Well I jest when I say sunshine “tax” .
If your home cost $ 100,000 there it would cost $ 200,000 here etc.
There are exceptions like along the coast where your $ 100,000 home would cost anywhere from $ 500,000 to over a million in metro areas .
In my area you can find homes as low as $ 175,000 , but new 3 bed 2 bath 1800 sq ft go for $ 300,000 to $ 400,000 . Average price in my town is $ 236,130 , in my county the average is $ 295,000 . In the adjoining city of Redding the avg. is $ 324,000 .
When you consider the property tax is 10 % based on the selling price and can only go up 1 % a year it’s not a bad deal thanks to the 1977 proposition 13 law .
Back in ‘77 when I bought my first house I paid $ 53,500 the prop.tax the previous year was $ 425
Then the county sent me notice that the tax would be $ 1400 unless prop 13 passed then it would be $ 530 . I kept that house 29 years and the prop tax was only $ 1000 , thank you prop 13 .
Oh sure we have a high gasoline tax between the Fed and State close to $ 1.
Sales tax is just 7.25 % here more in metro areas .
So that gives you an idea what it’s like here .
