and deal with excise tax on your vehicle? Parking tickets at 2:30 am (even NYC is not that bad)? Lousy snow removal? I still like this place but don't make it out to be what it's not.
The excise tax is less than the parking tickets you'd get in NYC.
The parking tickets are less than the keyed hood you'd get in NYC.
The snow removal is lousy. But NYC ain't that great either.
And the taxes! Way lower than NYC, NJ, or most other places frum ppl live. State income tax is 5%. No local income tax. Sales tax is 6.25%. Property tax is 1% of assessed value (which from my very limited observations are about 2/3 of actual value), minus $2500 residential exemption--so on a million dollar house, figure assessed at 700 so tax is 7000 minus 2500 equals 4500 a year.)