[Lowerdeck]

Woodstock does get a bit of help due to the Academy - parents from neighboring towns helping pay for the school operations there. Volunteer fire departments + no local police force also contribute, so you don't pay as much in services. There are a couple larger businesses in South Woodstock, which help the tax base.

[JViello]

Originally Posted by Lowerdeck

Woodstock does get a bit of help due to the Academy - parents from neighboring towns helping pay for the school operations there. Volunteer fire departments + no local police force also contribute, so you don't pay as much in services. There are a couple larger businesses in South Woodstock, which help the tax base.

Interesting because last I checked it was crazy low. Something like 8 or 10.

I figured it was the "Greenwich factor" due to the farms there that are worth a ton so they have a low mill rate to not totally soak the people with 30K tax bills.

[Lowerdeck]

Not that low. It's 17.92 right now, according to the town website.

[Rich Lee]

Low mill rates don't necessarily mean low taxes.

[HeadedWest]

Originally Posted by Tetto

Hey JV,

I like your plan, but like others have mentioned, NH is slowly (and gathering speed) turning into a MA or CT.

One thing you might do is to wait until November to see what happens in the NH elections this year. You'll have a better picture then if the trends are more likely to accelerate or slow down or even turn around.

[JViello]

Originally Posted by Lowerdeck

Not that low. It's 17.92 right now, according to the town website.

I think the list I saw was from 2006. That would explain it. Oh well, I knew it was too good to be true. LOL

Originally Posted by Rich Lee

Low mill rates don't necessarily mean low taxes.

I agree, that's why I was looking for the "surprise".

Originally Posted by HeadedWest

One thing you might do is to wait until November to see what happens in the NH elections this year. You'll have a better picture then if the trends are more likely to accelerate or slow down or even turn around.

EEEXCELLENT point.

[Yankeerose00]

I don't know enough about NH to say whether it's good to move there, but I want to say that I think asking for opinions and suggestions is a fabulous idea. So many times, it can be a total stranger who points something out to you that you hadn't considered. There are so many things to consider when moving that you can't possibly think of everything.
I wish the state could get a grip on taxes so it didn't make people feel like they had to move. The taxes remind me of the housing boom. Home prices kept going up, up, up years ago that they had no place to go but crashing back down. The taxes have got to slow down at some point. This state has town that are over 200 years old, some towns over 300 years old. Yet most people will tell you that it's been in the past 10 years that taxes have doubled. So town expenses doubled in the past 10 years?
But anyway, keep asking around. I don't know how people moved to a new state before the days of the internet!