2 day old <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< fresh off the magic conveyor belt kk As for your first comment I forgive you as not realizing what HOT NOW donuts taste like.
I live in Texas, and I would New Mexico since I plan to build an observatory there anyway. I would refuse to move to Oklahoma. I had a work project lasting 4 weeks some years ago in OKC. My goodness it was a miserable experience - very much like living in Lubbock.
I am living this now. I have lived in Oregon for 23 years and am about to move to Washington (for a job).
It would probably be Louisiana but it would have to be a rural area there is no way in hell I would live in New Orleans and its a huge out of my liking to live in a rural area.
Since most of you are from Texas...how does the state offset the whole "no income tax" perk? There's got to be a catch! Are property or sales tax higher than average?
I'm moving up to Northwest Arkansas (Fayetteville) in August. Impeccably beautiful part of the state. It's in the heart of the Ozark mountain range and there's considerable wealth in the area due to Walmart and other nationally headquartered companies; Tyson, JB Hunt, etc.
Be prepared to be kidnapped and video taped having your head sawed off with a dull table knife by a guy wearing ostrich skin boots.
Since i live in the netherlands i will answer this question for border country. Do you count when a country borders us though a ocean? If not i would move to germany. Belgium is just a messed up country. And germans the people i feel are most similar to the dutch from the areas i live in. Plus there are some nice organisations my wife and i can work at. If ocean borders do count i would move to England. Also nice opportunities and i speak the language much better
I had to take a Seaport out to El Dorado, after the hour-and-a-half of phone calls to the terminal and then to the customer account to see when the plane would arrive at Dallas, there was no visibility so we had to land in Memphis instead. For some reason the pilot told me his captain was taking care of lodging arrangements when I landed, I don't know why he thought that lie would make cold-calling hotels at 10:00 at night any more pleasant. I don't care what the rest of Arkansas is like and no disrespect to you, but no thanks.
Sales taxes aren't exceptionally low. But we also have a lot of state-owned land that was originally intended to garner income from agriculture so it was a lot of acreage. We struck oil on it in the early 1900s and fund our two largest university systems: Texas and Texas A&M, with the investment returns whereas most states have to rely on tax revenue for what's usually the 2nd or 3rd highest state expenditure. Having a large percentage of our working class as 1st generation immigrants probably minimizes our social services outlay, also with our concentrated refinery capacity east of Houston and re-emerging production in the West, Rio Grande and North, we're kind of like Detroit in the '50s with a lot of well-paying work ($60 - $80k/year) for guys with less than a bachelors; or maybe we're like Cali in the 1900s - 40s with lots of ag and oil wealth and space before the movie industry attracted massive domestic immigration. We also lack the density of similarly populated states, which I think keeps real estate down in Houston and possibly San Antonio.
