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Not everyone in Texas like guns - but most understand that waiting 5 minutes for the police to get to you when someone's kicking in your door isn't going to end well.....so we tend to prefer to be able to take care of business if needed. Hmmmm....I DO drive a Ram 3500 Crew Cab...and my "sedan" is my 454-powered '58 Delray. LOL!!
Or, if your car breaks down on a dark, lonely Texas highway.
I used to laugh at the signs outside of bars and doctor's office stating no firearms allowed. It's a different world!
So far many of us have listed our expenses, but I do want to highlight what I think were the biggest surprises in coming to Westchester.
For me, it was electricity and heating oil. Electricity in NY state is outrageously expensive- around 23 cents per KwH. My parents live in Florida and get it for 11 cents per KwH. So we're more than double that.
Heating oil is also very expensive; not per gallon, just that you use a lot of it unless your house was built after the building codes started requiring 2x6s and tighter homes. My house is 1977 and I'm not kidding when I say I've had $800+ bills in January. I switched to heat pump which shifted the bill from oil to electric and dropped it a bit, but before I got solar we're talking about $600+ per month for heating in the coldest months. My house isn't that big, just 2,600 sq. ft. or so, about 300 square feet of which is a mudroom that I close the door to and keep at 55 degrees.
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So far many of us have listed our expenses, but I do want to highlight what I think were the biggest surprises in coming to Westchester.
For me, it was electricity and heating oil. Electricity in NY state is outrageously expensive- around 23 cents per KwH. My parents live in Florida and get it for 11 cents per KwH. So we're more than double that.
Heating oil is also very expensive; not per gallon, just that you use a lot of it unless your house was built after the building codes started requiring 2x6s and tighter homes. My house is 1977 and I'm not kidding when I say I've had $800+ bills in January. I switched to heat pump which shifted the bill from oil to electric and dropped it a bit, but before I got solar we're talking about $600+ per month for heating in the coldest months. My house isn't that big, just 2,600 sq. ft. or so, about 300 square feet of which is a mudroom that I close the door to and keep at 55 degrees.
So yes, it was my biggest surprise too. My house was built in 2007 and the cold still gets in.
When oil prices rose to $5 a gallon in 2008, my monthly oil bill over $1,200. My sister has natural gas in New Jersey. Her monthly gas and electric bills average $200 or less. Big difference!
So yes, it was my biggest surprise too. My house was built in 2007 and the cold still gets in.
When oil prices rose to $5 a gallon in 2008, my monthly oil bill over $1,200. My sister has natural gas in New Jersey. Her monthly gas and electric bills average $200 or less. Big difference!
Yes, so true! And while I can't compare because I haven't had natural gas in NY, but I have friends who are on natural gas from Con Ed and it sounds like the Con Ed natural gas prices are correspondingly also higher than NJ. I moved here from a 2,500 sq. ft. house in NJ and the electric + gas bill in January was ~$225 or so, and we kept the house at 73!
Some of the things I understand costing more but it's just so weird that the commodities are more expensive here too. I can only suspect that it's due to waste/greed/corruption in the government-backed monopolies.
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