[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by Cal-to-NH

Thanks camp guy. Appreciate the support. I have asked the broker showing us around and he says there are no problems because it's a high-mountain lake. I guess I feel better validating it with the year-rounders. The new flood plains are showing some areas and they are of course located near the feed-streams as far as I can tell - and they are very hard to interpret and navigate through....

So finally on the cost of living. For those one-dimensional people who think property tax is the alpha and omega, it's time to go to school. My income tax is 10%, what is yours? My electric bill is $500 a month - is yours? I filled-up today - gas was $2.60/gal for regular - is yours? My water bill - with rationing - is $380 a month - is yours? I have a pension - it is taxed in California at 10% - is yours? I have an annuity - but I was smart enough to put in in my 401K - when I take it out in California it is taxed at 10% - is yours? I have tax-free
muni-bonds, but if you don't get a California muni they will tax it at 10%, and last I checked there are 49 other states with municipal bonds, but I can't invest in them - can you? My cable bill is only basic TV and internet - it costs $206 a month (Time-Warner - one star customer rating. I've heard yours isn't that good either), is yours? My tax on a $1,.2M house is $12,500 a year - does that sound horribly different from a $1.2M home in Alton, Moultonborough, Tutonboro, Wolfboro? No, not that much. Do I have to even go into my Auto insurance? Try getting home-owners insurance in wildfire territory. Have you even seen the annual excise taxes for your cars? I bought a Toyota Tacoma last year and paid $3,700 state sales tax. And everything else has a sales tax at 9%. - including clothes. Even Massachusetts doesn't have the audacity to tax clothes. Should I keep going?

You should not be knocking NH about their overall tax burden on the resident. It is mind-boggling that you think the tax burden for the two states are in the same neighborhood. In fact they are not even in the same solar-system. And there are costs outside of taxes as described above that aren't even close to being comparable in the two states.

Wow! Just unbelievable what your being taxed on in California. Nice to hear the real facts from someone in the know!!

Welcome to NH!!!

Dan