play the CA latest accounting game and invent a state run charity so that your (federally deductible) charitable contributions to that pocket of the state government will offset your (no longer federally deductible) taxes due to the other pocket of the state government.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, now you only get to have those in other states help you pay the first $10K of your state's ridiculous taxes. Maybe you can get CT to play the CA latest accounting game and invent a state run charity so that your (federally deductible) charitable contributions to that pocket of the state government will offset your (no longer federally deductible) taxes due to the other pocket of the state government.
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And which the IRS will make a ruling that it is illegal.
 
KevinKohler said:
A combination of taxes, and supply/demand.

CT is small, so real estate and apts are extremely expensive. We charge a...70 cent gas tax, I think? Which affects the costs of everything else.

There's a ton of wealth in this state hoarded by a few, almost no middle class, and the rest are pretty poor, if you go by standard of living.
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But it gets some very cold weather and snow so that makes it all worthwhile.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
But it gets some very cold weather and snow so that makes it all worthwhile.
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My plan is to build equity for the next 15 years (my youngest is 5) and sell the house at a (hopefully) still reficulously inflated price, and get something decent in SC, pref in the Charlestown area.
 
Born and raised in upstate NY, near Albany. Left at 18 to join the Air Force. Served mostly in Colorado Springs with a few months in Central America. Left active duty and moved to Tucson where I remained in the reserves and attended the UofA pursuing an architecture degree. Since I'm now an accountant you can tell how well that went! After college I bounced around with a national furniture chain for about 10 years before returning to Tucson where I set up my tax and accounting practice.

Tucson may be ridiculously hot for 3 months out of the year but that's a small price to pay for not needing a snow shovel. The city itself has a certain charm if you know where to look but, unfortunately, that charm is often buried beneath the worst roads in the nation, a city council that seems to hate businesses and the resultant sluggish economy. Outside the city we have spectacular landscapes, tons of nifty little towns and some of the friendliest people I have ever run across. It's a great little slice of America.

Of the places I've lived I'd pick Tucson or Boise to stay. There are a lot of similarities between the cities but Tucson edges Boise out because it's a little bit more convenient to major cities.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I was born in VA and was a happy only child for a couple of years, lived in Germany for 3 years and came back with two screaming little brothers, lived in MD for 40+ years and worked as a defense contractor for about 22 of those years, with a three year stint in Guam, and now live in Texas semi-retired collecting Social Security and working as a self-employed handyman. That is my life story in one (messed up?) sentence.
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Guam? Three years? You poor thing. I was there for 9 months and made damned sure I didn't leave anything behind when I left. All it takes is one week and you've seen EVERYTHING there is to see in Guam.
 
Beaudreaux said:
Guam? Three years? You poor thing. I was there for 9 months and made damned sure I didn't leave anything behind when I left. All it takes is one week and you've seen EVERYTHING there is to see in Guam.
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It does get small rather quickly but with a 20% remote duty pay hike, PX and commissary privileges it has its advantages. Plenty of fun to ride the backroads on a motorcycle. I was able to rent housing really cheap, and make some cash on the side, in exchange for fixing up some really trashed section 8 housing units for a real estate firm. That part of the world has the most constant temperatures on the planet at 87 plus or minus about 2 degrees. Other than the rainy season it is always beach and BBQ weather (too hot to cook indoors). I never did acclimate enough to even think about sleeping without A/C but did like the people and the food.
 
Sampson Simpson said:
I'm from Long Island, NY.

This state (Illinois) is the worst. There response to years of corruption are the most ridiculous rules that just waste people's time and does nothing to deal with real corruption. it's in massive debt, and the non polittican billionaire idiot governor held the state hostage for 2 years because he couldn't get his anti-worker agenda passed by the democratic majority so he kept vetoing the budgets. ANd many people suffered. But why would he care.

To me, the best place ever is Colorado, and I hope I can end up back in Denver
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My husband says that about Colorado Springs. He misses it and wishes he could go back, but he has breathing problems, and I guess the altitude would just be too much for him.
 
I live in a small town about an hour south of Savannah, Georgia. My husband's first duty station was HHAF, so he wanted to retire here. Personally, I miss New York. I lived upstate, north of Syracuse. It's so hot here where I live, and so humid. It's also just a crappy town, all around. The only thing it has going for it is the beach. The rest of the town is just garbage. The crime is through the roof, there are no jobs except seasonal jobs, and our local water authority has got this place locked down so tight that everyone is squealing. We all average anywhere from $70 to $100 a month for water, and any new business that wants to come in has to pay an astronomical tie-in fee. We had a Hooter's bow out last month because our water authority wanted to charge them a $384,000 tie-in fee. So I had a well dug, and planned to tie in to my well for water, but since I live in a subdivision, it's not allowed. The guy who lives down the street can, but I cannot. Has nothing to do with the HOA or anything, either. Water authority rules.

I was born in Alabama, and lived in Huntsville for many years. I have not lived there in a very long time, though. As bad as the politics are in Georgia, they are worse in Alabama. But at least the college football is good.
 
Superfly said:
My husband says that about Colorado Springs. He misses it and wishes he could go back, but he has breathing problems, and I guess the altitude would just be too much for him.
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Come to WA.
 
lefty louie said:
I've been there, most beautiful part of the country for so many reasons, just too remote for my wife to enjoy.
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It is that.. but is is breathtaking. Even Fidalgo is special. Deception Pass...love walking that bridge.
 
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