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On May 25, 10:42*pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:

And you have COL backwards. COL reflects incomes; where people make more,
things cost more.

Ed Huntress

It is you that has the COL backwards. The cost of living in Texas is
considerably less than the COL in New Jersey. For about $300,000 you
can get a 3000 sq. ft. house on an acre lot with a swimming pool in
Texas in Houston or Austin. Pay less than $6000 in real estate taxes
and no income tax. In New Jersey you can pay a bit more and get a
1300 sq. ft. house on about a 1/10 acre lot, no swimming pool, pay
slightly more in real estate taxes, and pay the highest state income
tax in the country. So that $40,000 income in Texas lets you live
better than a $80,000 income in New Jersey.

There is a reason that people do not move to New Jersey to retire.

Dan

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" wrote:

On May 25, 10:42 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:

And you have COL backwards. COL reflects incomes; where people make more,
things cost more.

Ed Huntress

It is you that has the COL backwards. The cost of living in Texas is
considerably less than the COL in New Jersey. For about $300,000 you
can get a 3000 sq. ft. house on an acre lot with a swimming pool in
Texas in Houston or Austin. Pay less than $6000 in real estate taxes
and no income tax. In New Jersey you can pay a bit more and get a
1300 sq. ft. house on about a 1/10 acre lot, no swimming pool, pay
slightly more in real estate taxes, and pay the highest state income
tax in the country. So that $40,000 income in Texas lets you live
better than a $80,000 income in New Jersey.

There is a reason that people do not move to New Jersey to retire.


They don't want to live in the same state as Ed?


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On Wed, 26 May 2010 05:04:59 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On May 25, 10:42*pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:

And you have COL backwards. COL reflects incomes; where people make more,
things cost more.

Ed Huntress

It is you that has the COL backwards. The cost of living in Texas is
considerably less than the COL in New Jersey. For about $300,000 you
can get a 3000 sq. ft. house on an acre lot with a swimming pool in
Texas in Houston or Austin. Pay less than $6000 in real estate taxes
and no income tax. In New Jersey you can pay a bit more and get a
1300 sq. ft. house on about a 1/10 acre lot, no swimming pool, pay
slightly more in real estate taxes, and pay the highest state income
tax in the country. So that $40,000 income in Texas lets you live
better than a $80,000 income in New Jersey.

There is a reason that people do not move to New Jersey to retire.

Dan

And a lot of NJ workers live here in PA to get away from those taxes,
even at $4.00 a gallon it's cheaper to make the commute across state
lines than live in NJ... per the family that bought my parents house
( 2006).

Thank You,
Randy

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There is a reason that people do not move to New Jersey to retire.


Say what you will about the South; Nobody moves NORTH to retire.

(Florida: Where I bought 20 fenced acres, an 8000sq.ft. barn, 1/2 acre
pond, two wells with pumps, and an 1800sq.ft. house [now 2600] nine years
ago for $118,000. Total taxes NOW are $3700; goes down to $2200 next year
with 12 acres in pasture leased out). *Thhhhppppt!*
(clay-topped road sucks, though G)

LLoyd