i feel bad for anyone who doesnt live in LA (San Diego: public school, tax rates)

[jamills21]

Yo...Where did all these people come from? Some random posters in here checking up on a place they don't care for? hmm.....

[PDF]

Originally Posted by jamills21

Yo...Where did all these people come from? Some random posters in here checking up on a place they don't care for? hmm.....

Perhaps if the OP made some valid statements or backed up his ridiculous statements. But at least for me, I still care about LA. The OP just has no idea what he's talking about.

[genjy]

Originally Posted by jamills21

Yo...Where did all these people come from? Some random posters in here checking up on a place they don't care for? hmm.....

Kind of like how I lurk the Nebraska forum and jump at any opportunity to vent about Omaha, which I admittingly know nothing about.

[mapmd]

Originally Posted by lapetiteruse

Highest income tax is not actually true. DC, VA and MD all have higher. I know because I just moved to the MD suburbs of DC. I'm paying $1000 more a year in income tax than I did in LA. That's on $75k. Car registration is prob correct though. My car insurance went up $20 a month for MD. There are more state mandated coverages in other states. Any insurance company will tell you that CA has the least requirements.

Maryland's HIGHEST state income tax rate is 5.75.

The vast vast vast vast majority of people pay 4.75% though.

Maryland's single filer table:

Single
2%>$0.00
3%>$1,000
4%>$2,000
4.75%>$3,000
5%>$100,000
5.25%>$125,000
5.5%>$150,000
5.75%>$250,000

Notice the huge gap between 3k and 100k. That's a big bracket and encompasses a lot of people.

Meanwhile:
California's single filer table:

Single
1.0%>$0
2.0%>$7,582
4.0%>$17,976
6.0%>$28,371
8.0%>$39,384
9.3%>$49,774 YOU (assuming single)
10.3%>$254,250
11.3%>$305,100
12.3%>$508,500
13.3%>$1,000,000

I'm sure most individual workers in California are going to be paying the same 9.3% you are paying. That 49.7k to 254k bracket encompasses the vast majority of people, even in California.

Obviously you are paying a lesser rate on your income before that 49k, but it is still going to be much, much higher than what Maryland offers. In MD I don't even bother with what gets taxed at 2, 3, or 4% since it's a negligible difference (about $130-ish), but in your case at 75k much of your income is being taxed at 4%, 6% (already higher than our highest), and 8% (which is still huge), and those dollar amounts ratchet up fast. You're still having 25k taxed at your highest rate.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by bpeeps

The resident OC lover LA hater is back. This post is legitimately scraping the random scum off the bottom of the ocean, bubbling it back up to the surface of the forums. Well done, OP.

He thinks LA is a separate, urban city from LA lol!

[bpeeps]

Originally Posted by jamills21

Yo...Where did all these people come from? Some random posters in here checking up on a place they don't care for? hmm.....

I'm enjoying the irony of it all. All of these random posters from other cities popping up in the Los Angeles forum to talk crap and tell us how stuck up, mean, hateful, "mentally wrong" and annoying we are all. Pretty funny they're too stupid to realize the stereotypical views they hold of Angelenos are actually true of themselves in this instance.

[imbored198824]

I'm just sorta amazed at the amount of superiority some of you think you have. I mean I would never post a thread like this saying why my area is so much better than everywhere else.

[bpeeps]

Originally Posted by imbored198824

I'm just sorta amazed at the amount of superiority some of you think you have. I mean I would never post a thread like this saying why my area is so much better than everywhere else.

And I would never go from the Los Angeles forum to the Missouri one to talk shїt. To each their own.

Originally Posted by PDF

Perhaps if the OP made some valid statements or backed up his ridiculous statements. But at least for me, I still care about LA. The OP just has no idea what he's talking about.

It was pretty clear for me that the OP loves Los Angeles, posted a thread about it in the LA forum (not some other cities forum to start drama), and isn't serious about it overall. It came off pretty hyperbolic and in jest and the random people are taking it too seriously.

[moonsparkle]

Originally Posted by rs913

I'm also starting to think this whole line...

....you know, the "LA is the greatest city on earth and everyone who hates us just wishes they could be basking in the southern CA sunshine with all the gorgeous people" line....

.....is something people tell themselves just to convince themselves the high prices and endless gridlock and increasingly grungy surroundings and obnoxious attitudes are worth it.

It's in sharp contrast to places like Austin, Denver, and Portland, where people have also express a lot of civic pride, but where it seems to come from a happier place of being genuinely satisfied with where one lives.

One of the most refreshing things about LA is the lack of civic bragging to the point it becomes a modern-day cult.

I lived in a city like that before, and everything, I mean everything revolves around some nonstop pandering to the city regarding how it's now the best in the world for things ranging from bowling to sushi to local art.

In LA, people already know it's LA, there's no need to try and prove anything. There's also not the sensitivity other cities have if someone says they don't like even the slightest thing about it.

[radiolibre99]

Yes LA natives don't brag about itself like other people in cities do. Sometimes I think they don't brag enough and let other people unfairly trash LA.