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How many times a year is your grown kid, esp if s/he has a family, going to come visit you, realistically? Unless wealthy, very few can afford a several-thousand mile trip (maybe with kids in tow) more than once a year. How many times are your best friends from "back home" going to visit, per year, really? The only realism is making new friends and talking with family via electronics. Which is fine, and what many who move would rather do. On the other hand, I have heard folks who moved far away saying that they see their kids now more often than when they lived several towns away. If you want to be happy and secure in your move, you have to know your own relatives and friends well enough to have the correct expectations.
Are you arguing for or against? I can't figure it out.
Did I read somewhere that Harrisburg is going broke??
I went to google images, and the downtown looks like center city Philly in a way.
I'm looking for a little BIG city..but if H-Burg is in deep doo-doo, I gues there's the detour sign.. thanks for the input
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but I think the AARP has the PA tax information wrong
Not sure what they said about taxes here. Moved to PA in January and pensions, Social Security and IRA withdrawals are exempt from all state taxes.
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Originally Posted by countryswan
Did I read somewhere that Harrisburg is going broke??
I went to google images, and the downtown looks like center city Philly in a way.
I'm looking for a little BIG city..but if H-Burg is in deep doo-doo, I gues there's the detour sign.. thanks for the input
Harrisburg is small. We moved to Center City looking for a big city as well and it exceeds expectations. Walk everywhere.
Kinda hard to figure. The reason I say this is because so many properties in Philly received 10 year tax abatements when they were developed (or re-devleoped). We are in a three year old high-rise condo and will pay less than $1000/year for the next 7 years until the abatement runs out. Then? Taxes are assessed when properties they are sold as I understand it, based on "market value" (which is determined to be some sort of odd formula I'm told no one can decipher).
Just for gins, I looked up several properties to give you an idea:
>List price of $315K taxed at $1099
>List price of $319K taxed at $2982
>List price of $549K taxed at $44646
>List price of $550K taxes at $5993
>List price of $810K taxed at $12465
>List price of $815 taxed at $3616
>List price of $825K taxed at $6407
See - little rhyme or reason. That said, even the outlier above (the $810K property) is assessed at rates well below what we were paying in Houston - a big surprise to me.
Not sure whether this helps or simply invites confusion.
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