The wife wants to move to Texas - We're Currently in Ohio

[uscra112]

Maybe Mom needs to come to you?

[uscra112]

Friend who moved to Wood River region in Idaho in 2010 can attest. Bought 20 acres and a house outside Hailey for $330K, getting offers north of a million now. Most obvious thing about the city people moving in? They're RUDE. Drive aggressively, push and shove in the supermarkets, park anywhere they feel like it, argue with store clerks, und-und-und. She's thinking of selling out already. Where to go? I'm for rural Ohio......warmer winters, for one thing, but not so hot that we need airconditioning in summer. No black flies, no mosquitoes, no deer flies, no 'gators, no poisonous snakes, no scorpions, crime rates very low, ditto property taxes, no water shortages, cheap and reliable electricity (still coal fired), and the Starbucks set hasn't discovered us......yet.

To the O.P. - you don't realize how good you have it!

[trebor44]

Looking at the 'tax bill' for many years, most of what is collected goes to 'education'. Why? It doesn't seem to have made much difference in the 'intelligence' of the USA population!

[uscra112]

Those school taxes get administered by school boards, and school boards are elected officials. VOTE. Especially in off-year election where they try to sneak bond issues and millage increases past us.

[Handloader109]

Those school taxes get administered by school boards, and school boards are elected officials. VOTE. Especially in off-year election where they try to sneak bond issues and millage increases past us.

I've noticed here in AR, that school elections, including bond issues are held in off year, off times like March, April, June when most folks look at elections in Nov. We need to change the way schools are paid for. 90% of folks with kids are renters. Yeah, they indirectly pay, but they don't write a check to the tax collector. And I miss MS where when you hit 65, your exemption went to 100%. At least they don't tax SS and my little pension.

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[uscra112]

Right. They do that here in Ohio, too. Only folks that take the trouble to vote in these "semi-secret" elections are teacher's union members and retirees like me. In the last few years the retirees have been winning, which leads to no end of grousing in the local newspaper.

[canyon-ghost]

You live right!

[canyon-ghost]

Small town middle of nowhere MN, 1 acre lot, older approx 1600 sq foot house, new garage, farm fields 2 sides, horse pasture across the street. Property taxes are $360/yr!

You live right!

[Cast10]

I would wait until after the mid-terms before I made my mind up……

[popper]

2k sq ft house in any metroplex is 5K$ min, mostly for schools. Plus extra fees on utilities.

[Finster101]

Some folks are giving you info, some folks seem to feel like they know what's best for you. It boils down to do what you and the misses want.

[lancem]

If I ever leave the New Braunfels area, I’m going to West Texas - generally around Big Bend. Alpine, Marathon, etc. Always liked that part of the state, and I can still get to a large city within an hour or so.

I'm 25 miles north of Terlingua, you better hurry cause it's getting crazy around here. Prices have gone sky high and everyone is wanting to move out of the city. I'm figuring in a couple of years there won't be any water and prices will go back down as the city folk go bust and leave.

[uscra112]

I like to tell my desiccated western friends that around here (SE Ohio) water is just a nuisance that we pay to get rid of.

[lancem]

I like to tell my western friends that around here (SE Ohio) water is a nuisance that we pay to get rid of.

I remember those days cussing the sump pump that quit on the rainy day. We've had almost 2" of rain this year, 3rd year in a row of below average amounts. We have enough roof to have been able to capture all of it, around 6000 gallons, we use around 1000 gallons a month so we're praying for rain to at least get us through the end of the year.

[uscra112]

I hope you're not taking that off an asphalt-shingle roof. Nasty chemicals get entrained in the water..

I do that, too, but my roof is slate. I've got a reliable well, but the water is very hard. Rainwater is soft.

[Texas by God]

What is this thing called rain?

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[uscra112]

In Texas it usually comes with a hurricane.

[Chainsaw.]

“The taxes are High”!! HAHAHA!! That’s rich y’all! Very funny!

[HWooldridge]

I'm 25 miles north of Terlingua, you better hurry cause it's getting crazy around here. Prices have gone sky high and everyone is wanting to move out of the city. I'm figuring in a couple of years there won't be any water and prices will go back down as the city folk go bust and leave.

I hear you! My son went to Sul Ross from 2004 to 2006 before switching to Angelo State but I always liked Alpine better San Angelo for scenery and climate.

[jonp]

Wait a bit if you can. Housing and land prices are about to crash. Last month contract cancelations reached 15% and prices in major cities after skyrocketing are going in the opposite direction. Those people who were buying homes $500,000 plus are now pulling out with the rise in mortgage rates and renting instead driving that market higher. I don't think it will be long before those premiums over asking price and bidding wars are over. In Raleigh, NC which has a scorching market as people are leaving the north and it's out of control progressives I just read a story that people should stop expecting 15-20 offers on a house. Contractors are noting building cancellations and even home supply stores are being very careful in credit extension for lumber and stuff going so far as to lower credit limits.

Wife and I are getting to the point of looking at 10-20 acres for retirement and are going to wait a couple of years for the crash to pick up foreclosed land somewhere. With the CARES Act foreclosure moratorium and eviction prohibition expiring at the same time inflation and mortgage rates are going up look for bargains to start being available and don't wait to snap them up.