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Let me tell you what it is like living in a red state.
- I pay 3% state income taxes, versus 13.3% in California and potentially 16.8% in NYC
- Property taxes lowest in the country. A typical 2,000 square foot middle class home will pay about $750 a year.
- No mass transit that breaks down all the time
- Massive economic development; everyone wants to move here
- People are civil to each other on roads because everyone has guns in their cars
- You generally don't hear swearing in public (or even private) places
- No spitting, littering, and certainly no crapping on the sidewalk
- The homeless drug addicts live in the woods and don't panhandle you
- There's a bad section of town, but if you don't go in it, you have practically zero chance of being victim of a crime. And the bad section isn't that bad.
- You're more likely to hear a racial slur in New York than you are here
- Politicians are fighting over how fast to lower taxes
- Education is better while spending half as much per student
- Still a healthy discourse--in spite of all the Trump stickers on cars, there are No Kings rallies here, too, though people mostly ignore them
- Real estate values going up, not down
- Developments with thousands of houses going in all over the place
- 235 days of sunlight a year. 110 in NYC.
The downside? Almost impossible to get an abortion, but you can just go to another state if you're motivated enough.
Blue states are so screwed.
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