Well, it just cancels out with real estate pricing.That's a really interesting map, thanks! Who knew the property tax rate in CA was so low?
Well, it just cancels out with real estate pricing.That's a really interesting map, thanks! Who knew the property tax rate in CA was so low?
Well, I'm in Southeastern PA paying over $7k in property taxes.
As a former New Englander (NYC area) I can tell you what I've noticed about the south.
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Hold the phone there, Bamaman. Although the picture I posted isn't a picture of my neighbor, my neighbor's hand ended up looking a lot like that.Ah, someone would have to be somewhere they didn't need to be to be bit by a poisonous snake. They're more afraid of us than we are of them.
My aren't you literal - thanks and good point. Been in Penn for 9 years.. 51 years on LI, true guess that makes a Pennsylvanian but it is only 100 miles to NYC - weather is very much the same. Any yes technically NY isn't part of New England but when it's 2 degrees out, windy and it just snowed a foot and your standing on the platform waiting for the LIRR @ 6:55AM and you've done it for a 30 years you really don't care. True it's worse in NE.
LI is beautiful in the summer, but too much congestion, over priced housing, taxes..etc
Rephrase for the close reader and the interest of accuracy --"I'm tired of those NY and Pennsylvania northern mid Atlantic winters..."
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One thing we can conclude is stereotypes abound, and can be found everywhere one looks.These debates break out regularly and are very entertaining...with no definitive conclusions.
We have BIG snakes in Texas.....then again, everything here is Big....so please don't relocate here.
One thing we can conclude is stereotypes abound, and can be found everywhere one looks.
and we don't have to work 2 part time jobs in retirement--like those in California. We can retire young and not have to work to age 75.
How well I know. My coworker quit his job because of the snakes we ran into while surveying the Addicks Reservoir northwest of Houston. Biggest snakes I've ever seen. I never had the desire to retire in Texas after that.
It's nice that our lower cost of living allows us to live well on savings/pensions, etc. and we don't have to work 2 part time jobs in retirement--like those in California.
When did NYC or southern Pennsylvania (you mention in the OP that you've "had it with New England winters - even here in southern Pennsylvania gloomy gray skies for 3 months and 2 degrees - no thank you.") become part of New England? Yankees, yes--but New Englanders?
When I lived in California for several years (North of LA), when CA "natives" would ask me where I was from, and I said, Connecticut, most did not know where that was. I remember one gal asking if it was in Europe.
Hilarious!! She must have really been something. I can't imagine not knowing where the 50 states are.
"Gag me with a spoon."
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As a born and raised "New Englander" from Connecticut I call people from NY and below and states like PA "easterners" if they live along the Atlantic coast or are east of the Mississippi River. That works all the way down to the Mason Dixon Line then they are "southerners" or "south easterners". It gets messy, but true New Englander's can handle it and know the difference.
When I lived in California for several years (North of LA), when CA "natives" would ask me where I was from, and I said, Connecticut, most did not know where that was. I remember one gal asking if it was in Europe.
Anything west of the Hudson River is camping out.
Boy, you said it!
Ever hear of the term "Valley Girl" ??
My DS lives in LA (was in SF before that) and is amazed at the number of people he has met who have no idea of geography outside of California. He's lived in NY, VA & MA.
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