In case anyone might be interested in relocating :-)
Selling our home with shop and getting ready to move later this summer.
http://www.glennloper.com/f-properties.html
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"Marty Escarcega" wrote in message
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In case anyone might be interested in relocating :-)
Selling our home with shop and getting ready to move later this summer.
http://www.glennloper.com/f-properties.html
Click on the link Country Living in the City Limits

Nice!

Jeepers - $1200 in taxes on a $445k house? We're nearly 10x that rate here
in the Chicago suburbs.

Do you have relatives working in the assessors office g?

"Marty Escarcega" wrote in message
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In case anyone might be interested in relocating :-)
Selling our home with shop and getting ready to move later this summer.
http://www.glennloper.com/f-properties.html
Click on the link Country Living in the City Limits

In article ,
"Mike Henry" wrote:

Jeepers - $1200 in taxes on a $445k house? We're nearly 10x that rate here
in the Chicago suburbs.

Do you have relatives working in the assessors office g?

Sounds high, we pay $400 taxes on a $337k place.

--
Free men own guns, slaves don't
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5357/

Sounds really low to me. I pay pretty close to $10 per $1000.

Must not have any local levies, school referendums, etc. to cover.

JW

Mike, same here in the Boston 'burbs.
I pay over $5,000 in yearly taxes on a $400K home.

Worse still, the town is now installing a sewer system where connection
will become mandatory for everyone, at a cost of $21,000 not including
plumbing connections to our homes, lift pumps, etc. (that's another
$6,000 or so).

I suspect that these extreme taxes are a result of about 1/4 of the
town residents being on the town payroll. Many other town employees
don't even live here, because they can't afford to pay the taxes and
commute in from New Hampshire or Western MA.

North Carolina and/or central Virginia are looking better to me each
each day.

Harry C.

wrote:
Mike, same here in the Boston 'burbs.
I pay over $5,000 in yearly taxes on a $400K home.

Worse still, the town is now installing a sewer system where connection
will become mandatory for everyone, at a cost of $21,000 not including
plumbing connections to our homes, lift pumps, etc. (that's another
$6,000 or so).

I suspect that these extreme taxes are a result of about 1/4 of the
town residents being on the town payroll. Many other town employees
don't even live here, because they can't afford to pay the taxes and
commute in from New Hampshire or Western MA.

North Carolina and/or central Virginia are looking better to me each
each day.

That's interesting. I spent a summer working at MIT in 2002, and most of
the guys working in the machine shop there lived out of the city because
of the housing cost. One lived in Salem, which if I remember rightly is
quite a way up the coast. Which part of Boston are you from? It's a
wonderful city but they certainly do spend a lot on it. Have they
finished that big underground road scheme to bury the expressway yet?
Unfortunately the same is happening in our successful cities too. A very
modest house within close to the centre of Cambridge or Edinburgh will
cost a fortune.

Best wishes,

Chris

"Christopher Tidy" wrote in message
...
wrote:
Mike, same here in the Boston 'burbs.
I pay over $5,000 in yearly taxes on a $400K home.

Worse still, the town is now installing a sewer system where connection
will become mandatory for everyone, at a cost of $21,000 not including
plumbing connections to our homes, lift pumps, etc. (that's another
$6,000 or so).

I suspect that these extreme taxes are a result of about 1/4 of the
town residents being on the town payroll. Many other town employees
don't even live here, because they can't afford to pay the taxes and
commute in from New Hampshire or Western MA.

North Carolina and/or central Virginia are looking better to me each
each day.

That's interesting. I spent a summer working at MIT in 2002, and most of
the guys working in the machine shop there lived out of the city because
of the housing cost. One lived in Salem, which if I remember rightly is
quite a way up the coast. Which part of Boston are you from? It's a
wonderful city but they certainly do spend a lot on it. Have they finished
that big underground road scheme to bury the expressway yet? Unfortunately
the same is happening in our successful cities too. A very modest house
within close to the centre of Cambridge or Edinburgh will cost a fortune.

Best wishes,

Chris

yes. http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/index.html. unfortunately it leaks. no
telling how long it'll last.

regards,
charlie
http://glassartists.org/chaniarts

In article . com,
"jw" wrote:

Sounds really low to me. I pay pretty close to $10 per $1000.

Must not have any local levies, school referendums, etc. to cover.

No colleges in this county, that usually keeps taxes low. Lots of rich
retirees too!

--
Free men own guns, slaves don't
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5357/

Nick Hull wrote in news:nhull-AA9BE6.17211120052005
@corp.supernews.com:

In article . com,
"jw" wrote:

Sounds really low to me. I pay pretty close to $10 per $1000.

Must not have any local levies, school referendums, etc. to cover.

No colleges in this county, that usually keeps taxes low. Lots of rich
retirees too!


Plenty of colleges around, there is no secondary property tax in Mesa
(yet). Only County tax. I expect the taxes will be going up in the next
couple years but they are pretty reasonable. Mesa is just East of Phoenix.

"jw" wrote in message
ups.com...
Sounds really low to me. I pay pretty close to $10 per $1000.

How about $20 per $1000? That's what it costs on Long Island.

Must not have any local levies, school referendums, etc. to cover.

JW

Chris, I live in the town of Chelmsford, roughly 30 miles NW of the
City of Boston.

I belive that what they call the Cental Artery and Tunnel project is
now complete, at least I have traveled through it a number of times.
Unfortunately, it has developed some serious water leaks and now many
local people avoid using it (including my wife).They're afraid that
some day the area near South Station will undergo some sort of a
catastrophic collapse since it is beneath sea level in parts.

Kindest regards, Harry C.

Chris, I live in the town of Chelmsford, roughly 30 miles NW of the
City of Boston.

I belive that what they call the Cental Artery and Tunnel project is
now complete, at least I have traveled through it a number of times.
Unfortunately, it has developed some serious water leaks and now many
local people avoid using it (including my wife).They're afraid that
some day the area near South Station will undergo some sort of a
catastrophic collapse since it is beneath sea level in parts.

I hope the leaks in the tunnel just prove to be teething problems. Is
the raised expressway still open or has it been demolished? It seems
like such a good idea to bury the expressway, so I hope it all works
out. It should add to the open and spacious feeling in Boston, which I
love. I hope to be able visit the city again sometime!

Best wishes,

Chris

On Sat, 21 May 2005 22:46:18 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Tidy
wrote:

Chris, I live in the town of Chelmsford, roughly 30 miles NW of the
City of Boston.

I belive that what they call the Cental Artery and Tunnel project is
now complete, at least I have traveled through it a number of times.
Unfortunately, it has developed some serious water leaks and now many
local people avoid using it (including my wife).They're afraid that
some day the area near South Station will undergo some sort of a
catastrophic collapse since it is beneath sea level in parts.

I hope the leaks in the tunnel just prove to be teething problems. Is
the raised expressway still open or has it been demolished? It seems
like such a good idea to bury the expressway, so I hope it all works
out. It should add to the open and spacious feeling in Boston, which I
love. I hope to be able visit the city again sometime!

Best wishes,

Chris

I always assumed all the tunnels in Boston were suppose to leak and
2/3rds of the ventilation fans should be off.

Oh, and the beams of bridges should have rusty holes through them.
That's so you can get a better view of the water while bouncing in
gridlock.

It took me about an hour of getting in that state the first time to
realize that it was like driving in Mexico. The more $ that a car
costs the more they will yield for you.

Sunworshipper wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2005 22:46:18 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Tidy
wrote:


Chris, I live in the town of Chelmsford, roughly 30 miles NW of the
City of Boston.

I belive that what they call the Cental Artery and Tunnel project is
now complete, at least I have traveled through it a number of times.
Unfortunately, it has developed some serious water leaks and now many
local people avoid using it (including my wife).They're afraid that
some day the area near South Station will undergo some sort of a
catastrophic collapse since it is beneath sea level in parts.

I hope the leaks in the tunnel just prove to be teething problems. Is
the raised expressway still open or has it been demolished? It seems
like such a good idea to bury the expressway, so I hope it all works
out. It should add to the open and spacious feeling in Boston, which I
love. I hope to be able visit the city again sometime!

Best wishes,

Chris


I always assumed all the tunnels in Boston were suppose to leak and
2/3rds of the ventilation fans should be off.

Oh, and the beams of bridges should have rusty holes through them.
That's so you can get a better view of the water while bouncing in
gridlock.

It took me about an hour of getting in that state the first time to
realize that it was like driving in Mexico. The more $ that a car
costs the more they will yield for you.

Yes, I remember the bridge I walked across to see the USS Constitution
was getting a bit rusty!

Chris

Ouch! Especially considering what I have heard an "average" house
costs around there.

JW

It took me about an hour of getting in that state the
first time to realize that it was like driving in
Mexico. The more $ that a car costs the more they
will yield for you.

The first time I drove in Boston, I was in a '72 AMC
Gremlin (this was in the 80's) that was half red primer.
I never had a problem getting an openning in traffic,
and I kept wondering why everyone had told me Boston
drivers were hard to deal with... :^)

--Glenn Lyford