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Originally Posted by hairmetal4ever
This poster is from Boston, so those prices won't scare him!!
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Well maybe not quite. The Boston real estate market has cooled off a lot since I left a few years back. And all the wags said it would go up forever.
I can't believe another soul wants to escape from that zoo. Sweet Mary say it is not true.
I also escaped from Massachusetts and they may still be looking for me.
A couple of things I would pass on.
Be very sure you keep super good records of all the accounts, details, etc that you close prior / during a move. That old line in the song; "You can checkout any time, but never leave." So, so true. Taxachusetts assumes nobody will ever leave and it is so, so programmed that way.
In particular if you are paying your car insurance by direct withdrawal from a bank account. If that account is still active they probably will try to continue billing just like you are still there, forever. Same with so many other accounts, things like telephone, cable TV, etc. You may go thru all the hoops, they will try to bill like you are still there. Even if you do everything correctly and by the book.
That thing about how you have to turn in your license plates before you can cancel your insurance can be a real hassle. You need the plates to drive to the new state as well as the insurance. Somewhere you switch to the new states plates / insurance and are left holding the bag how to cancel everything in MA. If you don't know, the old plates must be turned into the Registry, you get a slip of paper, give that to the insurance company, then in theory they will cancel the old insurance. DON'T ASSUME you can just run away. They can turn it all over to a collection agency.
I arranged with my insurance agent prior to leaving for me to mail him the plates and had to pay a fee for him to take them to the registry. All the while I was totally illegal in Ohio for having two insurances policy's active on the same car. The parent company will act like you never did it proper and continue to bill. My old agent and the bank finally stopped them after a couple more months.
If you think it is a zoo and fraud as a normal way of life, just try to leave. They will invent charges and give you a super inflated bill for the valid bills that are forwarded on normal closed accounts. SAVE all paper work, never let anything go without at least a Xerox.
It took me over a year to finally turn most of them off. Without the paperwork proof, you could be in for some big hassles. Big Brother does not give up easy. Even today I get phone calls saying "Vote for Me", they track you so well, the changed phone number means nothing, it is like you never left.
You might even find a warrant for your arrest in the national system because you did not show up for jury duty. I made a folder for the move and saved every scrap of paper possible, after totally planning it out exactly. Saved my bacon in so many ways. Don't take it lightly, they never seem to quit.
What if every state did things the way lovely Kennedyland does. We would not even need terrorists to need a Bureau of Home Land Security. Everybody that moved anywhere would be terrorized forever.
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Boston to Loveland
Good luck.
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