BA>>>>> Plattsmouth, over a 29 year period my property taxes went
 BA>>>>> up over 1,000 percent (from about $80/year to over
 BA>>>>> $900/year, between 1976 and 2005); this on an 825 square
 BA>>>>> foot hovel that was built in about 1880 on a lot that
 BA>>>>> measured 44 x 150 feet (less easements).  The tax on the
 BA>>>>> place is probably over a grand/year today.

 BK>>  Wait a minute? Where is Plattsmouth?

 BA> About a mile south of the confluence of the Platte and
 BA> Missouri Rivers, on the Nebraska side of the Missouri.  The
 BA> mouth of the Platte River, as it were.

 Ok, it sounded like someplace in New Hampshire or Massachusetts
 or some such place.

 BK>>>>  A hovel? Then move to Ohio. I pay more than that, but I have a
 BK>>>>  larger and better house. Except the portion where my computers
 BK>>>>  are kept, my wife does have something to say about that.

 BA>>> I moved to Iowa.  I pay lower property taxes (in dollars)

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 BK>>  Oh, I had thought that was the house you were living in now.
 BK>>  Wasn't aware you had moved from there.

 BA>>> the effective property tax rate in Plattsmouth was *five
 BA>>> times* the effective rate here in rural Mills County.

 BK>>  And does rural Mills county have the services Plattsmouth has?

 BA> AAMOF it does.  All of them.

 Then you followed my advice... pre-emptively.

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 BA> FWIW the gravel road in front of my house is in better
 BA> condition than many if not most of the paved arteries in
 BA> Omaha.

 Not much truck traffic?

 BA> Mills County grades the road at least once a month and they

 Once a month? They must not have a lot to do.

 BA> just laid down a couple of inches of new crushed rock.  The
 BA> road is usually plowed free of snow within an hour or two
 BA> of the end of snowfall, and sometimes while it's still
 BA> falling.  In most of the city of Omaha, especially the
 BA> eastern (older) parts of
 BA> the city, snow is removed by solar heat, not city snow
 BA> plows.

 BK>>  Does it have the cost of living?

 BA> Except for property taxes.  State income tax is lower than
 BA> Nebraska's, too (they're trying to rectify that oversight);
 BA> and Iowa has about 50% more people than Nebraska.

 BK>> The infrastructure?

 BA> Actually it's better than Nebraska's in general and
 BA> Plattsmouth's in particular.

 Like I said, you took my advice... pre-emptively.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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