Sorry about that Chief!
I looked up the latest tax info for Charlotte and it works like this:
Charlotte's combined county and city tax rate is $1.30 per assessed $100. the latest assessment was done 4 years ago. They were thinking of doing one this year but decided to wait until next year. So let's use an example.
A Charlotte Home "assessed" at $300,000 would pay ~$3900 a year in property tax. For $300,000 you can get a pretty nice house - about 3000 sq ft (minus a basement -but that's another thread) with all the amenities -granite countertops marble bathrooms etc. Costs of new construction run about $100 per square ft.
If you took a $300,000 (which doesn't buy you much) NJ home and "transplanted" it into Charlotte, you might find it would sell for $110,000. That's the big difference here. So your taxes on that "tranplanted NJ" home would run you $1430 a year.
I just consider that a similar-sized house with pretty much the same features will cost about 2.5 to 3 times in NJ what a house in the Charlotte Metro area would go for.
In Union County NC which is next to Charlotte, the fanciest town is Marvin which would resemble a hybrid cross of say... Ridgewood NJ and Colts Neck NJ. The tax on a $600,000 house there (which looks like a $2 million NJ House) would run like this:
600,000 @ .55 per hundred "Union County" tax = $3300
600,000 @ .09 "Marvin" Tax = $540
BTW - the county tax covers the cost of the schools.
So your tax bill on this lovely McMansion (prob 5000 to 6000 sq ft) would be $3840 a year. I hope this explains it a bit better!