Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
Having lived through the largest reduction in tax rates in history, I am amazed at all the people who want to live in places with the lowest tax rates. I remember high quality public schools, free and inexpensive state universities, smoothly paved roadways that didn't cause my bikes to break, traffic law enforcement, clean parks with restrooms, cities without homeless people sleeping in doorways and oh-so-many things that more civilized Western societies take for granted. A few more bucks in my account won't improve the quality of my life nearly as much as those things.
Boom.
And from the perspective of someone who has spent most of their life in temperate, maritime climates, it is amazing to me that people can describe places with sub-zero winter, and 90-plus summer, temperatures as "neither too hot nor too cold". LOL.
Good thread, though, keep it coming. Any Americans here apart from BarrettsCV that plan to retire outside the US?