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People are moving more because of the high cost of housing in blue states, not usually high taxes. Usually density causes people to be more liberal, in the rural states people arent exposed to as many differences that question their opinions.
The blue states tend be more dense, higher housing demand and more land constraints then the red states which are usually more rural, have much more land to built on and have much less housing demand.
I am sure Boston and Seattle are not losing sleep because everybody is going pack up and move to Fort Worth, Texas but wait any one here live in Boston or Fort Worth by chance? I know for a fact Boston and Seattle has lower property tax rates then Fort Worth. I guess Republican Texas no income taxes look nice but the burden has been sent over to the property tax bills.
I think Republicans at the national level are different then at the state level.
Nationally they are more libertarian, but at the state and local levels they can compete with each other on spending.
Besides I am sure even though Kentucky votes Republican at the national level, they are Democratic at the local and state level.
Alot of times Democrats at the local and state can be more competitive even if its a Republican city, county, state. Democrats when elected in heavily Republican states tend to try to compete with Republicans on taxes because of the stigma of them being tax and spenders.
Nebraska is a Republican State (3rd most red behind Utah and Idaho) and has very high tax rates. 6.87% income tax after 26,000 (income taxes start at a much lower level and lower rate), most city and state combos have a 7% sales tax and property tax rate of up to 2,363 per 100,000 dollars in one Republican Omaha suburb, if you have a brand new 3 bedroom 2,500 square foot house in the Omaha area its gonna likely be more then 6,000 dollars in property tax. Also dont forget the wheel tax and property taxes on cars in Nebraska also! If your a tourist in Omaha dont forget to add on that 16% hotel tax
Utah also isnt chincy on taxes either! They are a high tax state also! As Republican as it gets also.
North Dakota is another Republican State, Republicans control the legislature and property tax rates are in excess of 2,000 dollars per 100,000 property value. Democratic St. Paul, Minnesota is half that rate.
If you look the per-capita incomes and wages per job they are the highest in blue states (MA, NY, NJ) and lower in red states (UT, ID, TX)
flea flea the democrates and run to the republacants!
Man, you used my word before I got here! As I was reading the thread titles and saw this one, 'Republicants' immediately popped up in my mind. That's a cute word that needs to be used during the next election.
I just don't think they would be happy here. It is too hot, people too simple, no culture, and there are scorpions, spiders and palmetto bugs! They will attack. So just pass us by...
It is amazing how partisan and simple minded some threads are.
And this on a site about relocating... the bigger American cities, particularly the older ones of the Northeast and the big West Coast ones are very expensive places to buy a home. Period.
Have you compared homes prices of DC.NYC/Boston/San Diego/LA/SF/Seattle with Louisville? Even Dallas and Atlanta are bargains.
We're talking differences of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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