bbb Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Things have been looking up for jobs lately. The IBM announcement a week or two ago. All the medical corridor stuff, etc. Seeing cranes downtown is pretty cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrags Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Things have been looking up for jobs lately. The IBM announcement a week or two ago. All the medical corridor stuff, etc. Seeing cranes downtown is pretty cool! yup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Love it! LoL... Ha: "Soccer is Great" thread. Yeah, you are right. What happened? One of the last posts had to be my wise crack about moving it to the soccer forum. Did they move it there?... I know there is no soccer forum. Here I am wise cracking w/bbb again... Watch, we here in Chicago will be frozen in till April! Please... Oh Snow Gods... Make it stop, I am just a wise cracking, simple man, trying to feed his family! You WERE the last one to post. I had an email that you posted and I hit the link and it said ERROR. That's frustrating! Well, you've gone and done it - #buffaloblizzard2 is in full force! Thunder and lightning earlier just to throw it all in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 You WERE the last one to post. I had an email that you posted and I hit the link and it said ERROR. That's frustrating! Well, you've gone and done it - #buffaloblizzard2 is in full force! Thunder and lightning earlier just to throw it all in there! LoL... All I said was: "Hey! Take it to the soccer forum, this is OTW!" Or something like that... LoL Yeah, I thought I was seeing things last night. There was some flashes of lightning and some thunder when it was just starting to change to snow... Pretty wild. My son asked: "Hey is that lightning!" I am like, I guess it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Things have been looking up for jobs lately. The IBM announcement a week or two ago. All the medical corridor stuff, etc. Seeing cranes downtown is pretty cool! I know a guy who specialized in Real Estate Investment Trusts. He says when you start to see lots of cranes it's time to sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guffalo Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I'm considering more tax friendly areas. When you can reduce your tax burden by 10% right off the top and then in other areas (such as property taxes) NYS is not even close to being an option. Oh and BTW your wife is much nicer than mine. At least yours laughed when you brought it up. Define a tax friendly area. I am looking at South Carolina and will be there next week scouting some properties (Myrtle Beach and Columbia). We may also take look in Savannah (Georgia) and Charleston, SC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I'm considering more tax friendly areas. When you can reduce your tax burden by 10% right off the top and then in other areas (such as property taxes) NYS is not even close to being an option. Oh and BTW your wife is much nicer than mine. At least yours laughed when you brought it up. Per Kiplinger - Least tax-friendly states: 1. California 2. Connecticut 3. New Jersey 4. New York - my combined Town/County/School tax alone is almost $6,000 Most tax-friendly states (for retirees): 1. Alaska 2. Wyoming 3.Georgia 4. Arizona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Define a tax friendly area. I am looking at South Carolina and will be there next week scouting some properties (Myrtle Beach and Columbia). We may also take look in Savannah (Georgia) and Charleston, SC. I first look at state income tax. That is something I have no control over. They just take that off the top. Then you need to look at property taxes that is one you don't have a ton of control over but you can reduce it by downsizing. Then you look at sales tax. This one you can control a bit more. Sure you have to buy **** but you can control your spending. Then I look at weather. ****ty weather can be very taxing. So where is this low cost utopia? I don't know I haven't looked that closely yet. Retirement is 5-8 years away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 They do have a program that reduces property taxes for retirees but I am not there yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Memphis @ #2 tells you all you need to know about the #1 City. Memphis is a pure hell hole that should be completely burned down and rebuilt -yesterday!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Define a tax friendly area. I am looking at South Carolina and will be there next week scouting some properties (Myrtle Beach and Columbia). We may also take look in Savannah (Georgia) and Charleston, SC. Like the smell of paper mills? Then you'll LOVE Savannah. Beautiful city but GAWD in the summer it stinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I know a guy who specialized in Real Estate Investment Trusts. He says when you start to see lots of cranes it's time to sell. I can believe that. I went to Phoenix in 2006. Cranes all over. Every one of the locals I talked to where bragging about how valuable their property had become. Well we all know how that worked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I would consider it seeing I'm getting older and all my family is there and I've been gone over 30 years. But I'd have to dump the wife first. I had the same excuse the last 12 years....not so anymore... Now I am just an utterless ship! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zevo Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 There really isn't another place I would rather live than buffalo....granted I've never lived anywhere else....but visited many.....ok maybe Aruba in retirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I had the same excuse the last 12 years....not so anymore... Now I am just an utterless ship! I this a TBD-ism? Sounds like the Coach. heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 I had the same excuse the last 12 years....not so anymore... Now I am just an utterless ship! You're just utterless. I'd !@#$ing sink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfanmiami(oh) Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Memphis @ #2 tells you all you need to know about the #1 City. Memphis is a pure hell hole that should be completely burned down and rebuilt -yesterday!. A little harsh perhaps but yeah Memphis is pretty rough. My company has an office in Memphis and I've spend more than a few nights there over the years. Beale st is cool, and yes there is great BBQ, but man there are some awful areas. Yes I know all big cities/metro areas have their own blemishes but for me Memphis, Gary, Detroit (and a handfull of other Michigan cities) are the pits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 (edited) Per Kiplinger - Least tax-friendly states: 1. California 2. Connecticut 3. New Jersey 4. New York - my combined Town/County/School tax alone is almost $6,000 Most tax-friendly states (for retirees): 1. Alaska 2. Wyoming 3.Georgia 4. Arizona Yet... In Will County, Illinois... My combined tax bill is also 6k (5,900). On a 150k house. Edit: In NYS, do you get garbage included in your tax bill... Here is a separate bill, private contractor. Edited March 13, 2014 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Yet... In Will County, Illinois... My combined tax bill is also 6k (5,900). On a 150k house. Four !@#$ing percent?? That's absurd. I pay $7200 on a $500k house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 You've got to question an article that states the Buffalo is the most affordable city in the US and finish the article with this: "That quote is pitched at employers (i.e., cheap labor costs). Sounds like a planted "story" by the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, actually. Earnings comparisons are really meaningless anyway, since they're based on averages and not position-specific. Cities with more headquarters personnel (translated "not Buffalo") have higher paid managers / senior staff etc that inflate their mean salary numbers. Hence, apples to pears to Buffalo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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