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What’s the difference? It’s all really the Poconos.
Ouch! LOL. But you forgot; it's half Poconos and half West Virginia. I'll give you a hint what part I live in. We're using nailed-together 2 X 12's as a front porch step.
Ouch! LOL. But you forgot; it's half Poconos and half West Virginia. I'll give you a hint what part I live in. We're using nailed-together 2 X 12's as a front porch step.
I almost replaced it last summer, but decided it would cut into my redneck creds too much.
As for schools, as much as I love PA, we'll continue to make sacrifices so we can send our kids to school in this elitist area of NJ. I could care less if our high school "dropped" from number 18 to off the damned chart. What my area schools offer can't be changed by some random criteria-du-jour.
Ouch! LOL. But you forgot; it's half Poconos and half West Virginia. I'll give you a hint what part I live in. We're using nailed-together 2 X 12's as a front porch step.
I remember visiting my exh's family in the country outside Portland, Maine. You see a lot of houses with no front steps, just a front door several feet above the dirt.
My exh noticed and asked why, and his aunt replied, "Oh, people do that so they don't have to pay the whole hoggage." I loved that term. Basically, as long as there are no front steps, the house is still unfinished and so the taxes are lower.
That was back in the 80s. Don't know if it still holds.
I remember visiting my exh's family in the country outside Portland, Maine. You see a lot of houses with no front steps, just a front door several feet above the dirt.
My exh noticed and asked why, and his aunt replied, "Oh, people do that so they don't have to pay the whole hoggage." I loved that term. Basically, as long as there are no front steps, the house is still unfinished and so the taxes are lower.
That was back in the 80s. Don't know if it still holds.
18 inches is nothing for the Poconos. That’s not even up to the first step.
I remember visiting my exh's family in the country outside Portland, Maine. You see a lot of houses with no front steps, just a front door several feet above the dirt.
My exh noticed and asked why, and his aunt replied, "Oh, people do that so they don't have to pay the whole hoggage." I loved that term. Basically, as long as there are no front steps, the house is still unfinished and so the taxes are lower.
That was back in the 80s. Don't know if it still holds.
That's awesome. I would totally hack off my front steps if I could lower my property taxes
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I almost replaced it last summer, but decided it would cut into my redneck creds too much.
