The taxes are deceptive, too: sure you pay less in federal income tax than in most places. Now you have to pay either state income tax or property tax and buy expensive health insurance. Now you're probably back on par with your home country.
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"oh but property tax can't be that bad" lol I had a 1800sf (167sqm) suburban house, 2bed 2ba w/garage & I paid OVER $600/MO in property tax on a *teardown property* (meaning, when I sold, the condition of the house had no residual value and was torn down & a new house built).
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around $8000K annually to the city to effectively rent a house I already owned outright - and that's a tax you pay unless you're so poor you can qualify for an exemption, so: a very regressive tax (this wasn't a second property or investment home but my only home, the one I lived in)
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and then when you understand how property tax in many/most places is used as a means of keeping the schools in white neighborhoods well-funded while denying resources to schools in Black neighborhoods it gets even uglier
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