When we lived just north of Albany NY, we had 11,500+ sq ft lot, house & land valued at $125K and paid just under $4K in school & property taxes. On top of that, there was 7.5% sales tax on everything except food and clothes. that means that the $30K SUV just went to $32.5K. I shudder to think what folks around Lake George pay! Here we have 1.5 acres off the lake, and we are just over half that tax rate.
No happy solution here, but I am glad I don't have to pay what we payed in NY.
