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dude, annual taxes are $3300 bones? Ouch. My house appraised at 150 and I pay $450 a year for my property tax
 
One-T said:
dude, annual taxes are $3300 bones? Ouch. My house appraised at 150 and I pay $450 a year for my property tax
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It includes all the school, hospital, etc stuff as well. Not sure if that is typical or not.
 
Question for any guys who travel a lot for work or work from home for their jobs:

I currently travel 75% of the time for work, 25% work from home. I was offered a new job working from home 80% traveling 20%. New job is 6% less pay. All other benefits, bonuses, etc are pretty similar.
 
One-T said:
dude, annual taxes are $3300 bones? Ouch. My house appraised at 150 and I pay $450 a year for my property tax
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You live in the middle of the sticks though. Move down closer to Charlotte and the taxes go up. I pay about .85 taxes on mine.
 
One-T said:
dude, annual taxes are $3300 bones? Ouch. My house appraised at 150 and I pay $450 a year for my property tax
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Here is the actual breakdown:

DAL CNTY
HOSP DIST
COLL DIST
SCH EQUAL
GR PR ISD
GR PR CITY
$261.83
$291.88
$107.35
$10.77
$1,752.58
$868.52

So half of it goes to the school district.
 
One-T said:
dude, annual taxes are $3300 bones? Ouch. My house appraised at 150 and I pay $450 a year for my property tax
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Dude, thats crazy, my house is appraised at $493,000 and my annual property tax is $4000. This is just for garbage and reccycling services.

ddxu said:
Question for any guys who travel a lot for work or work from home for their jobs:

I currently travel 75% of the time for work, 25% work from home. I was offered a new job working from home 80% traveling 20%. New job is 6% less pay. All other benefits, bonuses, etc are pretty similar.
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I travel for work, I have no idea why you would want to take that job for 6% less pay, unless the per diam was a ton higher but it doesn't sound like it is.
 
Paying 50% of my income to Uncle Eh would be a tough pill to swallow for me... unless I was chronically sick, then it would pay off.
 
ddxu said:
Question for any guys who travel a lot for work or work from home for their jobs:

I currently travel 75% of the time for work, 25% work from home. I was offered a new job working from home 80% traveling 20%. New job is 6% less pay. All other benefits, bonuses, etc are pretty similar.
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Is 6% worth the extra time at home and potentially less stress of traveling? I would take a 6% cut for the convenience of working from home and a better work/life balance.
 
SethO said:
Paying 50% of my income to Uncle Eh would be a tough pill to swallow for me... unless I was chronically sick, then it would pay off.
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Ya, its tough, but get sick once or have a sick kid and you will be praying that you lived in a place like this, but I don't want to get into the discussion.

ddxu said:
Question for any guys who travel a lot for work or work from home for their jobs:

I currently travel 75% of the time for work, 25% work from home. I was offered a new job working from home 80% traveling 20%. New job is 6% less pay. All other benefits, bonuses, etc are pretty similar.
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Sorry I read this wrong, yes, the new job is totally worth it.
 
mcook77 said:
Is 6% worth the extra time at home and potentially less stress of traveling? I would take a 6% cut for the convenience of working from home and a better work/life balance.
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coolbreeze said:
Ya, its tough, but get sick once or have a sick kid and you will be praying that you lived in a place like this, but I don't want to get into the discussion.

Sorry I read this wrong, yes, the new job is totally worth it.
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I think I would do that as well. Being able to work from home 80% of the time would be worth the 6% cut.
 
coolbreeze said:
Ya, its tough, but get sick once or have a sick kid and you will be praying that you lived in a place like this, but I don't want to get into the discussion.
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Your air is clean and that is another bonus.
 
You should move to Wisconsin. Our land is flat, but wooded. The beer flows like wine. Lots of cows for butter and cheese, which also means lots of cows for steak. Really nice golf season, for at least 6 months anyways. The winters are hell though, but that is why every bartender can make a brandy old fashion with their eyes closed.
 
SethO said:
Your air is clean and that is another bonus.
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Clean is something, we are trying to keep things clean so that we can get the Calloways here.
 
ddxu said:
Question for any guys who travel a lot for work or work from home for their jobs:

I currently travel 75% of the time for work, 25% work from home. I was offered a new job working from home 80% traveling 20%. New job is 6% less pay. All other benefits, bonuses, etc are pretty similar.
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Well, Not only will you lose out on 6% but I am guessing you will lose out on some per diems and mileage, which may have counted towards income. For me, I would chose the lesser traveling job. I travel quite a bit now and would love to not do that anymore.
 
Puttin4Bird said:
$450 a year?!? What kind of a mountain shack do you live in out there?
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yes, a year. Its awesome. I have a nice little cabin lookin place.
 
One-T said:
yes, a year. Its awesome. I have a nice little cabin lookin place.
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That is amazingly cheap! I've seen some pics you've taken for other reasons but your house looks very nice....$450 a year for taxes....WOW. Our's is right around $4000 or so.
 
One-T said:
yes, a year. Its awesome. I have a nice little cabin lookin place.
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Do you have to pay for school & hospital taxes, etc separately? If not, how are those services paid for?
 
Puttin4Bird said:
N.C. has a state income tax don't they? That explains part of it.
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Ahhh, that would make sense. Perhaps that is why our property taxes are higher to offset that.
 
mcook77 said:
Ahhh, that would make sense. Perhaps that is why our property taxes are higher to offset that.
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It's pretty funny how it might seem great and things in some places but really the tax and healthcare and all the other expenses seem to even out when you really get to comparing what everyone pays.
 
One-T said:
Well, Not only will you lose out on 6% but I am guessing you will lose out on some per diems and mileage, which may have counted towards income. For me, I would chose the lesser traveling job. I travel quite a bit now and would love to not do that anymore.
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I would lose out on mileage & per diem (which i use as tightly as possible). I've been traveling pretty much full time for the last 5 years, so needless to say, I'm looking forward to the possibility of working from home.
 
I just looked, between my wife and I, we payed just under 4K in state income tax last year.
 
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