• glockenspiel@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    No, $40k/yr in property taxes is insane unless your parents own several mansions, even for Texas where the highest property tax rates are around 2.5%. Even if you tack on millages and bonds and other things there’s no way it gets near that.

    There’s a lot of bad takes and clear misinformation from disaffected people in this thread. Stuff like this should be obvious.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      For the city. Then double the city rate for the school district, then add some more for the MUDs and the County and the Health district and the Emergency services district. Shit adds up fast, and when you buy a house new for 180 grand and a few years later it’s valued at 700 grand, you have to move because you can no longer afford to pay the taxes.