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Originally Posted by Keager
holy crap you people pay a lot. My motorcycle insurance for a year is about $400. My plates are about $48. The property tax for my minisucle lot is about $2500. The house I am moving to is considerably more, and still in town, but the next town over. It belonged to family, and it was homesteaded (property taxes freeze at a certian age here) for $14000 - but that was for over 5 acres in town....
Things are crazy  expensive out east. Welcome to the midwest, the home & HQ of John Deere. |
Salaries generally reflect a cost of living allowance, so it really isn't that different. Except of course, those who manage to save while enduring a higher cost of living will have increased purchasing power should they choose to retire to an area with a lower cost of living...